Professor R. B. Elliott and Dr. P. G. Robinson comment as follows

Professor G. R. Hargreaves

Dr R P Warin

Obituary British dermatology and the Bristol medical community suffered a grievous loss on 1.7.92 when Bob and Anne warm vvere both killed in a car crash near Salisbury, while they were travelling to the Bournemouth Meeting of the British and he and Anne had been such central figures in the Association for so many years that it was difficult to believe he Meeting could continue in their absence...

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This paper analyzes a certain class of combinatorial board games that includes Ayo, Tchoukaillon and Modular N–queen. We refine the existing results by providing simple and intuitive proofs using abstract combinatorics, and also reveal some interesting game positions.

Professor Dr. Richard Bruynoghe

In 1921, Richard Bruynoghe and his student Joséph Maisin published on the first use of bacteriophages in a phage therapy context. At that time, Bruynoghe (a medical doctor) was affiliated as a professor at the KU Leuven (Belgium) for just over a decade, within the Bacteriological Institute which he founded and led. After a distinguished career (he was acting mayor of the city of Leuven-Belgium ...

Reply to Comment by Briere and Elliott

M. R. Nash, T. L. Hulsey, M. C. Sexton, T. L. Harralson, and W Lambert respond to J. Briere and D. M. Elliott's (1993, this issue) comments regarding their study (1993, this issue). The investigation was in no way designed or presented as a causal analysis; covariance analysis is an acceptable means of identifying and controlling for important mediating variables. The authors cite some methodol...