I first saw William at the Saturday morning clinic when he came by appointment for a second examination. He is a commonplacelooking American boy with a pale freckled face, light tawny colored hair, dull blue eyes, and thick expressionless lips. His frontal regions are slightly depressed. Though he is thirteen years eight months of age, he looks about eleven, undersized and under weight. There w...

"The many generations of psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric social workers who passed through their training in child guidance under his directorship, have reason to remember his fatherly kindness and the steadfastness and good humour with which he watched over their professional development. He stood the brunt of the early days of struggle to win recognition for the value of child gu...

I am deeply honored by the Allan Award, for myself and for all my colleagues who have been involved in the often labyrinthine pathway of research that led initially from a freezer at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, and culminated eventually in DNA fingerprinting. One of the great pleasures of science for me is the unexpected and serendipitous twists of fate that can shift the emphasis ...

The reception of Harvey's doctrines of the movement of the heart and of the circulation of blood was the result of a complex interaction of intellectual, political and social factors. As French's book shows, Harvey's views were not simply accepted or rejected; they were interpreted-and often misunderstood-in the light of different philosophical and religious ideas. In university faculties and c...

An rj-normal lattice is a distributive lattice with 0 such that each prime ideal contains at most n minimal prime ideals. A relatively ra-normal lattice is a distributive lattice such that each bounded closed interval is an /¡.-normal lattice. The main results of this paper are: (1) a distributive lattice L with 0 is 71,-normal if and only if for any %n, x,,*•', X e L such that x Ax. = 0 for an...

The offer made by tlie President of the lloyal College of Surgeons to proceed to the Cape in the capacity of Consulting Surgeon has been accepted by Government with graceful alacrity; and, after a very hearty "send off" at Waterloo by the students of St. Thomas's Hospital and probably other schools, Sir William proceeded from Southampton by the Union liner Breton. He is to be associated in his ...