Excursion to Plymouth, Easter, 1907

Academic paediatrics: Easter Island or Easter Sunday?

W hen the last tree on Easter Island was felled, the inhabitants belatedly realised that there was no escape from an eon of ‘‘groundhog days’’. Paediatrics, a discipline championed in the UK, faces a comparably monotonous future bereft of innovation and improvement. Levene and Olver present alarming data on staffing changes in UK academic paediatrics between 1999 and 2004. Most worrying is a 26...

Some Plymouth Worthies, Part 1

Most towns in this country have produced distinguished sons who have made valuable contributions to art and science in their time. Plymouth is no exception. This paper deals with some names, well-known or less recognised, who practised medicine and surgery in Plymouth during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Nearly all were Plymouth men, a few came from outside and one or two made their names ...

Lindsay m. Black, 1907 to 1997.

University of Plymouth: Inaugural Lectures

One evening in 1993, the University of Plymouth was host to a unique event. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor John Bull, was able to introduce inaugural lectures by the University’s two newest Professors of Chemistry in a ’double feature’ presentation. Professor Paul Worsfold .joined the Plymouth Analytical Chemistry Research Unit in the Department of Environmental Sciences from the University of ...

JZ Young 1907 –  1997

JZ Young died on 4th July. Although 90 in March, and recently in poor health, he was still working. With long-time collaborators, he was preparing two books and two papers for publication. Three of these are on cephalopod brains and biology, the fourth on the autonomic nervous system of dogfish, an early interest to which he returned after his retirement in 1974. John Young (known as JZ to coll...