Napier Tercentenary Celebration

The evolution of the animals: introduction to a Linnean tercentenary celebration.

Celebrating 300 years since the birth of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), a meeting was held in June 2007 to review recent progress made in understanding the origins and evolutionary radiation of the animals. The year 2008 celebrates the 250th anniversary of the publication of the 10th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae, generally considered to be the starting point of zoological nomenclature. With...

The Napier Type System

Persistent programming is concerned with the construction of large and long lived systems of data. In designing and building persistent object systems, we are attempting to regularise the activities that are performed on data by programming languages, operating systems, database management systems and file systems. We have identified the following areas of research which we are investigating in...

Celebration.

The Association of Nurse Education is celebrating a day in which many of the aspirations of nurse education campaigners over 50 years have been fulfilled.

Dr. L. Everard Napier

Proceedings of the Tercentenary Congress 1981