"cortical mosaic" theory of the localization of movements by the unit representation of individual muscles, and stresses the importance, alike to physiologists and clinicians, of a wvider appreciation of the importance of the hypothesis of multiple and overlapping representations of movements rather than muscles. In this admirable essay the author shows himself to share with Hughlings Jackson, ...

1. Background This study was prompted by three independent developments. One is a widely publicized criticism of the Japanese subtitles of the film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring the first episode in the J.R.R.Tolkien trilogy. Shortly after the film's release in Japan in March 2002, complaints about the quality of the subtitles from Japanese fans led to petitions to the film'...

In 1992, Goulden and Jackson found a beautiful determinantal expression for the immanant of a matrix. This paper proves the same result combinatori-ally.