F. Clarke Fraser, Professor of Genetics at McGill University and Director of Medical Genetics at the Montreal Children's Hospital, is a very distinguished and productive geneticist who has made full use of opportunities for combining his thorough academic knowledge of the field with its practical medical applications, and with active engagement in research in human genetics. His extensive bibliography ranges in topical scope from "Shrivelled: A Hereditary Degeneration of the Lens in the House Mouse" to "Spontaneous Abortion Risks in Man". Dr. Fraser has held such important offices as the Presidency of the Teratology Society, and of the American Society of Human Genetics.

Dr. Friedman was born in Montreal in 1916, achieved his B.A. Degree in 1938, M.D., C.M. from McGill in 1940, M.Sc., McGill 1941 and Ph.D. from the same in 1946. He served on the McGill staff in Anatomy from 1944 to 1950 as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor. He joined the University of British Columbia staff in 1950. He has published extensively with 79 research papers, primarily on cardiovascular and renal physiology. Two textbooks by Dr. Friedman, "Visual Anatomy, Head and Neck", and "Visual Anatomy, Thorax and Abdomen" are well known in medical circles. In 1955 he received the Ciba Foundation award for Research in Ageing.

Bill Fyfe is a most distinguished earth scientist who has made important contributions to research, to education and to international scientific public policy making. His early research applied modern inorganic and physical concepts to help understand the distribution of the elements in rocks and minerals. His book "Geochemistry of Solids" appeared in 1964 and was a landmark which helped change the direction of chemical earth science, by its wide influence. More recently, since he came to Canada in 1972, he and his students have focussed attention on the importance of fluids, not only in transport and deposition or metals, but also on the history of oceans and on rheological properties of magma. His extensive international field expeditions have led him into consulting activities of various kinds, from radwaste to agricultural chemistry, and from there into public science policy. He is a most effective protagonist for sane and rational resource husbandry. Within Canada he has recently been an active and far-seeing supporter of high quality science of every kind, and is a stimulating and imaginative advocate.

Fyles is acting head of the Geomorphology and Quaternary Research Division of the Geological Survey or Canada. In this position he is responsible for planning and directing much of the government of Canada's program of research in these fields. During the past few years he has been in a large part responsible for the active growth in Canada in this research. His own research has been largely in the Arctic aimed particularly at outlining major elements of geological history such as nature and extent of glaciation, regional variation in extent of marine submergence, occurrence of interglacial and preglacial deposits, and investigation of past and present geological processes under Arctic conditions. Fyles is also carrying out basic research on eskers. He acts as an advisor on the Limno-geology program of the Inland Waters Branch.

M. François-M. Gagnon est historien de I 'art, comme son père Maurice Gagnon. Après des études universitaires à Ottawa et à Paris, il obtient son doctorat de la Sorbonne en 1970 pour une thèse intitulée : « Les personnages dans I'oeuvre de Jean Dubuffet de 1943 à 1952 ». Professeur titulaire au département d'histoire de l'art de I'Université de Montréal, il en fut le directeur de 1970 à 1973. Spécialiste en histoire de l'art canadien, il a été professeur invité dans des universités tant canadiennes (Laval, Ottawa, Concordia) qu'étrangères (Tel Aviv et Haifa). Il siège sur de nombreux comités pour le développement des arts au Canada et en particulier au Comité de rédaction de « Vie des arts » depuis 1970 et de «The Journal of Canadian Art History » depuis sa fondation en 1974.