: W. H. R. Rivers . Richard Slobodin.

W H R Rivers (1864-1922): the founder of research in cross-cultural perception.

This paper presents a brief review of Rivers's contribution to psychology, especially to his cross-cultural studies of the basic perceptual processes of vision, and examines the lasting influence of his findings. It reports briefly on the scientific milieu in which Rivers carried out his work and traces the growth of his interest in the psychology of perception from the early days of his medica...

Richard H Ellis

RICHARD HANCOCK ELLIS (1937-1995) With the tragic and premature death of Richard Ellis the history of anaesthesia has lost one of its most outstanding researchers and exponents. Dick Ellis was born on 11 September 1937. He graduated from the London Hospital Medical School in 1961, and commenced his training in anaesthetics two years later. He became a Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists in 1...

Todd R. Steven W.

Images of Mars obtained using the Planetary Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope during 1990 and 1991 are described and analyzed. Multi-spectral images of Mars record the martian season between L~ = 348 and 60 corresponding to late winter and spring in the northern hemisphere. The wavelengths of these observations varied between 230 nm in the ultraviolet and 890 nm in the near infrared. We use ...

W. R. D. Fairbairn

Instinct and the Unconscious *Instinct and the Unconscious. By W. H. R. Rivers, M.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S. (Cambridge: University Press, 15s. net.)

jCIGMUND FREUD promulgated his epochmaking hypothesis of the unconscious mind just in time for the war to enable the truth of his theories to be tested on a large scale. And it was one of the few happy results of the war that it tempted from their academic seclusion men, such as Dr. Rivers, who, although members of the medical profession, had devoted themselves mainly to scientific investigatio...