A. Murray Fallis, B.A., Ph.D., is concerned chiefly with the taxonomy, life history, and pathological effects of parasites. As Professor of Parasitology at the University of Toronto, he is in charge of the training of both graduate and undergraduate students in parasitology. In both capacities Dr. Fallis has made and is making very significant contributions in this important field of biology. In many scientific publications he has reported the results of his researches on a wide variety of parasitic animals. Among these, his work on blood parasites has been outstanding. Dr. Fallis is now on an expedition in Central America and could not be reached in time for this meeting. I therefore move that he be received in 'absentia'.

Gerald Farnell is one of the founders of the contemporary scientific and technological field of Surface Acoustic Waves. His research played a key role in establishing a rigorous analytical and computational basis for that subject. Farnell was the first to show that surface acoustic waves can propagate on all nonisotropic materials and in all directions. This discovery paved the way for a large variety of applications, creating a major field of research and an entire industry. He continued to build on his finding, generating a string of important contributions. Farnell is recognized throughout the world as one of the area's preeminent researchers.

William Feindel, B.A., M.Sc., M.D., D.Phil., was trained at Acadia, Dalhousie, McGill and Oxford. He became a neuropathologist and neurosurgeon at the Montreal Neurological Institute, organized a Department of Neurosurgery at Saskatchewan and returned to Montreal as Neurosurgeon-in-Chief at the Montreal Neurological Institute where his studies of cerebral circulation by radioisotope and fluorescein angiographic methods are progressing brilliantly. He is a scholar in the history of medicine who would delight Sir William Osler if he could return to visit us (!). We recommend him to the Royal Society because of his contributions to science and, if the nominator may say so, because he is the sort of scientist, scholar and surgeon that our Royal Society needs.