OF THE DISCUSSION. DB. MARTIN L. HOLBROOK: In listening to the able and interesting lecture of Prof. Cope, I could not help wishing that he had given us more detailed information about the personal life of Mr. Wallace. Knowledge of the personal characteristics of a writer often greatly helps us to an understanding of his thought and to a due appreciation of the value of his opinions. From a fri...

Dr Pingoud was born on 31 August 1945, as the son of a businessman and a teacher in Schwaan (Mecklenburg, Germany). After completing high school in Langen (Hessen, Germany), he studied Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen and at Amherst College in Massachusetts, graduating in 1969 with a thesis describing ‘Studies on the aldehydeoxidase’ with Prof Ernst Bayer at the Institute of Organic C...

gathering of doctors, students and nurses. Dr. Blalock is the third notable occupant of the Chair of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. First was William Stewart Halstead, the centenary of whose birth, celebrated by the Royal Society of Medicine on May 20th, was the reason for Dr. Blalock's visit to England. The second was Dean Lewis, and he was succeeded by Dr. Blalock who came to Hopkins from...

Alfred Russel Wallace spent eight years in South-East Asia studying the biodiversity of the region in the course of visits to Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. His collections, extensively and scrupulously acquired in the Malay Archipelago, include zoological specimens such as insects, birds, reptiles and mammals. In addition, Wallace collected botanical and ethnological material. The bulk of ...

Introduction. Alfred S. Evans Current Patterns of Acute Respiratory Disease in the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Dennis F. Hoeffler Acute Respiratory Disease in the United States Army in the Republic of Viet Nam, 1965-1970. Jay P. Sanford Control ofAdenovirus Acute Respiratory Disease in U.S. Army Trainees. Franklin H. Top, Jr. Control ofMeningococcal Meningitis with Vaccines. Malcolm S....

The APS Constitution and Bylaws appears in the FASEB Membership Directory. Officers: President, Alfred P. Fishman, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; President-Elect, John B. West, University of California, La Jolla, CA; Past President, Walter C. Randall, Loyola University, Maywood, IL; Council, Alfred P. Fishman, John B. West, Walter C. Randall, Franklyn G. Knox, Jack L. Ko...

It is a great honor for us to dedicate this paper to Professor Alfred Klemm on the occasion of his 100th birthday. M. Holovko remembers with pleasure his first meeting with Alfred Klemm during his first visit at the Max-Plank-Institut für Chemie in Mainz in 1986 together with Prof. Igor Yukhnovskii. They were invited to Klemm’s house. It is nice to recall now these discussions on science, art, ...

1Research and Development Unit of Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu/CIBERSAM, 08330 Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain 2Grup de Treball i Recerca en Dona i Salut Mental (GTRDSM), Catalonia, Spain 3 Salut Mental Parc Tauĺı, Fundació Parc Tauĺı Institut Universitari UAB, Corporació Sanitària Parc Tauĺı, 08208 Sabadell, Spain 4 IISPV, Hospital Psiquiàtric Universitari Institut de Psiquiatria Pere Mata/Univ...

Shipborne solar absorption measurements of CO2, CH4, N2O and CO and comparison with SCIAMACHY WFM-DOAS retrievals T. Warneke, R. de Beek, M. Buchwitz, J. Notholt, A. Schulz, V. Velazco, and O. Schrems Institute of environmental physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam, Germany Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany Received: 2 April 2004 – Accepte...