Tom McFeat is a Canadian ethnologist of originality and distinction. His interest in traditional ethnology has been linked to sociology and social psychology in the tradition of the Harvard Laboratory of Social Relations. As Chief Ethnologist of the National Museum of Canada from 1959 to 1963, and in university positions, he has stimulated the understanding of the Indian cultures of North America, by his writing and his firm encouragement of the work of others. His work linking ethnography to the theory and method of other disciplines has culminated in his recent book on "Small Group Cultures". This demonstrates that the remote and controlled experiments of the small group laboratory can be applied with insight to the analysis of real situations from those of the army in sophisticated action to the complexities of tribal culture. Tom McFeat's work, widely respected, is daring, provocative, and yet carefully disciplined.

Patrick and Edith McGeer's neurological research is recognized worldwide as responsible for many signal advances in the understanding of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, and for the important kainic acid model of Huntington's disease. Their groundbreaking hypotheses on neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases and anti-inflammatory therapy are now strongly supported and part of the main focus for research into Alzheimer's disease.

A graduate of Toronto, Yale and Princeton and sometime Secretary of the Classical Association of Canada, Dr. McKay has been an outstandingly successful teacher at Princeton and Pennsylvania as well as Canadian universities. He is a specialist in classical literature and art, has published four books and had two others accepted for publication, is the author of numerous articles and reviews and serves on the editorial boards of American classical periodicals. His international reputation is attested by the Vergilian Society's repeated appointment of him as director of its summer school at Cuma (Italy) and by his many invitations to lecture at American and British universities.

An innovator and leader in the study of seaplants. Dr. McLachlan has applied the tecniques of taxonomy, ecology, biogeography, physiology, cytology, and laboratory cultivation to develop our understanding of marine algal biology. He pioneered in the cultivation of marine algae through their life cycle in the laboratory and his work has been of prime importance in establishing industrial cultivation, utilization, and conservation of seaweeds as a major natural resource. Dr. McLachlan is recognized internationally as a leader in the field of marine phycology, and has been involved for many years in international phycological discussions and in the organization of the International Seaweed Symposia.

Digby J. McLaren, M.A. (Cantab), Ph.D. (Michigan) internationally recognized Stratigrapher and Palaeontologist, and currently the proposed Vice-President of the Palaeontological Society, has done research throughout the Arctic and Western Canada, applying lithological and Palaeontological techniques towards establishing the accepted classification and interpretation of Devonian and other Palaeozoic rocks. His research on Stratigraphy, interpretation of carbonate rocks, rhynchonelloid brachiopeds, rugose corals, fossil fungi and possible Precambrian metazoans is described in numerous publications including a contribution to an internationally authored "Treatise". He has proved a capable research manager, first as head Palaeontologist of the Geological Survey and now as Director of the New Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology.