Professor Clarence Barber's academic career, which began in 1948, has been mainly at The University of Manitoba where he is now professor and chairman of the Department of Economics. He has been a visiting professor at Queen's and McGill Universities, and served with distinction with the Royal Commission on Flood Cost-Benefit, Province of Manitoba; The Gordon Commission; and recently as sole Commissioner of the Royal Commission on Farm Machinery. His books and many articles on international trade, monetary and fiscal policy, and industrial organization have placed him in the front rank of Canadian economists, particularly his pathbreaking articles on the implication of free trade for Canada and on the relation between Canadian monetary policy and the inflow of foreign capital. He won the admiration and respect of his academic colleagues for his outstanding performance as president of the Canadian Association of University Teachers. His scholarship and unerring sense of the academic interest mark him without doubt as one worthy of fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada.

In 1962, following his discovery of the first O2+ salt, Neil Bartlett oxidized xenon and initiated Noble-Gas Chemistry. This was akin to the finding of a new element and changed our view of the Periodic Table of the Elements. His other many contributions to the chemistry of the elements at high-oxidation limits include room temperature syntheses of NiF62- and AgF4- salts. In 1996 he found a room temperature route to the efficient conversion of organic molecules to their perfluoro-relatives.

The published research of G. L. Baskerville has added substantively to understanding of the dynamics of development in stands of trees and in whole forests. The work has applied principles from more basic science to achieve representations of forest dynamics at the geographic scales and temporal horizons which characterize forest resources management. His work has converted improved understanding of natural systems dynamics into significant improvement in the setting of objectives, the design of management protocols to reach the objectives, and for implementing those protocols, all on the temporal and geographic scales that characterize forests.

David Bates is distinguished not only as a teacher and physician but especially an investigator of human respiratory function. His method for a closed circuit mixing index developed in 1948 is still widely used. He perfected the carbon monoxide method for measuring the effects of disease of the lung and devised the powerful xenon 133 technique for assessing pulmonary ventilation and blood-flow, being the first to put these on a quantitative basis. He was the first to measure the effects of ozone, and its hazards in high flying aircraft. He is recognized in Amerlca and Europe as a leading authority on lung function in health and disease. He has recently initiated epidemiological studies of the effect of air pollution on health which have been influential in terms of public policy.

Dr. Alan H. Batten is recognized as an authority on the properties of double stars and especially on the interpretation of spectroscopic observations of eclipsing stars. Current astronomical research on double stars centres on the flow of matter between and around close binary stars, its interaction with the system and the evolutionary processes involved in such transfer of mass. Dr. Batten has made major contributions to this subject, notably with his papers on U Cephei and B Lyrae - stars that have been studied for many years but for which Batten has given new and realistic interpretations of the observed phenomena.