A leading and prolific scholar of parliament and the legislative process, C.E.S. Franks has also deeply explored public administration, government accountability, the public service, the country's North, issues affecting the aboriginal population, nuclear energy, and politics in India. The author of a classic work on canoeing, he has pioneered the study of relations between sports, society and politics. Professor Franks is unique in, on the one hand, having created an outstanding core of important academic works while at the same time penning impressive studies commissioned by parliament or government departments and, on the other hand, writing important and highly accessible items in the area of sports.

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.