URSULA M. FRANKLIN, Professor, Metallurgy and Materials Science and Director of Collegium Archaeometricum, University of Toronto, is an applied scientist who has truly bridged and cemented the disciplines of materials science, archeology, and anthropology through her outstanding and insightful scholarly work. From a foundation laid in her earlier researches on the crystaline micro-structure of alloys and melts, which pioneered the use of microradiography, she has delved into the science of ancient materials including the remarkable Chinese bronzes, discerning from artifacts the early techniques of metal-working and ceramic firing. She is a principal authority on archeometry, sought out worldwide by research collaborators. She has fully supported in her extensive work and writings her view that such artifacts are equivalent to literary sources, capable of describing culture but needing to be read and evaluated by a variety of techniques based on modern materials science, and she has accomplished this as few others have. By many Canadians she is recognized as an eminent scholar who is an eloquent spokesperson for social concerns about burgeoning technology, for a conserver society, and for international peace.

John Fraser is George Munro Professor of English at Dalhousie. An essayist - in the great tradition of the essayist - he has written on a wide range of topics: from film to photography; from literary criticism to pornography and the erotic; from Shakespeare to "Huckleberry Finn" and B. Traven; from the organic community to Celine's "Death on the Installment Plan". His books "Violence and the Arts", "America and the Patterns of Chivalry", and "The Name of Action" are a mine of thought about matters cultural, historical, and sociological - enlivened and disciplined by his training in philosophy and literary criticism. He delivered the 1990 Alexander Lectures at the University of Toronto, on the topic "Nihilism, Modernism, and Value". At Dalhousie John Fraser has been a mainstay at the graduate programme, a teacher popular with graduates and undergraduates, and a champion of democracy within the university.

An author of "Pre-Raphaelitism, a bibliocritical study" (Harvard, 1965), "Pre-Raphaelitism: An anthology of critical essays" (forthcoming from California), and a number of major and minor articles in the learned journals, Dr. Fredeman has established himself internationally as a leading authority on Pre-Raphaelitism and as one of the most brilliant younger scholars engaged in nineteenth-century studies. The quality of his research has been reflected, not only in the very favourable reception of his published work, but in awards of fellowships by the Canada Council and the Guggenheim Foundation. e will make am active, scholarly and vigorous contribution to the Royal Society.

Dr. Friesen is an internationally renowned Canadian endocrinologist whose major research contributions relate to lactogenic and growth hormones from the placenta and pituitary. Subsequent to his identification of human prolactin, and the development of radioimmuno-assays for it, he has been a central figure in characterizing the synthesis and secretion of prolactin in health and disease as well as studying target tissue receptors for these hormones. He has, and continues to carry on an investigative career of singular productivity, systematically elucidating the biochemistry, physiology and pathophysiology of lactogenic hormones. Dr. Friesen continues to play a pivotal role in ongoing national studies of the therapeutic use of human growth hormone and in establishing the therapeutic efficacy of agents which control prolactin secretion. One of these now has been accepted world wide to be effective in decreasing elevated prolactin levels to normal, thereby correcting impaired fertility experienced by these patients. He has published over 190 scientific articles.

Dr. Barrie Frost, a Full Professor in Psychology and Associate Professor of Physiology at Queen's University has an international reputation of the highest order for his work on vision research and the aid of the profoundly deaf. His research has been well supported by national granting agencies and has led to the publication of numerous scientific papers and to invited presentations at many national and international conferences. He has held a number of important offices in the national research granting bodies and is currently the Group Chairman of Life Sciences in the National Sciences & Engineering Research Council. Recently he was appointed by the minister of Health as a National Health Research Scholar.