The proteins of the hen's egg are classical objects of chemical and biochemical research, partly because of the ready availability and practical importance of the egg, but also because of its great scientific interest. As a consequence, the state of…

The present investigation in Soil Zoology was initiated in 1960 at Macdonald College, McGill University. The problems relative to the study of the soil fauna are complex, requiring at the very outset, not only familiarity with the soil itself but…

It was the fortune of Andrew Melville, no less than of John Knox, to have received sufficient training outside his native land to make a European out of one who might otherwise have been a parochial Scotsman. The intellectual stimuli…

The purpose of this thesis is the study of the four novels of Thomas Wolfe. Wolfe’s work is centered in a single protagonist; a figure that is largely autobiographical, and is dominated by a number of themes. In ‘Look Homeward’,…

The beginning of our knowledge of the vitamin folic acid dates back to the discovery of Wills (1) in 1931 that the macrocytic anemia of pregnancy frequently observed in the tropics responded to oral administration of concentrated extracts of autolysed…

The reticular activating system has attracted the interest of psychologists for more than a decade. Theories have been developed, and the concept of arousal has become quite popular in a number of fields of psychology. There are, however, not many…

More than two hundred and fifty years have elapsed since George Berkeley first published his Principles of Human Knowledge and thereby divided the intelligible world into “notions” and “ideas". In the ensuing period, the more articulate world has shown a…

Note: Missing Page 118., In 1837 a paper by Poisson [61] was published in France, establishing the Poisson distribution. Since then a great deal of research has been done on this distribution and the distributions stemming from it. It enjoys…

When I came to Canada five years ago, leaving a turbulent and politically unlucky land behind me, I knew nothing about the Canadian Senate. My interest in it does not extend farther back than three years. This comparatively short acquaintance…