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February 199 i nieiilii rT7r ... a ScietyPiologic Magazie February 199 No12~ History of the Physiological Society during its First Fifty Years 1876-1926 By SIR EDWARD SHARPEY-SCHAFER, F.A.Sg h.m.dby U.. BSy .,. b CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSY PRESS WNDON, F lE LASS. H.C.. P.o. FVW SAuOis0 d. Above: a facsimie edition of Sharpet-Schafer's Historyj ofthe Physiological Society during its First Fifty Years 1876-1920 is available (price: £6),from the Society's Administration Office. Right and below: the first three covers of The Journal of Physiology in its new formal. II I IIz Physiology at Bristol - David A rmstrong........................................................................................................ 1 Annual Review Prize Lecturer: Claus Wollheim - Ole Petersen .......................................................... 3 Physiology in the Holy City of Jerusalem - Shlomo Samueloff ............................................................. 3 Committee News Strategic Plan - Richard Boyd .......................................................................................................................... 6 Letters and Reports No special consideration for women - Geoffrey Burnstock....................................................................... 9 The British Psychological Society and the Media - Stephen White ........................................................ 9 ZENECA: Collaborative research with academia- Norman F Elmore ................................................. 10 Views An Anniversary Celebration of the Contribution of Women to British Physiology - Ly n n Bindman .......................................................................................................................................... 12 Untenured Physiologists: career aspirations and progression of men and women - Susan Wray and ColetteMcNerney .................................................................. 13 Under-representation of women in senior positions - Nancy Rothwell .............................................. 16 Women in Physiology: a personal view -BarbaraFulton...................................................................... 16 Women in Biomedical Science - Wendy Ewart andMary Phillips .......................................................... 17 Articles The problems of Physiology in 1993 and hopes for improvement in 1994: a personal view - A lison Brading........................................................................................................ 18 Human brain voltage-gated potassium channels in epilepsy -M ichele Rees and Mark Gardiner ........ 20 Coupling between apical and basolateral membrane ion transport in the kidney proximal tubule: role of cellular Call, pH, ATP and volume - RaynaldLaprade......................... 21 Events Special Interest Group news: Blood-Brain Barrier, Heart and Cardiac Muscle, Sensorimotor Control, Smooth Muscle, Somatosensory Physiology - John Greenwood, Godfrey Smith, Roger Lemon, Susan Wray, Rob Clarke ...................................................................... 24 Notices 27 Journal Contents The Journal of Physiology .................................................................................................................................. 29 Experim ental Physiology ................................................................................................................................... 33 Forms Netherlands Meeting: Grant Application ............................................................................................... 35 A ffi liation ......................................................................................................................................................... 37 Editor - this issue Magazine Editorial Group Kwabena Appenteng Saffron Whitehead - Chairman Department of Physiology Kwabenna Appenteng The University Phil Harrison Leeds LS2 9JT Malcolm Segal Fax (0532) 334228 Laurence Smaje Susan Wray Editor - next issue Editorial and Production Office Saffron Whitehead Editorial Assistant - Heather Dalitz Department of Physiology Production Assistant - Jane Ault St George's Hospital Medical School The Physiological Society Cranmer Terrace, Tooting Administration and Publications Office London PO Box 506 Fax (081) 682 3698 Oxford OX1 3XE Letters and articles should be submitted on disk, with Tel: (0865) 798498 Fax: (0865) 79892 hard copy, wherever possible. 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After 1975 he was followed in succession veterinary departments) we are placed in that faculty by Tim Biscoe, Bruce Matthews, Roger Thomas and for managerial purposes but also have full currently by David Armstrong, now in the fourth representation on the boards and committees of the year of a five year term. Science Faculty, in which almost all of our PhD Staff students are registered. We see this dual representation as vital to our future and it has recently been The staff comprises at the moment 19 HEFC funded emphasised by the creation of a joint Medical and academics:
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