Except for reference to "finely divided pigments [sic] giving the cytoplasm [of melanocytes] a tan, dusty appearance," the changes cited do not permit a melanoma in situ to be distinguished from some lesions of Spitz's nevus in which abnormal melanocytes are housed entirely within epidermal and adnexal epithelium. The assertion that the melanocytes of melanoma are marked by uniformity and lack of striking pleomorphism, although patently incorrect, will be invoked subsequently, in parrot fashion, by several other authors who wrote about the subject.