John Hilton, 1805–1878

Professor John Hilton

Professor John Hilton j0u sudcten death on August 28th, 1943, of Professor Cou ton means a grievous loss to the National mitt0011 ^0r Cental Hygiene of whose Executive Comyea e? he had been a member since 1939. This was the f0r r ln, which Professor Hilton made a broadcast appeal Wii h lic financial support of the Council's work, for pCn the Association has reason to be especially grateful, rig...

Love (Mohabba) in Sufism

In the following, I describe the Sufi Path (tariqa) as a dialectical process which transforms the person through love. I examine the belief system of Islamic mystics as a journey involving both creativity and passion. I do so by using a fresh approach, a perspective that has heretofore yet to be applied to the spiritual alchemy of the Sufis.

Samuel D. Gross, M.D. (1805-1884): an innovator, even in death.

A revision of ant-mimicking spiders of the family Corinnidae (Araneae) in the Western Pacific.

The Corinnidae of the western Pacific are revised. The formerly sparassid genus Anchognatha Thorell, 1881, and the gnaphosid genus Battalus Karsch, 1878, are transferred to the Castianeirinae. The Corinninae include only the introduced Creugas gulosus Thorell, 1878 and Medmassa christae sp. nov. from the northern Torres Strait islands. Medmassa pallipes (L. Koch, 1873) and Medmassa pusilla Simo...

Trisomy 18 (Edwards Syndrome)

John Hilton Edwards [7] first described the symptoms of the genetic disorder known as Trisomy 18?one of the most common forms of human trisomy, which occurs when cells have an extra copy of a chromosome, in 1960. Trisomy 18 [5], also known as Edwards Syndrome [6], occurs approximately once per 6000 live births and is second in frequency only to Trisomy 21, or Down?s Syndrome, as an autosomal tr...