Hazards from Cosmetics and Toilet Preparations .1700 The Traveller Looks Both Ways. DOUGLAS GUTHRIE, M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.P.Ed. ......................... 1701 To-day's Drugs ..................... 1704 OBITUARY ........................... 1716 MEDICO-LEGAL ...................... 1718 MEDICAL NOTES IN PARLIAMENT ...... 1719 VITAL STATISTICS .................... 1721 MEDICAL NEWS ...................

Astronomy During the Early Years of the American Reports: Philosophical Society: DR. S. A. MITCHELL .................. 489 First Report of the War Policy Committee of the American Institute of Physics .......... .............. 508 Obituary: Special Articles: Arthur Newell Talbot: PROFESSOR F. E. RICHART. The Biochemical Specificity of Sulfanilamide and Recent Deaths ......... 495 of Other Antib...

Mike came from a farming background in the north of England and spent much of his childhood on the family farm during World War II (1939– 1945). This was before the days of full mechanisations and he can claim to have ploughed with horses and harvested cereals for threshing by steam power. His mother harboured ideas of having a "blood and guts" veterinarian in the family but a career in agricul...

The Reputed Conflict between the Laboratories and DR. G. MuRAY MCKiNLEY. Beducing Moisture Clinical Medicine: THE LATE DR. C. F. HOOVER ...... 491 Evaporation from Petri Dish Cultures: DR. E. E. HUBERT and T. H. HARIs .508 Obituary: The Scientific Work of Etienne S. Bieler: PROSpecial Articles: FESSOR L. V. KING. Henry Chapman Mercer: The Displacement of Toxin from Neutralized ALBERT MOYER .......

OnMay3 of this year, cell biology lost a giantwith the untimely passing of Alan Hall (Fig. 1). Alan didn’t discover the Rho family of GTPases but, more than anyone else, he and his laboratory brought these key regulatory proteins to the prominent position that they now occupy. I first met Alan in the early 1990s shortly after his landmark papers with Anne Ridley were published (Ridley and Hall,...