Correspondence [F. W. Palmer]

Major F. W. Cragg

It is with the deepest regret that we learn of the tragic death of Major F. W. Cragg, i.m.s., from typhus fever at Lahore on the 23rd of April, 1924. Major Cragg's death adds another name to the long but brilliant list of scientific investigators who have lost their lives in the prosecution of medical enquiries for the benefit of humanity. He died as truly on active service as did any officer k...

F/W e+e- INTERACTIONS*

INTRODUCTION The field of e+e-interactions has provided a great deal of excitement in the past few years. 1-9 Primarily, interest has centered around the reaction +-ee-hadrons. This reaction is particularly attractive because we believe in electromagnetic perturbation theory, which implies that the cross section for hadron production is dominated by one photon annihilation of the electron and p...

William Palmer

of crime ! He fell by the hand of a friend and boon companion. Six months after, on the 27th of May, 1856, providentially for the ends of justice and the interests of society, the perpetrator of this foul murder was convicted and sentenced to execution; and, on the 14th of last month, he, in the presence of 50,000 persons, suffered an ignominious death upon the scaffold. We might well leave him...

Robin Palmer

This article focuses on struggles to secure and defend the land rights of the poor in Africa. A very brief introduction sketches the impact of liberalisation on land in Africa, then looks at the deeper context of land reform, and at the current role of donors. The article goes on to look at detailed case studies of Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa and examines reasons for successes and failu...

F . Pfeiffer , Ulm W . D . Hetzel , Ulm