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...with the outside world by means of "sea messages." Letters placed in strong wooden boxes were thrown from the sheer cliffs. The prevailing westerly winds generally carried these to the Hebrides or the mainland of Scotland in one week. For hundreds of years St. Kilda has belonged to the MacLeods, who, living on the nearly as rigorous Isle of Skye, have seen nothing untoward in life on St. Kilda (Norman Magnus, present MacLeod of MacLeod, is hale and hearty at 91). The Marquess of Ailsa* bought St. Kilda last year, immediately decided to move the population to Ayrshire where...
...Professor Collip, what? Possibly the Nobel Prize for Medicine. He was one of the co-discoverers, with Professor Frederick Grant Banting of the University of Toronto of insulin, another hormone. And Professor Banting received with his colleague John James Rickard Macleod the 1923 Nobel Prize for Medicine...
...Canadian doctors was the late William Osier (1849-1919), who taught at McGill. By grading of the Nobel prize the living Canadians who have contributed most to medicine are Frederick Grant Banting, 38, Professor of Medical Research at the Uni-versity of Toronto, and his preceptor, John James Rickard Macleod, 53, Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto until 1928. Since then Dr. Macleod has returned to his native Scotland to be Regius Professor of Physiology at the University at Aberdeen. They developed insulin...
Died. Norman Magnus Macleod of Macleod, 90, "The Macleod," 23rd chief of his clan; at Horsham, England...
...Freshmen will race as follows: stroke, Richardson; 7, Hall; 6, Captain Otis; 5, MacLeod; 4, Evans; 3, Bennett; 2, Morris; bow Birdsell; cox., Whittaker...