Coming to Canada in 1969 from ten years as Lecturer in French at the Queen's University of Belfast, Anthony Pugh was already well known for significant and readable articles and reviews in scholarly journals. He has since won international acclaim for himself and for the University of New Brunswick, for a substantial book on Balzac's recurring characters published in 1974. 1984 has seen the publication of another book of equal stature on Pascal. Each of these books is a work of remarkably searching scholarship of primary importance to specialists in its field and to any teacher of French, but also to general readers who are, or who want to be, fascinated by Balzac's creation of his fictional world and by the elusive key to order and unity in Pascal's "Pensées". Since 1984 he has been preparing a detailed guide to the manuscripts of Proust, 1909-1914, establishing the chronological sequence for a vast corpus of exercise-books, loose sheets, typescripts and proofs. It will be an indispensible tool for anyone wishing to study the genesis of Proust's great novel.

EDWIN GEORGE PULLEYBLANK, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, returned to his native Canada in 1966, after occupying the chair in Chinese at Cambridge University. His combination of mastery of two fields, of early Chinese history and of Chinese linguistics, has made him outstanding in a highly selected group of world scholars. His early historical books were followed by an increasing involvement in linking historical data with linguistic features that has culminated in his internationally recognized "Dictionary of Middle Chinese".

Probablement le plus éminent spécialiste en droit administratif du Québec, le professeur Gilles Pépin se distingue par une contribution singulière à la fois à l'enseignement, à la recherche et à l'exécution des solutions qu'il propose. Formé aux universités d'Ottawa, de Bordeaux et de Paris, à l'Académie de droit international de La Haye et au London School of Economics and Political Sciences, auteur d'une thèse de doctorat sur « Le Conseil de l'Organisation de l'aviation civile internationale », le professeur Pépin enseigne sans interruption depuis 1961. En plus d'un nombre imposant d'articles, de chroniques et de rapports, il a publié « Les tribunaux administratifs et la Constitution, étude des articles 92 à 101 de l'A.A.N.B. » (Montréal, Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1969, 426 pages), ouvrage qui a décroché un premier prix au concours littéraire et scientifique du Québec (1970), et « Principes de contentieux administratif » (en collaboration avec Me Yves Ouellette, Montréal, Ed. Yvon Blais, 1979, 478 pages). Le professeur Pépin a de plus été doyen de la section de droit civil de la Faculté de droit de l'Université d'Ottawa (1968-1969) et directeur du Centre de recherche en droit public de l'Université de Montréal (1969-1972).

Professor Raftis brings a happy combination of imagination and unusually varied training to the study of the social and economic structure of medieval England. He has applied statistical procedures to investigate agricultural policies and technics of property management in the estates of Ramsey Abbey over a six-hundred year period. During the past decade he has established a data-bank drawn from medieval manorial court-rolls which provides information for a comprehensive study of medieval peasantry. Thus he has made possible major advances in the understanding of rural life in medieval England. His numerous publications contain the results of these researches.

Balachandra Rajan, who was born in Burma, holds three degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a member of the Foreign Service of India from 1948-61, and during six of those years he served India at the United Nations. Subsequently he was a Professor of English in Delhi University, and in the universities of Wisconsin, Windsor, and Western Ontario. As an urbane and learned critic, and a prolific writer of books and articles, he has had a great influence in two fields of English Literature: the seventeenth century and Moderns. No important work on Milton, Yeats, or Eliot fails to acknowledge Dr. Rajan's work. Since 1966 he has been a regular reviewer of books on Milton for the "Times Literary Supplement". Ceased reviewing in 1975. Since his election to the Royal Society of Canada in 1975, he published The Overwhelming Question. Astudy of the Poetry of T.S. Eliot (Toronto: University of toronto Press, 1976), The Form of the Unfinished. english Poem from Spenser to Pound (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985), Under Western Eyes. India from Milton to Mccaulay (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999). He edited The Presence of Milton (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, Milton Studios XI, 1979), and co-edited Milton and the Imperial Vision (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1999) He was President of the Milton Society of America in 1972. Now a Canadian citizen, Dr. Rajan has gained for our country, by his erudition, sensitivity, authority, and graceful style, one more reputation of unquestioned international status.

After completing his university training at Cambridge, D.A. Ramsay joined the staff of the National Research Council laboratories in 1949. His prime interests are problems of molecular spectra and molecular structure. His analysis of the spectrum of the NH2 molecule represents not only the first analysis of the electronic spectrum of an asymmetric top molecule, but also demonstrated a new and unforeseen type of vibration-electronic interaction. His discovery that the ground state of the C2 molecule is a singlet rather than a triplet state as usually supposed is of widespread interest to physics, chemistry and astrophysics. His numerous publications are a true indication of the energy, insight and originality which he has applied to his scientific work.