Recent Mathematico-Logical Memoirs

Logical Form : Classical Conception and Recent Challenges

The term ‘logical form’ has been called on to serve a wide range of purposes in philosophy, and it would be too ambitious to try to survey all of them in a single essay. Instead, I will focus on just one conception of logical form that has occupied a central place in the philosophy of language, and in particular in the philosophical study of linguistic meaning. This is what I will call the clas...

Memoirs on Paris hospitals

way to a further divergence between medical researchers, such as comparative anatomists, and clinical practitioners during the era of university reform after the breakup of the Holy Roman Empire and the ReichsdeputationshauptschluJ3 of 1803. The competing cultural politics of the German states provided another public sphere for this theory-practice division. In his conclusions Broman notes that...

Surviving the "House of a Hundred Windows": Irish Industrial Schools in Recent Fiction and Memoirs

Scientific Memoirs, No. 42. Leprosy

special attention to it. As soon as Major Rost laid claim to the cultivation of the bacillus, Surgeon-General Lukis took the opportunity of visiting Burma and seeing the work for himself. He was soon convinced of the importance of the work, and Colonel Bannerman of the Bombay Laboratory was called in to examine and report upon this work. The Rost cultures were examined by him and the work of Wi...

Memoirs of my nervous illness

RICHARD L. GOLDEN and CHARLES G. ROLAND (eds.), Sir William Osler, an annotated bibliography with illustrations, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1988, 4to, pp. xv, 214, $100.00. Sir William Osler's personality and writings exert a continuing fascination. Minnie Wright Blogg's bibliography of 1919 was quickly superseded by Maude E. Abbott's Classified and annotated bibliography of 1926 (second...