suffering from a deficiency of vitamin C. Portnoy and Wilkinson (1938) confirmed the results obtained by Rotter. They also stated that they found a good correlation between the level of blood ascorbic acid and the decolorization time of the intradermal test in 103 patients. Later, Wright and MacLenathen (1939) who also investigated dietary history and determined blood ascorbic acid levels, gave...

COMPOUNDS which influence Robison ester formation from glycogen and inorganic phosphate in muscle extract may act either on the first step: glycogen + inorganic phosphate='glucose-l-phosphate (Cori ester)-or on the second step: Cori ester-+hexose-6-phosphate (Robison ester), or on both these steps. Several factors which increase or inhibit Robison ester formation could be shown to act on one or...

The species of the subgenus Chthonius (Chthonius) C.L. Koch, 1843 displaying a sigmoid fixed chelal finger from the Eastern Alps and the Carpathians, assigned to the informal heterodactylus species-group, are revised and a key given for their identification. The following species are present in this area: Chthonius cavernarum Ellingsen, 1909 (Italy, Romania, Slovenia), C. heterodactylus Tömösvá...

Le camp de Septfonds (Tarn-et-Garonne) est l’un des nombreux camps en France ou furent internes, a partir premiers mois de 1939, milliers Republicains espagnols et etrangers qui avaient combattu leurs cotes pendant la guerre d’Espagne, apres leur defaite devant les troupes franquistes repli France. La recherche Genevieve Dreyfus-Armand sur l’histoire ce camp, mars 1939 l’ete 1944, l’interet pre...

GREAT BRITAIN Year Men Women Total 1901 ... 1,071,519 ... 1,336,907 ... 2,408,426 1939 ... 2,511,200 ... 3,197,400 ... 5,708,60

by Sally Young (this is the first part of a story of the summer European travels of Wilfred Allard, who was in Italy when the recent crisis arose and broke.<) "New York looked mighty good to me." That was the reaction of Wilfred Allard, new supervisor of French in Milne high school, upon his arrival in New York after two and one half months of travel in England, France, and Italy. Allard starte...

He followed this with a stint in the UK where he trained at Bristol, one of his contemporaries fondly referred to him as the ‘last Englishman’ in India. He then managed to get the Millard Cleft Fellowship in Miami, probably the first Indian to do so. During dinner one day, he regaled us with a deadpan face about his interview with Millard. He was asked about sports. Apparently, Millard insisted...

In Memoriam: Professor Dr hab. Jerzy Bartmiński (1939−2022)This is an article in memory of Bartmiński, a renowned Polish philologist, ethnoliguist, folklorist and Slavist, working at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (since 1961), Institute Slavic Studies, Academy Sciences 2008). Wspomnienie o Profesorze Jerzym Bartmińskim (1939–2022)Wspomnienie Bartmińskim, wybitnym poloniście, etnolingwiś...

DURING the winter of 1939-40 a number of men working in a munition factory attended at the skin department of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, where they were seen by Dr. Ivan McCaw. They were suffering from staphylococcal lesions of the skin of the arms and thighs, which varied in severity from mild folliculitis with acne to severe boils. During work, the skin of the parts affected was in...