historians seek to learn the nature of the young Scots doctors who came in droves to England throughout the hundred years straddling the first World War, this autobiography will be essential reading. When Sydney Laird's generation was at its most clinically active, a venereologist was jokingly defined as a doctor with many acquaintances but few friends. The joke stops here. My abiding memory of...

The rapidity with which edition after edition of this book follows its predecessor goes to prove that it meets with the approval of Scots graduates. It is a most excellent compendium, and very little is left out. It can be safely recommended to the student of any University, provided the clinical teaching therein is good. In obstetrics it is the sense of touch and understanding that has to be c...

W.L. Miller Chris Allen Department of Politics University of Edinburgh No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland 191480. London: Edward Arnold, 1981, 182pp The End of British Politics? Scots and English Political Behaviour in the Seventies. Oxford: Clarendon, 1981, 28lpp J. Bochel,D. Denver, The Referendum Experience: Scotland 1979. & A. Macartney (eds.)Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 198!...

historians seek to learn the nature of the young Scots doctors who came in droves to England throughout the hundred years straddling the first World War, this autobiography will be essential reading. When Sydney Laird's generation was at its most clinically active, a venereologist was jokingly defined as a doctor with many acquaintances but few friends. The joke stops here. My abiding memory of...

In this article, I intend to concentrate on one type of process by which Scots has found new legitimation as a language, and how discourses surrounding the issue of Scots might seek to contribute to the creation of a new Scottish society. I whish to show how history is used as a legitimating discursive device by the various components of the Scots language revitalisation movement. The question ...

Nitrogen balance of a boreal Scots pine forest J. F. J. Korhonen, M. Pihlatie, J. Pumpanen, H. Aaltonen, P. Hari, J. Levula, A.-J. Kieloaho, E. Nikinmaa, T. Vesala, and H. Ilvesniemi Department of Physics, P.O. Box 48, 00 014, University of Helsinki, Finland Department of Forest Sciences, P.O. Box 27, 00 014, University of Helsinki, Finland Hyytiälä Forestry Field station, Hyytiäläntie 124, 35 ...