It’s Animals’ Ten Year Anniversary

About 30 years ago I had a discussion with my then head of department at Bangor University, the late Professor John Bryn Owen, about what an ideal journal would look like in our field, animal science, in the future [...]

History of Emotions: Where Are We?

As we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the CHE, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion (initially focusing on Europe 1100–1800 and with the late Professor Philippa Maddern as its founding Director) and the fifth anniversary of the launch of the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society (founding Editors: Katie Barclay, Andrew Lynch, Giovanni Tarantino), it is only pertinent that we look back and assess our efforts by hearing from some prominent emotions scholars who contributed in different ways and capacities to this pathbreaking intellectual journey.

The K–T boundary strata north of Korsnæb, Stevns Klint, Denmark – evolution and geometry revealed in a long, horizontal profile

A 460 m long profile of the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–T) boundary strata at Stevns Klint was measured by the late Professor A. Rosenkrantz probably in 1944. The measured profile was inherited by Finn Surlyk around 1974 together with other original boundary data. This material was dug up in a long-forgotten drawer in connection with detailed field work by the co-authors on the boundary succession in the late spring and summer of 2021. The profile illustrates the stratigraphy, geometry and palaeotopography of the boundary strata in unprecedented detail. The part of the cliff illustrated in the profile is today partly covered by beach ridges composed of flint rubble but is situated below the finest section of the lower Danian bryozoan mounds exposed at Stevns Klint. This coastal section is situated immediately adjacent to a large limestone quarry and was planned to be quarried away around 1937, but was saved by A. Rosenkrantz who demonstrated its great scientific and educational value to the authorities.

Profesorowi Witoldowi Wołodkiewiczowi (1929–2021) in memoriam

Professor Witold Wołodkiewicz (1929–2021) in memoriam This text presents an outline of the academic and professional path of the late Professor Witold Wołodkiewicz (1929–2021). Wołodkiewicz was born in Warsaw and died there. He was an outstanding Polish scholar, lawyer, and humanist, and as an eminent expert and teacher in Roman law and ancient culture, he was a co-founder of the post-war Romanist studies in Poland. Wołodkiewicz was the author of many publications, such as Materfamilias and Obligationes ex variis causarum figuris. He was also a student and collaborator of the famous Italian Romanist Edoardo Volterra and initiated extensive Polish-Italian academic cooperation.

Reflections on early studies of elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication

It is almost 50 years since theoretical work on elastohydrodynamic lubrication commenced in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of The University of Leeds. Details of the development of numerical solutions to the line contact problem during the 6-year period (1956–1962) that the authors worked together on the problem will be outlined. The computing aids available during the 18-month period involved in generating the first solution consisted of two hand-operated mechanical calculating machines, with the first digital computer at Leeds being installed in 1959. The general research environment during the period will be recalled and a number of significant events recorded. It is appropriate to record at this Symposium aspect of these initial developments in a subject that has dominated research in tribology throughout the latter part of the 20th century and into the early years of the 21st century. The excitement of being involved in taking some of the first steps in a field described by the late Professor F.T. Barwell (1970) as ‘The major event in the development of lubrication science since Reynolds's own paper’, will be recalled.

Reading the Tulsa V S Naipaul Archive

In 1993, the University of Tulsa purchased the V S Naipaul papers and installed the V S Naipaul Archive, principally a paper archive, a year later. In this essay, which is also a homage to the late Professor Tom O’Regan, I examine the value of archives, a scholar’s use of them and the ‘Freudian impressions’ or latent texts embedded in in them. Although once established an archive can acquire mystical power, in reading it, one has to be conscious of processes of selection and redaction built into the archive. One ‘Freudian impression’ that requires attending to is the role of Naipaul’s first wife Patricia Naipaul in the growth of the writer’s craft. The archival evidence suggests that his best works were written while she was alive.

Late Professor Dr. M.A.M. Muhtasham Hussain (1929-2021)

Not Available J. Bangladesh Acad. Sci. 45(1); i: June 2021

Late Professor Syed Nurun Nabi

Not Available J. Bangladesh Acad. Sci. 45(1); ii: June 2021