The species Ecdyonurus sumatranus Ulmer, 1939 was described from Sumatra based on a female imago and a single nymph. It was designated as the type-species of the genus Ecdyonuroides Dang, 1967, erected because of the peculiar morphology of the nymph. This genus was put into synonymy later and the species is currently known as Thalerosphyrus sumatranus (Ulmer, 1939). The female imago holotype of...

Stephen F. Heinemann Steve Heinemann, one of the fathers of modern molecular neuroscience and a pioneer in neurotransmitter receptor biology, passed away on August 6, 2014, in La Jolla, California. Steve was well known in the neuroscience community as a genuinely nice guy with an unorthodox approach to research. For almost four decades in an extraordinarily productive career he helped to drive ...

Lev M. Brutman was born in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union, on September 25, 1939. He completed his mathematical studies at Moscow State University in 1965. In 1973, he emigrated to Israel. With Nira Dyn as his advisor, Lev obtained a Ph.D. degree at Tel-Aviv University in 1982. The title of his dissertation was ‘‘Operators of polynomial interpolation and alternation: properties, optimality ...

The main contributions to the subject of gout during the period under review have not unnaturally come from American workers. In spite of outstanding research by Talbott and Coombs (1938), Bauer and Klemperer (1942), and others into the metabolic and clinical aspects of the disease, the essential problem remains unsolved. Gout used not to be regarded very seriously by American physicians, and i...

IN a previous communication [Macrae et at. 1939] we described the preparation from liver extracts of highly potent concentrates of a nutritional factor for rats to which we applied the name "liver ifitrate factor" [cf. Edgar et al. 1938].; At that time we drew attention to the similarity in properties between this factor and pantothenic acid [Williams et al. 1938; 1939] and discussed the possib...

1 Contribution No. 324 from the Department of Zoology, Indiana University. 2Aided by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The author is indebted to Ruth V. Dippel for invaluable assistance in conducting the experiments. 3 Sonneborn, T. M., Amer. Nat., 73, 390-413 (1939). 4 Diller, W. F., J. Morph., 59, 11-67 (1936). Sonneborn, T. M., Anat. Rec., 75 (suppl.), 85 (1939). 6 Wichterman, R., Jou...

Paul Eugen Bleuler studied autism and schizophrenia, among other psychiatric disorders, throughout continental Europe in the early twentieth century. Bleuler worked as a psychiatrist caring for patients with psychiatric disorders at a variety of facilities in Europe. In 1908, Bleuler coined the term schizophrenia to describe a group of diseases that cause changes in thought processes and behavi...

Edward Wing Twining (Fig 1) generally is regarded as the “father” of British neuroradiology. Born on March 18th 1887, he came from a line of doctors, his grandfather and father being in family practice at Salcombe, Devon, in the south of England. He was educated at Epsom College and University College Hospital where he qualified in medicine in 1913. As a student dresser (medical student on a su...