This essay asks why the art of Alphonse Legros (1837–1911) remained inconspicuous in history past generation, when study nineteenth century played such a prominent role discipline. Legros's realist and politically committed practice is eminently suited to art‐historical methods that dominated period. He was an associate Courbet Whistler, his work attracted comment from Charles Baudelaire, Walte...

CLINICALCHEMISTRY, Vol. 34, No. 5, 1988 991 MDMA and MDA Cross ReactivIty Observed wIth Abbott TDx Amphetamlne/MethamphetamIne Reagents, James M. Ramos, Jr. (Dept. of Pathol., Med. College of Virginia; current address: 4th Medical Group/SGHL, Seymour Johnson AFB, NC 27531), Robert L. Fitzgerald (Dept. of Pharmacol. and Toxicol., Med. College of Virginia), and Alphonse Poklis (Dept. of Pathol., ...

When the famous Russian botanist Nikolya Vavilov outlined the major regions of the world that had given man most of his principal cultivated plants, he did not include the Amazon Valley. Nor did his nineteenthcentury predecessor Alphonse De Candolle, the pioneer in the field of phytogeographic study, look to the Amazon as the source of important cultivated plants. Since the exploratory work of ...