In a recent issue, this journal published an article by Professor Robert S. Summers reviewing and commenting critically upon a recent book by Professor H. L. A. Hart of Oxford entitled The Concept of Law. Among other things, Professor Summers criticized Professor Hart for stressing rules to the neglect of other elements of a legal system and for succumbing to reductionist tendencies in the anal...

Howard Elcock has passed away, aged 75, while at his holiday retreat in Tolo, Greece, in early summer 2017. He was Professor Emeritus of Government at Northumbria University, UK. He was educated at the Priory School for Boys, Shrewsbury and The Queen’s College Oxford, gaining a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1964 and a B Phil (now M Phil) in Politics in 1966. He took his MA in 1968...

Professor John Hilton j0u sudcten death on August 28th, 1943, of Professor Cou ton means a grievous loss to the National mitt0011 ^0r Cental Hygiene of whose Executive Comyea e? he had been a member since 1939. This was the f0r r ln, which Professor Hilton made a broadcast appeal Wii h lic financial support of the Council's work, for pCn the Association has reason to be especially grateful, rig...

Professor Thomas Walmsley was appointed to the chair of Anatomy at Queen's in 1919 and held the post until 1951. He graduated in Glasgow in 1912. While lecturing "he combined simplicity of presentation with impressiveness in delivery and held his class spellbound"'. It is said that he had great influence on staff and students alike and was respected by all who came in contact with him; in his t...

With Dr. Fischer's long interest in muscle physiology and with his background in Germany, I thought that my personal experiences in Professor Otto Meyerhof's laboratory in Heidelberg, 1931-1932, might be of interest. This laboratory was at that time one of the outstanding centers for research in muscle physiology and chemistry. The laboratory was called the Kaiser Wilhelm-Institute fiir Medizin...

Clovis Pedro Junqueira, considered a living legend in transfusion medicine in Brazil died on October 2, 2011, at the age of 94 years. Until about 1 or 2 years ago, Professor Junqueira was still active, receiving honors and being interviewed and consulted about the future of hemotherapy in Brazil. He was seen in the library that bears his name at the headquarters of the Brazilian Society of Hema...

Responsible agricultural practices provide a useful lens through which to consider the lives and careers of researchers.

world generally. Wilhelm Boeck was born at Kongsberg in 1808, became a student in 1S27. Doctor in 1831; he was elected member of the Storthing in 1845 and Professor at the University in 1846. Boeck's name and scientific merits stand in special connexion witli his investigation of two of the most terrible forms of disease which have afflicted and still afflict the human race. Of one of these, Le...