Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen. It is an honor, indeed, to be asked to give the Linsley R. Williams Memorial Lecture, and to participate thereby in the Laity Series of the New York Academy of Medicine. The fruitful career of Dr. Williams included contributions of great importance to the modern structure of the New York Academy of Medicine, which he served as full-time director, and also to ...

An update of the systematics and determination key of the Opiliones suborder Dyspnoi is provided. The included catalogue represents the first comprehensive species and synonymy listing since Roewer (1923). It summarises all taxonomic changes to date and attempts to be a sound basis against the exponential growing number of online errors, for which examples are given. Species taxonomy features m...

In 1927 Adam reported the association of certain fermentative types of Escherichia coli with diarrhea in infants. Goldschmidt (1933) made similar observations. Bray (1945) in England demonstrated the presence of a specific serologic "O" type, 0111, of E. coli in an epidemic of diarrhea among newborn infants and focused attention on E. coli as a possible etiologic agent. Subsequent studies were ...