Dr. John Jackson, C.B.E., F.R.S.

Professor Robert McNeill Alexander CBE FRS (1934-2016).

Robert McNeill Alexander, known to friends and colleagues as 'Neill', was a zoologist with an engineer's eye for how animals work. He used mathematical models to show how evolution has produced optimal designs. His skill was to choose appropriate models: realistic enough to contain the essence of a problem and yet simple enough to be tractable. He wrote fluently and easily: 23 books, 280 papers...

Dr. John Lindesay Pearce

Dr. John Thompson

Dr John Rae

recognition is made also of Bright's discoveries in liver disease and neurology. But the reader gains little understanding of Bright's work in the context of changing ideas of disease, chemistry, and medical investigation of the first half of the nineteenth century. We do not learn enough about what, if any, skills and ideas Bright brought back from his European excursions. It is when discussin...

The Unique Legacy of Dr. Hughlings Jackson

The Unique Legacy of Dr. Hughlings Jackson, by ARTHUR M. LASSEK, Springfield, Illinois, C. C. Thomas, 1970, pp. v, 146, $6175. This useful little book begins with a short, anecdotal biography, and presents a summary of Hughlings Jackson's major writings and an exegesis of his theories, making them available in an easily understood form. Jackson's doctrines of evolution and dissolution are recou...