Professor Sir Neil James Douglas (1949–2020)

Sir Walter James Buchanan

Sir James Mackenzie

Based on a Dissertation read before the Royal Medical Society on Friday, 21st October 1960 Picture, if you can. a dark grim valley of smoke and chimneys, outlined by a ring of light appearing over the hills. In the streets a clatter of horses' hooves and wooden clogs. In a dingy room the oft repeated scene of a girl in labour surrounded by old women in shawls. The ubiquitous, anxious husband is...

JALDA's Interview with Professor James P. Lantolf

James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...

James Douglas of the Pouch.

own was discussed, the leading figures in this first meeting being Drs. Hellier and Arthur Fuller. When the Association was formed, the Griqualand West branch continued its activities, having representatives on the Federal Council, of which I am proud to say I am one. In 1953, the late Dr. J. P. Collins of the Griqualand West branch was elected president of the Association and acted as host to ...

Sir James Lancaster the Explorer.

The developing role of the naval surgeon has been studied extensively throughout time and many characters and events are well known in popular history. Commodore George Anson’s scurvy riddled voyage in 1740, the unprecedented health amongst Captain Cook’s South Sea Crews and Lord Admiral Nelson’s variety of war injuries to name but a few. One character has been largely overlooked to date. His r...