Richard Salisbury (1926-1989) was a pioneer in development anthropology and one of the founders of McGill University's anthropology department. His work had immense influence in the areas of economic anthropology, ethnographic practice (New Guinea, northern Canada) and policy formation. This volume commemorates and explores his life and work.

At the opening of the Montreal Neurological Institute in 1934, Edward Archibald, who had been a major force behind its establishment, said: "To gather knowledge and to find out new knowledge is the noblest occupation of the physician. To apply that knowledge with understanding and sympathy to the relief of human suffering is the loveliest occupation." Martin Entin's biography offers a detailed account of the extraordinary life and accomplishments of the master surgeon who so eloquently described his profession. Archibald (1872-1945) graduated from McGill University's medical program in 1896...

McGill University's impressive library collection contains approximately 334 Persian manuscripts acquired over a period of eighty years by esteemed scholars such as Casey A. Wood, Max Meyerhof, and Wladimir Ivanow. The manuscripts collected by Ivanow, a Russian scholar, come from Lucknow and Sandila in northeast India, where most of them had been copied, making them of great interest to paleographers and codicologists. Adam Gaceks' catalogue describes these manuscripts, which embrace all aspects of Islamic literature, including Qur'anic exegesis, tradition, jurisprudence, philosophy,...

The first of three projected volumes of Humphrey's diaries, Volume 1 (1948-49) covers the meetings in Geneva and Paris leading to the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (of which Humphrey had prepared the first draft); the daily activities of the UN Secretariat in Lake Success, N.Y.; and his visit to Strasbourg for the first Council of Europe. Humphrey details his interactions with international officials such as Trygve Lie and Henri Laugier, national representatives, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Pierre Mendes-France, and Rene Cassin, and a social circle that included...

Max Dunbar, distinguished marine biologist and renowned teacher and McGill University since 1946, recalls his long and multifaceted life in a series of autobiographical essays. Dunbar details his early years in Great Britain, his life at McGill, his time in Denmark, and above all, his expeditions to Greenland and the Arctic. Essays from a Life was published just before Dunbar's death in 1995. The volume includes an index and a complete list of his publications.

John Humphrey, McGill University law professor and human rights advocate, became the first director of the United Nations Human Rights Division in 1946 and held the position until 1966. Covering the period from 1952 to 1957, this third volume of his diaries documents a period of enormous change in the UN Secretariat. During this period, Secretariat employees came under scrutiny by un-American activities committees in the United States and Dag Hammarskjold replaced Tryve Lie as Secretary-General. With a mandate to cut back on the size of the Secretariat, Hammarskjold was unsympathetic to the...

Anamorphosis has raised crucial questions for architectural representation since the seventh century when epistemological conditions for modern thought and architecture were first articulated. By manipulating the theory of perspective, anamorphosis revealed potential discontinuity between an object present to perception and its visual appearance, complicating the relationship between building and drawing, and between design and construction. This annotated bibliography includes all known existing sources on anamorphosis, starting with Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks and culminating with works...

Bourne led the "Great Triumvirate" of Montreal anaesthetists - himself, Harold Griffith, and Digby Leigh, who dominated much of anaesthesia in the 1940s. Responding to wartime needs, they started training programs for the armed forces, which developed into an anaesthesia course after the war. The establishment in 1945 of the Department of Anesthesia at McGill, the first autonomous department of anaesthesia in Canada, was the culmination of Bourne's ambitions, dedication, and hard work. Thriving on technological advances and international recruitment, the department gained a reputation that...

These bibliographies, compiled in one volume, are a component of the computerized International Kierkegaard Bibliographic Database (IKBD) but stand alone because of their unique purpose. Part I consists of Bibliographic Remnants - items that have never been included in a published bibliography or supply additional information or substantive corrections to published bibliographies. Ninety-one of the 221 books, 143 of the 201 articles, and 139 of the 142 dissertations listed are unique to the IKBD. Part II consists of 115 items divided into six media categories: audio tapes, films (including...