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ON LINEAR UPPER SEMI-CONTINUOUS COLLEC- TIONS OF BOUNDED CONTINUAf BY WALLACE ALVIN WILSON 1. Introduction and notation. If T = {t} denotes a closed set of points and with each point t there is associated a unique bounded continuum X(or Xt) in such away that (a) XtXt =0 if t^t, and (b) at each point t=r of T the upper closed limit of Xt as t— r is a part of XT, we say that X=f(t) is an upper semi-continuous function in T. The collection of con- tinua {X} is also known as an upper semi-continuous collection of continua. We say that X=f(t) is a minimal upper semi-continuous function in T if there exists no upper semi-continuous function ¥=g(t) such that at every point t,Y c X and at some point Y^ X. Examples of this concept are given elsewhere. Î The following notation will be convenient. If X =f(t) in T and M =23 [X], we write M = F(T). If T is a bounded continuum and/(¿) is upper semi-con- tinuous, it is obvious that 717 is a bounded continuum; in this case we say that X is an element of M. If T is a simple arc ab, M = F(ab) will be called a generalized arc, or simply an arc if no confusion is caused. This may be denoted by XaXb and the elements Xa and X¡, will be called the ends.