A March Past: Reminiscences of Elizabeth Randolph Preston Allan

Reminiscences

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Randolph Blake

which enables researchers to examine the contents of hundreds of bamboo crates packed with dinosaur bones that have remained unopened since they were brought by ship almost a century ago. Specimens such as a finely written 16th century log book and museum director Reinhold Lienfelder’s personal favourite, a sea-foamcoloured cabinet full of rare corals, have been restored. And items with a darke...

VISUAL COMPETITION Randolph Blake

The human brain, although renowned for its awesome computational powers, lapses into profound confusion when it receives conflicting views of the visual world. Consider, for example, the so-called AMBIGUOUS FIGURES presented in FIG. 1. The optical input to vision remains unchanged, and yet the resulting perceptual interpretation vacillates over time between alternative views — the behaviour cal...

A Review of the past Year, with Some Reminiscences of Cholera and Tropical Fevers

and interest of the work done during the last session. Notwithstanding the deterrent effect of an unusually cold and prolonged winter, the meetings were well attended, and several of the most important topics of epidemiological science were brought before us in papers of great value and interest, and in the profitable discussions t'hat followed. Of such I may enumerate, Cholera as it has appear...

The dissertation of Randolph