Sir,-?I desire to draw the attention of your readers to the subject set for this prize for the current year, viz., " A Maternity Home and Infant Welfare Centre." In the cause of social progress, these institutions are bound to have an importance in the future which is as yet little realised. Although a comparatively small number of specially designed buildings have been erected (and these are, ...

Thirty-five years ago, Gorer (1936), working with inbred strains of mice, discovered four blood group antigens and showed (Gorer 1937) that one of them, antigen II, was also present in fixed tissues and played a decisive role in determining susceptibility or resistance to tumor transplants. Following the suggestion of Snell (1948) that antigens concerned in transplantation reactions should be c...

In the ordinary linear models, regressing the residuals against lagged values has been suggested as an approach to test the hypothesis of zero autocorrelation among residuals. In this paper we extend these results to the both equally and unequally replicated functionally measurement error models. We consider the equally and unequally replicated cases separately, because in the first case the re...