loner, and this is probably due to the fact that I had to start earning a living early. An enormous change took place in my life when one of my favorite professors, Charles Grupper, persuaded me to attend the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) meetings held in 1966 in Miami. I discovered that sharing a room with him was like being 2 students at college. He introduced me to the greatest derma...

My first contact with Citroën had nothing in common with an entry accompanied by a brass band, so there is absolutely no reason to brag about it. My vague scientific recollection had turned into a faint blur in Algeria, and the advertisement of a job vacancy, for which I was foolhardy enough to apply for, described individuals who resembled everything else which I was not myself. When Monsieur ...

Invisible Hosts: Performing the Nineteenth-Century Spirit Medium’s Autobiography, by Elizabeth Schleber Lowry. SUNY Press, 2017. 186pp., Hb $95.00, ISBN-13: 9781438465999; Pb. $32.95. 9781438466002.

This work addresses whether creating a biographical sketch for a fictional adolescent can increase confidence that one personally experienced these details in adolescence (memory distortion) and whether susceptibility to such distortion (depends on whether adolescence is considered part of one's subjective past or subjective present. We divided the subjective past and present using the point at...

their holdings of multiple copies. A handful of later lists are included, the most substantial from the seventeenth century being that of John Nidd, dated 1659, with a high proportion of medical books. Where the books were bequeathed to College libraries, as Nidd's were to Trinity and Andrew Perne's to Peterhouse, those still to be found on the College shelves have been identified. The owners f...