INTRODUCTION In this paper we discuss an approach to the study of closed, connected, oriented manifolds, with infinite fundamental group which have a special property which we call L 2-acyclicity. The first object of our exposition is to summarise in an accessible form what we have established about such manifolds in [2]. As a result of discussions on this work which occurred during the confere...

Soutra is no doubt an interesting site, and careful archaeological examination of the remains of its pits may produce, as suggested by SHARP, knowledge of the foods and medicines used by its staff and inmates. For the moment, however, the First report on Soutra indicates that the necessary balance between academic skills, ambitious objectives, imagination, and interpretative ability has yet to ...

Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and of Social and Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia. Christian List is Reader in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, UK. We thank Steven Brams, Dennis Mueller, Franz Dietrich and three anony...

Morphological structures of the type species of Euconnus (Rhomboconnus Franz) are described and illustrated, and compared with those of Euconnus s. str. Rhomboconnus, although showing several peculiar character states (e.g., rudimentary or lacking basal elytral foveae) is maintained as a subgenus of Euconnus, and its revised diagnosis is given. Two species currently placed in Rhomboconnus, E. p...