Letter from the President—R. C. Blake

Clark A . Rosen , C . Blake Simpson Operative Techniques in Laryngology

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Letter from the President

I have just come back from attending ECMI 2002 in Latvia. About 150 people took part in the conference which was held in the delightful resort town of Jurmala, about 20km south of Riga. The invited speakers covered a wide range of topics and all gave interesting talks as did the minisymposium speakers and the other contributors. The participants enjoyed the weather and surroundings in Jurmala a...

Randolph Blake

which enables researchers to examine the contents of hundreds of bamboo crates packed with dinosaur bones that have remained unopened since they were brought by ship almost a century ago. Specimens such as a finely written 16th century log book and museum director Reinhold Lienfelder’s personal favourite, a sea-foamcoloured cabinet full of rare corals, have been restored. And items with a darke...

Redefinition of the Blake Event

We have recovered four new records of the paleomagnetic field variability within Oxygen Isotope Stage 5 from deep-sea sediment cores of the Blake/Bahama Outer Ridge, western North Atlantic Ocean. These cores contain reproducible evidence of the Blake Event and are located within 300 km of cores used by Smith and Foster (1969) to define the Blake Event. Our new paleomagnetic records have both re...

The Francis Gilman Blake Award

The terms of the award state that it will be given annually to the member of the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine designated by the graduating class as the most outstanding teacher of the medical sciences. The first recipient is Dr. Gerald Klatskin, Associate Professor of Medicine, who was trained by Dr. Blake and, since the war, had been one of his associates in the Department...