The important role of Uranium from a military and scientific viewpoint has been common knowledge ever since the discovery of fission in 1939. Consequently, the accurate assaying of Uranium in natural ores has necessitated detailed investigat1ons by both physicists and…

For many years Labrador has been a land of mystery. The country is not well known, though today for economic reasons, its development is more apparent. Knowledge of the geography of the country is more complete than that of the…

A knowledge or the individual chemical constituents of bark is important not only from an academic point of view, but is of vital interest to the economy of the wood pulp industry in general. For several years, a major investigation…

In modern society the care and rehabilitation of the crippled and disabled is one of the primary problems of human welfare. With advances in the medical sciences, has come the knowledge that many conditions, previously considered untreatable, can be improved…

No geological map has been published of the Aillik-Makkovik area, as previous work was not done in sufficient detail to make correlation possible with the rest of the North American Pre-Cambrain, or for that matter, between different sections of the…

Podsol soils have been intensively studied ever since the middle of the last century, yet the mechanism of their development is still obscure. In view of this lack of knowledge regarding podsolization and because these soils are the dominant agricultural…

Actually, the architect has been a climatologist much longer than being an expert or the other disciplines above. Very rarely does one see mention made of this role of the architect. Little training in this line is given the university…

Thirty years of intensive research have demonstrated the importance of the physiological role played by the steroids. The more recent investigations relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, which have led to the use of synthetic steroids in the…

The experimental work which follows represents one in a series of clinical and research investigations undertaken at the Montreal Neurological Institute aimed at the solution of the problem of epilepsy. In a previous thesis the author has reviewed the social…

Although Labrador was the first part of the new world to be discovered, its inhospitable climate and terrain have resulted in its being one of the least known areas of North America. Owing to the inaccessibility of the interior, it…