ABSTRACT As a model system in classical plant genetics, the genus Antirrhinum has been well studied, especially in gametophytic self-incompatibility, flower development biology, and transposon-induced mutation. In contrast to the advances in genetic and molecular studies, little is known about Antirrhinum cytogenetics. In...

Washington was introduced to a masterpiece recently in a chamber music performance in the Washington Cathedral's Heard Hall. Opus 3, the trio in residence at the Washington Conservatory, gave the first area performance of Nicholas Maw's Piano Trio, composed two years ago. The...

Pope Clement IV who requested of Bacon a written, fair copy of his philosophy and received Opus Majus in return.

Whewell was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University, and the author of several distinguished works on the inductive sciences. In the following excerpt, he focuses upon Opus Majus, seeking "to point out… the way in which the various principles, which the reform of scientific method involved, are here brought into view."

A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and sometime Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, Bridges was a scholar of Auguste Compte's work and himself a philosophical positivist. He edited a Latin edition of Opus Majus which was first published in two volumes in 1897, but was withdrawn by the Clarendon Press after critics noted serious errors in the text due to Bridges's faulty reading of Bacon's manuscripts, his too-strict reliance upon Samuel Jebb's 1733 edition, and his omissio...