23 8 0 31 Summary of the Madras statistics. (1) The number of gastric operations has increased from 8 in 1918 to 260 in 1926. (2) The total of all admissions for these ulcers has increased from 205 in 1922 to 422 in 1926. (3) There was a sudden increase in gastric operations from 12 in 1921 to 132 in 1922. (4) All duodenal ulcers are admitted to the surgical wards and two out of three undergo o...

On 20 September, 2003, Professor Russell L. De Valois died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident ten days earlier. For more than four decades, Russell De Valois had been a leading figure in the study of brain and behavior. With the passing of Russell De Valois, the vision science community lost a brilliant scientist, an inspirational colleague, and a dear friend. Russell De Valois w...

To the great loss of the scienti)c community, Professor Helmut Thiele has passed away unexpectedly, but peacefully on Friday, January 10, 2003 in his home town of Cologne. He was born on June 20, 1926 in Saratoga. In 1946, he took up a profession as “Neulehrer”, a specially created position as school teacher with a short training, to make up for the lack of teachers after World War II. From 194...

Given a compact holomorphic fixed-point-free self-map, f , of the open unit ball of a Hilbert space, we show that the sequence of iterates, (fn), converges locally uniformly to a constant map ξ with ‖ξ‖ = 1. This extends results of Denjoy (1926), Wolff (1926), Hervé (1963) and MacCluer (1983). The result is false without the compactness assumption, nor is it true for all open balls of J∗-algebras.