Folk Music in Canada Today

W.A.S. Sarjeant participait souvent aux clubs folkloriques en Angleterre, son pays dorigine, et était fort deçu, lors de son arrive au Canada, par labsence de ce genre de club. Son article traite de ses propres idées sur la musique folklorique, genre que lon entend très peu au Canada, à son avis. Larticle propose plusieurs stratégies pour le redressement de cette situation

From Excystment to Bloom? Personal Recollections of Thirty-Five Years of Dinoflagellate and Acritarch Meetings

The report presents personal recollections of thirty-five years of dinoflagellate and acritarch meetings as presented at the Sixth International Conference on Modern and Fossil Dinoflagellates in Trondheim, June 7-12 1998. The review is based very largely upon personal diary notes, covering the early CIMPA meetings (1963-1966), happenings in the United States in 1968, International meetings in Europe (1969-1974), a gathering in Canada in 1976, the Penrose and Hexrose conferences from 1978 to 1981 (the meetings which later became the Dino l and Dino 2 events) and more recent P C meetings and Conferences on Modern andFossil Dinoflagellates. The informal history, enlivened with anecdotes and personal opinions, is accompanied by a bibliography listing references to publications of special relevance to the history of palynology and by fourteen plates showing some of the scientists prominent in the history of dinoflagellate research

Where Did The Dwarves Come From?

Speculates where in Middle-earth the various dwarves who arrived at Bilbo’s house at the beginning of The Hobbit actually came from, and what they might have been doing prior to that meeting