Holiday Edition: Children’s Books

Books, books, books.

IAPR Fellow, shares a personal sketch of his career in statistical pattern recognition. At the end, he poses questions to entice further research. Chart of some upcoming IAPR and non-IAPR workshops, conferences, and summer schools of interest to the I APR community. The views expressed in this newsletter represent the personal views of the authors and not necessarily those of their host institu...

Holiday musings.

A M d his Editor’s Page is being written during the Christmas reak, a traditional period of family reunions, relaxation, ecreation, and reflection. It is often a time when people tep back and try to put the daily activities in which their ives are immersed into a broader perspective. In that spirit, thought I would share with you some of my musings uring this time. The first issue that occurred...

William Cooper's `A catalogue of chymicall books 1673–88'. A verified edition

The reasons are clear enough. Industrial centres were not, in reality, wastelands of anomie and alienation, but thriving communities in which close living, plentiful work, and high wages gave the new proletariat reasons for living, not dying. Increasingly, the most dramatically suicide-prone in Victorian England were old men-and male figures were notably higher than female-superannuated, and of...

Women's Holiday Fund

Sir,?May we once more through the columns of your paper call attention to the valuable work that is being done by the Women's Holiday Fund on behalf of those whose lives are passed in dismal surroundings and weighed down by heavy responsibilities and anxieties ? It is not sufficiently realized how great are the demands made upon the strength and courage of the working woman, and that she is wor...

Constructions on Holiday