Professor Grayson's major scientific interests center about Late Assyrian (and Babylonian) history in which area of study he is acknowledged by his peers to be second to none. He has edited numerous-cuneiform texts together with translation, and he has been a major contributor to the Cambridge Ancient History volumes, in short, his scholarly achievements are impressive. Grayson is prodigal with his knowledge, liberally sharing his insights with his colleagues. In my opinion, Grayson's election to the Royal Society of Canada would add luster to its role; in fact he would be the only cuneiform scholar among its members.

Naomi Griffiths is the most important English-speaking historian of the Acadians. Her reputation has led to lecture tours sponsored by governments and universities across the Atlantic as well as in North America. Even more impressive, her work is fully accepted by the Acadians themselves. There is not a grain of prosiness in her writing; it is brisk, trenchant, as if she were impatient to get at the truth. Her history of the Acadians is based upon extensive research in municipal archives on both sides of the Atlantic, and her most recent monographs have widened our perceptions of Acadian society, indeed, laid foundations for a distinctive interpretation of Acadian historical experience. There is really no one close to her in quality; one wonders what Acadian history could have been without her.

In Anthropology world-wide Philip Gulliver is identified with network theory. Between 1948 and 1970 his researches in East Africa on various groups produced eight significant books and thirty articles on pastoralism, social structure, law and labour migration. Since his 1971 arrival in Canada to teach at Calgary and York, two of his most important works have appeared, "Neighbours and Networks" and "Disputes and Negotiations",examining how interpersonal ties, structured outside formal groupings, are nevertheless organized and influence action. His prolific publication continues, and he has become a pillar of the discipline in Canada.

lan Hacking's reinterpretations of the history of the most fundamental aspects of philosophical and scientific thought combine keenness of philosophical penetration with boldness of historical interpretation. His books on the logical foundations of statistical inference and of the historical conditions that made it possible for philosophers to take probability seriously have been recognized as making profound and lasting contributions to their subject. His more recent work on the changing significance of language in philosophy and of the relation between experiment and theory confirms his position as one of the leading figures in the philosophy of science today. He is Professor, University of Toronto, in Philosophy and in the History of Philosophy of Science of Technology.

Widely known in the scholarly world for the role she has played in professional education, the first Dean of the University of Toronto's new Faculty of Library Science is making an outstanding contribution to Canadiana in the fields of history and literature. Canadian scholars in both the Humanities and Social Sciences owe much to her encouragement and her high standards of excellence. Professor Halpenny has been General Editor of the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography" since 1969, and of this vast undertaking the last volume of the three which have come forth from the press (No. X[1871-80], published in 1972) was compiled entirely under her direction. DO NOT USE.

Professor Jean-Jacques Hamm has written on a wide variety of authors, themes, and critical approaches, but above all he is known internationally for his numerous books and articles on Stendhal. In theses studies he has applied novel methods of hermeneutics, psychoanalytical approaches, sociological critiques, and computerized analysis of texts. He has also been a pioneer in the study of parody in literature. Moreover, he has been a leader in his profession as an organizer of conferences, founder of research groups, and as an editor. Finally, he is an accomplished stylist in both his scholarly work and in his own creations.

Professor Richard Cole Harris is an eminent figure in the study of historical geography in Canada. He has made significant contributions to our understanding of the seigneurial system in Quebec, and on a broader scale, he has contributed to a better knowledge of the evolution of Canadian society in relation to the land it occupies. His research has taken him to Quebec, Ontario, and now back to a study of the historical geography of his native province, British Columbia. He edited the first volume of the "Historical Atlas of Canada" (1987). His most recent book, "The Resettlement of British Columbia" (UBC Press, 1997) is a collection of his essays on aboriginalism, land, and social change in early modern British Columbia.

Larry Haworth has the rare ability to fruitfully relate ideas to action. "The Good City" (1963) is a seminal study which was the first to explicate the city as a philosophical and moral problem. Legions of city planners have gratefully drawn on his thought. "Decadence and Objectivity" (1977) is a landmark philosophical analysis of our failed attempts to combine a life of vigor with one of genuine leisure. In "Autonomy" (1986), Haworth develops a strikingly original concept of autonomism. His recent work on value assumptions in risk assessment continues his career-long contribution toward a more respectful and thoughtful ordering of urban affairs.

Professor G.K. Helleiner has an outstanding record in research, teaching and public service. He is a world authority on the role of transnational manufacturing firms in the development of poor countries. He has also made many contributions to the economic literature concerning Africa. He is an outstanding Canadian scholar in the field of economic development. In addition to his scholarly activities, Professor Helleiner is deeply involved in the work of private and public agencies devoted to problems of development and he has given perception and authority to many deliberations.

Joyce Hemlow, Professor of English at McGill University, taught in rural schools in Nova Scotia before coming to Queen's for her B.A. and M.A. Awarded the Marty Memorial Travelling Fellowship, she went to Radcliffe for her doctorate. She had access to the Burney papers in the Berg Collection in New York, and on a Guggenheim Fellowship in England (1951) tracked down some thousands of additional Burney papers hitherto unknown and now lodged in the British Museum. Her "History of Fanny Burney" (1958) at once received critical acclaim, and earned for her the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography in England as well as the Governor-General's Medal in Canada. Seldom has the dedication of painstaking scholarship yielded such fruits in literary discovery or found more felicitous expression in distinguished biography. Later she compiled "A Catalogue of the Burney Family Correspondence 1749-1878" (New York, 1971), and she edited "The Letters and Journals of Fanny Burney" 12 volumes (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1872-1984), and "Selected Letters & Journals of Fanny Burney" (Oxford, 1986). Her other writings include five articles on the Hemlow family in Sherbrooke and Liscomb, N.S., published in the "Nova Scotia Historical Review" from 1990 to 1998.

JOHN HEWSON, Professor, Department of Linguistics, Memorial University, is a scholar of international reputation and prolific writer in Theoretical, Historical, Amerindian and Romance Linguistics. He is a major commentator on the psychosystematic theories of Gustave Guillaume and on Saussure. Inspired by them he has produced several volumes devoted to cognitive analysis of English and French morphology. He achieved a remarkable breakthrough in developing computer technology for the reconstruction of prehistoric protolanguages. His computer-generated dictionary of Proto-Algonkian became an indispensable research tool in the field. Of particular significance are his monographs on the Algonkian languages of the province, Beothuk and Micmac.