Professor Raftis brings a happy combination of imagination and unusually varied training to the study of the social and economic structure of medieval England. He has applied statistical procedures to investigate agricultural policies and technics of property management in the estates of Ramsey Abbey over a six-hundred year period. During the past decade he has established a data-bank drawn from medieval manorial court-rolls which provides information for a comprehensive study of medieval peasantry. Thus he has made possible major advances in the understanding of rural life in medieval England. His numerous publications contain the results of these researches.

Balachandra Rajan, who was born in Burma, holds three degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a member of the Foreign Service of India from 1948-61, and during six of those years he served India at the United Nations. Subsequently he was a Professor of English in Delhi University, and in the universities of Wisconsin, Windsor, and Western Ontario. As an urbane and learned critic, and a prolific writer of books and articles, he has had a great influence in two fields of English Literature: the seventeenth century and Moderns. No important work on Milton, Yeats, or Eliot fails to acknowledge Dr. Rajan's work. Since 1966 he has been a regular reviewer of books on Milton for the "Times Literary Supplement". Ceased reviewing in 1975. Since his election to the Royal Society of Canada in 1975, he published The Overwhelming Question. Astudy of the Poetry of T.S. Eliot (Toronto: University of toronto Press, 1976), The Form of the Unfinished. english Poem from Spenser to Pound (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985), Under Western Eyes. India from Milton to Mccaulay (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999). He edited The Presence of Milton (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, Milton Studios XI, 1979), and co-edited Milton and the Imperial Vision (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1999) He was President of the Milton Society of America in 1972. Now a Canadian citizen, Dr. Rajan has gained for our country, by his erudition, sensitivity, authority, and graceful style, one more reputation of unquestioned international status.

After completing his university training at Cambridge, D.A. Ramsay joined the staff of the National Research Council laboratories in 1949. His prime interests are problems of molecular spectra and molecular structure. His analysis of the spectrum of the NH2 molecule represents not only the first analysis of the electronic spectrum of an asymmetric top molecule, but also demonstrated a new and unforeseen type of vibration-electronic interaction. His discovery that the ground state of the C2 molecule is a singlet rather than a triplet state as usually supposed is of widespread interest to physics, chemistry and astrophysics. His numerous publications are a true indication of the energy, insight and originality which he has applied to his scientific work.

M. André Raynauld, diplômé de I'Université de Montréal, est également docteur en sciences économiques de I'Université de Paris. ll est avant tout, je pense, professeur et économiste; mais c'est aussi un auteur qui a étudié, dans de gros bouquins, cette science de I'erreur qu'est l'économie politique, comme en parlent de mauvais plaisants, ce qui lui a valu de nombreux prix. Dans la liste de ses œuvres, on trouve aussi une collaboration à un ouvrage qui a fait beaucoup de bruit, il y a quelques années : « L'Université dit non aux Jésuites ». Nos bons maîtres ont laissé passer I'orage, comme I'on sait, mais, selon I'usage, ils n'ont pas lâché prise. Avec Jacques Henripin, André Raynauld a écrit une étude sur les perspectives de I'enseignement en Haute Volta pour le compte de I'UNESCO : cette providence des intellectuels et des pays sous-développés. Il est aussi I'auteur de très nombreux articles parus dans les revues les plus diverses : « McLean », « La Revue Française », « Cité Libre » et « Canadian Forum ». M. Raynauld ne s'est pas contenté d'enseigner et d'écrire. A des moments divers, il a fait partie d'un nombre impressionnant de comités, de conseils, d'associations, d'institutions, de bureaux de gouverneurs, de commissions royales d'enquête. Dirais-je, pour finir, qu'il a été au conseil de Radio-Canada, cette société dont on dit du bien ou du mal selon qu'on en est, qu'on en sort ou qu'on a du mal à y entrer. A cette règle, M. Raynauld est I'exception.

Paul Aveling Redhead is Head of the Electron Physics Section of the National Research Council. His contributions to high vacuum and electron physics have received international recognition. Among other technological achievements he has extended the range of precision measurement of ultra-high vacuum by two orders of magnitude Some of his measuring instruments have been included in several U.S. earth satellites and a lunar probe vehicle. His numerous original fundamental contributions to science include recent studies on gas interaction with solid surfaces. On technical committees and editorial boards his organizing ability has been outstanding.

Astrophysicien, directeur de recherches au CNRS (Paris) et conseiller scientifique au Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (Saclay, France), professeur invité d'universités européennes et nord-américaines, auteur de publications savantes, M. Hubert REEVES est plus qu'un scientifique de renommée internationale. Il est aussi un grand humaniste. Par des ouvrages remarqués et dans une langue poétique et imagée, il a su rendre accessible à un large public ses connaissances scientifiques sur l'histoire mystérieuse de l'univers, sa naissance, son avenir, et faire partager son émerveillement devant le monde où nous vivons.