A survey of proteocephalidean cestodes found in the firewood catfish Sorubimichthys planiceps (Spix et Agassiz) from the Amazon River is provided. The following taxa parasitic in S. planiceps are redescribed on the basis of their type specimens and material collected recently in the Amazon River, near the type localities in Brazil, and in Iquitos, Peru: Monticellia lenha Woodland, 1933; Nomimos...

We were greatly saddened to hear the news of Professor Fereydoun Malekzadeh's death at age of 79 in September 9, 2012. Professor Malekzadeh was a distinguished and highly respected Iranian Microbiologist and a member of the editorial board of the Iranian Biomedical Journal since October 1997. He was born in 1933 in city of Tabriz in Province of Azarbaijan, Iran. After graduated from high school...

altered plans to provide a railway to Nova Scotia. A brush with ill health, and a consultation with William Osler, led Tupper to moderate his lifestyle. Having held several portfolios in the Cabinet, he "retired" to England as High Commissioner in 1884. But after Macdonald's death, Tupper was recalled to politics by his party and was appointed prime minister for a two-month period until his Gov...

Resume of previous work Knowles (1934) made the following observations in regard to the development of tolerance in monkey malaria. Between November' 1932 and August 1933, a Silenus rhesus monkey was given four injections with monkey plasmodium, treated each time with small doses of quinine, and developed a chronic infection, which apparently cleared up. On 7th August, 1933, it was given a 5th ...

(1924); Spemann, H., Arch. Entw.-Mech., 123, 389-517 (1931); Mangold, O., Naturwiss., 21, 761-766 (1933); Holtfreter, J., Arch. Entw.-Mkch., 127, 619-775 (1933). 10 R6hlich, K., Arch. Entw.-Mech., 118, 164-199 (1929). it Harxison, R. G., Anat. Rec., 64, Suppi. 1, 38-39 (1935). 12 Yntema, C. L., Jour. Exp. ZoOl., 65, 317-357 (1933). Is Twitty, V. C., Ibid., 50, 319-344 (1928); see also the somew...

The intersection of law and science, particularly in relation to causality and the legal concept of causation, were of considerable interest to Sir Owen Dixon. In this article, revisiting Dixon's 1933 lecture "Science and Judicial Proceedings", the Chief Justice refers to Dixon's deep interest in science and the issues to which it can give rise in legal proceedings. The 1933 lecture followed sh...