We create a new family of Banach spaces, the James–Schreier spaces, by amalgamating two important classical Banach spaces: James’ quasi-reflexive Banach space on the one hand and Schreier’s Banach space giving a counterexample to the Banach–Saks property on the other. We then investigate the properties of these James–Schreier spaces, paying particular attention to how key properties of their ‘a...

Jim Valentine went to college on the GI Bill (a WWII veterans privilege) and has been there ever since; at present he is Professor of Integrative Biology, Emeritus, at UC Berkeley. His early research was on what is now called macroecology, working with fossil marine faunas, leading to a book, Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Marine Biosphere. Those studies continue today, chiefly with colleague...

Based on a Dissertation read before the Royal Medical Society on Friday, 21st October 1960 Picture, if you can. a dark grim valley of smoke and chimneys, outlined by a ring of light appearing over the hills. In the streets a clatter of horses' hooves and wooden clogs. In a dingy room the oft repeated scene of a girl in labour surrounded by old women in shawls. The ubiquitous, anxious husband is...

Ham Green Hospital, Bristol from 1948 to 1976 died on 5th February 1987 aged 75 years. He was born on 24th February 1911 at Kyle of Locha'5. and educated at Dingwall Academy and Glasgow versity where he qualified in 1934. During the following years he held junior hospital posts in virtually everV medical and surgical speciality and in 1939 appointed Deputy Medical Superintendant of Lana^ shire ...

By the death of Mr. James Furness Marson, F.R.C.S., on the 17th of November 1877, the Society lost one of its oldest and most honoured members. Mr. Marson had been long a member of the Council, and more than once the Presidency of the Society was offered to him, but each time he had felt it necessary to decline the offer, in consequence of a painful malady to which he had become liable, and whi...

James Croll (1821–90) occupies a prominent position in the history of physical geology, and his pioneering work on the causes of long-term climate change has been widely discussed. During his life he benefited from the patronage of leading men of science; his participation in scientific debates was widely acknowledged, not least through his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1876. For...