In a recent paper E. J. McShane [3]2 has given a theorem which is the common core of a variety of results about Baire sets, Baire functions, and convex sets in topological spaces including groups and linear spaces. In general terms his theorem states that if J is a family of open maps defined in one topological space Xi into another, X2, the total image JiS) of a second category Baire set S in ...