The son of Ellen Key and Charles Hunt Morgan, T. H. Morgan was born on 25 September 1866 into a prominent family in Lexington, Kentucky. Morgan grew up exploring the environment around his childhood home and developed a special interest in fossils. As a young man, he spent a summer employed doing geological and biological fieldwork in the Kentucky mountains. He received his BS degree from the U...

CONTRIBUTIONS to the unemployment trust fund on 1945 wages are estimated at $1.05 billion, 1 or about 1 1 percent below the previous year's total of $1.17 billion. Although the end of the war in August 1945 caused taxable wages for 1945 to decline from *Prepared in the Program Division, Bureau of Employment Security. 1 Except for the discussion on page 16, the effect of war-risk provisions (inc...

Bacteria as a source of antibiotic materials have been the object of intensive study. Some of the bacteria more recently investigated for antibiotic properties have been Chromobacterium violaceum by Lichstein and Van de Sand (1945) and the Bacillus subtilis group by various workers, among whom may be mentioned Salle and Jann (1945), Johnson, Anker, and Meleney (1945), Olivier, De Saint Rat, and...

We examined whether ((1S)-1-((((1S)-1-benzyl-3-cyclopropylamino-2,3-di-oxopropyl)amino)carbonyl)-3-methylbutyl)carbamic acid 5-methoxy-3-oxapentyl ester (SNJ-1945), a new orally available calpain inhibitor, might reduce retinal cell death in vivo and/or in vitro. Retinal cell damage was induced in vivo in mice by intravitreal injection of N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA), and SNJ-1945 was intraperit...

Christopher John Ash was born on 5 January 1945 at Gorleston, a seaside town adjoining Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. He was an only child. His father, Kenneth William Ash, was the middle of three brothers. The elder brother was a Wing Commander in the Royal Air Force who worked on rocket research and the younger was a Captain in the Merchant Navy. Chris’s father was Borough Engineer at Redc...

Mrs. E. C., aged 31, 2-para; was admitted to this hospital on August 27th, 1945, complaining of severe constant abdominal pain of 5 hours duration. Her past and family history were not significant. In 1937 she had had a full time normal delivery. In 1941 she had had a 7-months’ premature stillbirth, attributed to the cord being round the child’s neck. History of wesent pregnancy. Last normal me...

Numerous reports (Carpenter et al., 1944; Spink et al., 1945; Tainter, 1945) have been recorded in the literature describing increased resistance of bacteria to various chemotherapeutic substances, including antibiotics. Increased resistance of organisms to penicillin has been observed (Spink et al., 1945; Tainter, 1945; Demerec, 1945). In the latter case, attempts have been made to control inf...