Charles J. Fillmore died at his home in San Francisco on February 13, 2014, of brain cancer. He was 84 years old. Fillmore was one of the world’s pre-eminent scholars of lexical meaning and its relationship with context, grammar, corpora, and computation, and his work had an enormous impact on computational linguistics. His early theoretical work in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s on case grammar a...

Readers of The Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal will have seen the numerous obituary notices of the late Dr. Charles Albert Calmette which have appeared in the Press. It is, therefore, unnecessary to refer at length to his younger days spent as a naval surgeon in Chinese waters or to his first entry into independent scientific study as a young bacteriologist picked out by Pasteur for special ...

On 24th December, 1944, Mr. C. Terrier Walters died in Bristol after an illness which had lasted several months. He was at the time of his death Honorary Consulting Surgeon to the Bristol Royal Hospital and Group Officer to the Bristol Area under the Ministry of Health E.M.S. Scheme. Mr. Walters was born on 26th December, 1874, the son o Thomas Walters, Chartered Accountant. He was educated at ...

Dept. of Medicine, TN Medical College & BYL Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai 400 008 C Nicolle was born in Rouen, France, to a practising physician. He received his medical education in Rouen and completed his graduation from the hospital in Paris. In 1893, he further studied in the Pasteur Institute of Paris, under the direction of Metchnikoff and Roux. In 1902, he was appointed the first director of...

"He has truly made outstanding contributions that have brought clarity out of chaos in the variou areas of shoulder surgery. His publications are voluminous, and each article is written accurately, clearly and with obvious attention to every detail. His versatility as a teacher, researcher, and surgeon is far excellence". (Texto do Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 1987).

An inexpensive modification of the flute needle is described for use in closed intraocular microsurgery.

We regret to report the death of Mr. C. A. Morton, which took place on August 16th during a holiday in Switzerland. Charles Alexander Morton, known to many generations of students as " Peter," was born in Bristol in 1860, where his father, a surgeon in the H.E.I.C.S., lived after his retirement. He was educated at Clifton, and subsequently at St. Bartholomew's. Mr. Stanford Morton, of ophthalmo...

following interesting account of the adventures of Dr. Charles Lloyd :? Dr. Charles Lloyd, or Loyd, the subject of the following note, was a medical man, of Welsh descent, who served under Haidar Ali, King of Maisur, for some four years, 1777-1781. Little appears to be known about him. In the preface to my History of the Indian Medical Service (p. x) I wrote : " Who was Dr. Lloyd, the English, ...

I do not remember my first meeting with Winternitz, but, when the full-time clinical experiment was launched in Baltimore, Winternitz was one of my first customers. He was and still is one of our ablest medical scientists. In his account of William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine, my brother, Simon, speaks of a group which included such brilliant men as MacCallum, Opie, G.H....