Part Of My Work Research Articles

Jean Paulhan's Allegories of Translation

Although it has become something of a commonplace in translation theory nowadays to dignify the activity of translation by defining it as an act of critical intervention upon a given text written in a source-language,1 this analogy still remains to be 'translated' itself into academic practice. Translation is still all too often considered secondary or derivative with respect both to the creative originality of a given source text, and to socalled 'original' scholarship, and the emergence of Translation Studies as a valid autonomous field of teaching and research has, if anything, further contributed to the segregation, even ghettoization, of translation. There seems to be at work a subterranean, yet powerful, set of pressures forcing translation to the sidelines. Translators continue to be undervalued and underpaid, and usually misunderstood, but at the same time translation is something most of us involved in literary studies today do all the time to a lesser or greater extent, and which is often simply taken for granted. As someone who has published a number of translations, while also being engaged in scholarly research, I consider translation to be an integral part of my work, not only in that it is helping to make writers in whom I have a vested interest, such as Jean Paulhan, more accessible to a wider readership (though this would be reason enough), nor a fortiori because it is an activity that is so intimately bound up with the very creative processes involved in reading and writing. The problem of translation crops up continually within my own literary research, and it surfaces specifically within the texts of Paulhan at a number of significant moments. I would like in this article to look at a number of what I would call 'scenes' of translation, both from Paulhan's texts, and from a translation by Christine Laennec and myself of some of Paulhan's recits,2 as a way of deliberately blurring a number of lines of demarcation that normally separate literary translation from literary criticism, and from translation as a mode of language teaching, so as to question certain presuppositions about the place of translation in literature and language studies, and to offer several suggestions about how these implications might be followed up in the teaching of literature and language.

The Artistic Experimentation of Camilo Jose Cela: An Interview with the Writer in Texas on August 16, 1992

CJC: I don't believe that only the early part of my work was referred to because San Camilo, 1936[1969] and Mazurca para dos muertos [1983; Mazurka for Two Dead Men], which date from at least my second period weighed heavily in its deliberations.2 As regards the motives the Swedish Academy may have had for giving me the prize, I, of course, know of no others than the ones that were publicly stated at the time [of the award]. I'm not sure if that's what you were referring to when you asked about how I set out from my literary principles. I almost always begin with a point of reality, a point which may well be very minimal, but is sufficient to enable me to develop all my . . . trek. I have always thought that it isn't necessary to have a plan for the novel, but to create characters well. Then the door of the house is opened, the character moves through life, and one goes along noting down what he does; and the whole is the novel, starting out always, I repeat, from a point of reality which is idealized, of course, or which is deformed, to taste, according to circumstances.

Aboriginal Students Perceptions of the ‘World of Work’ and Implications for the Teaching of Work/Career Education

As part of my work this year I was required to undertake an evaluation project. I decided to combine some of my concerns about the appropriateness for Aboriginal students of some of the ways in which state education curriculum priorities are implemented with one of my focus curriculum areas, namely Work Education.In South Australia the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy ( AEP ) is seen as the overarching Aboriginal Education Policy. However, most Aboriginal students in South Australia and all state schools are required to address mandatory curriculum are as set out in the “Educating for the 21st Century” (1990), the curriculum policy document.

Hands on? it’s a man’s life

I am horrified at the suggestion made by Joseph Winters (Nursing: a boy’s own world', Viewpoint, August 5) that as a male nurse I ‘shy away from the hands-on stuff. I am first and foremost a nurse and as such I see hands-on work as part of my work and get on with it as any nurse would. In fact the practical side of my work is that which I find most rewarding, not the theory.

Quelques caractéristiques de la peinture des lettrés en Corée, comparées à la Chine

The XVIIIth century during which deep social cultural changes took place in the Korean society, reaches the apogee of the Korean literati painting. The art of that time is to be particularly distinguished by its remarkable originality with regard to the other periods of its long pictural history. In opposition to the points of view, traditionnally Chinese in the literati painting, the Korean art saw its evolution in ite own cultural conditions, through its purely Korean, artistical conceptions and languages. In the field of the literati painting, the artistic creation of the professional painters is as important as the one of the literati, which is not the case in China. In order to give a better description of the Korean painting of the time, I used the distinction between the Southern and Northern schools in an historical comparison with China. Whereas in China the development of both schools was parallel although being opposed to each other, in Korea, the evolution was different — both styles instead of being opposed were going to interpenetrate themselves, an eclectic style followed to reach an extreme wealth. I tried too to make you discover the Korean painting theories through eminent art critics. The supreme value of beauty pursued by the literati painters as well as by the professionals, was connected to the aesthetics of the literati according the ideal of neo-confucianism. This part of my work (lid part) together with the properly comparative one (IVth part) was focussed on aesthetics (through various theories) and on the pictural analysis of the "painting" itself. As a matter of fact, nothing but a thematic analysis can reveal the characteristics proper to each painting. The composition, the combination laws, the preferences of some motives, the patterns were analysed in a comparative perspective. We tried to support the comparison, using two systems of representations recommended by the Korean and Chinese painters. Always object of reference, China, equally in the scope of this painting, holds an outstanding position, but owing to the contribution of the literati in the XVIIIth century, the Korean painting succeeds to free itself and to make its own conceptions evolve, conceptions where the cultural particularisms of Korea are reflected.

Indigenous anthropologists in socialist Romania

I came into sharp confrontation with the authorities while carrying out research in Romania on the nature of interethnic rela? tions and economic specialization [2]. No one was particularly curious about my resi? dence within a Saxon German household of an increasingly Romanian village, nor with interviews carried out among Hungarian speaking villagers of the commune where I carried out research for a year. But, when attempting to grasp the place of Gypsies in this socioeconomic matrix, disapproval was universally voiced. In isolated instances the response to my work on Gypsies was severe and at one point, while being detained, I was reprimanded and told to "go and study minorities and their problems in my own country!" [3]. The vigor with which this part of my work was rejected made me question the nature of Anglo-American research in socialist countries [4] and present? ly the role of indigenous anthropologists in studying interethnic relations. Although Anglo-American anthropology is not repre? sented as a discipline in Romania, rural sociological and ethnological disciplines that share common roots with anthropology have large numbers of devotees. Their problematic role, particularly in the study of ethnic groups, is the subject of this article. Fortunately, I had an opportunity to discuss this matter with a number of Romanian scholars and became a participant in two brief cooperative field work projects that provided further insight into the problem. This article is based on these experiences.

Soma®: A Unique Object For Mathematical Study

The Soma® puzzle is a 3 × 3 × 3 cube composed of seven different pieces (see fig. 1). Many people are familiar with Soma® simply as a puzzle in which the object is to construct a cube. Few realize that the Soma* puzzle can be used in counting and construction activities with the average student. It can be equally valuable when used to provide enrichment and higher-level activities for the accelerated student. While manipulating the cubes, students make use of critical thinking skills: analysis, investigatory skills, conceptualizing, and reasoning skills in a context of spatial relations. The following activities have been used with gifted elementary students for two years as part of my work with a Title IV project, “Inter- age Program for Critical Thinking.”

Art therapy in a community mental health center for children: A story of program development

Art therapists can perform many useful roles in outpatient therapy for individuals of all ages, and in the consultation services mandated by the Community Mental Health Centers Act. However, before an art therapist can serve in any capacity, it is necessary to get in, to find some means of entering existing service delivery systems. With the recent inclusion of Creative Arts Therapist job classifications in the Federal Civil Service, we may perhaps see the day when such positions will be as predictable and essential as the more traditional disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, and social work. Meanwhile, even when job classifications exist on paper, it will still be necessary for administrators to know how an art therapist can be useful, in order for them to decide to spend always-scarce funds in that area. I shall describe my own experience at the Pittsburgh Child Guidance Center (PCGC) where I have been since 1969, in the hope that it will alert both practitioners and administrators to possibilities and issues in professional and program development. From 1963 to 196.5, I worked for the Department of Child Development at the University of Pittsburgh as a Research Assistant. Part of my work was with hospitalized schizophrenic youngsters at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC), seeing each one for weekly individual art sessions. During that year of involvement with the Children’s Residential Treatment Service, I met many child psychiatrists, both staff and trainees, who by 1969 were working at PCGC. I also had the oppo~unity to present one of my cases to Erik Erikson when he made his annual visit to the Departments of Psychiatry and Child Development, a presentation which took place in the auditorium at WPIC. After the birth of my third child in 1966, I again became involved in part-time work, teaching Art Education at a local college, and consulting in 196’7 to the development of a therapeutic art program at an institution for handicapped children. In 1968, a colleague at the college asked if I was interested in doing art therapy at the state hospital where he worked as a psychologist. His inquiry helped me to realize that I was ready to become involved in learning more about the area, which I had identified as a career goal during that earlier period of work with the psychotic youngsters. Through a speech therapist friend, I heard that there was something “going on” in drama therapy at the Child Guidance Center and then, through a child psychiatrist friend, 1 heard that one of his colleagues there was interested in art therapy. I called that psychiatrist, Dr. Marvin Shapiro, and went to see him. I was interested in finding a working situation where I could learn clinical skills, and he was interested in finding a person he could train who also had background in art and children. Unfo~unately, there was no money, the drama therapist then being paid out of a research grant. But he invited me to attend a weekly “expressive arts” meeting he had organized which included himself, a psychologist, a case worker, a group worker, and the drama therapist. A dance therapist was soon invited to join us, and with various guests along the way, we met every week for a most stimulating hour

Von Neumann’s Hilbert Space Theory and Partial Differential Equations

Previous article Next article Von Neumann’s Hilbert Space Theory and Partial Differential EquationsK. O. FriedrichsK. O. Friedrichshttps://doi.org/10.1137/1022090PDFBibTexSections ToolsAdd to favoritesExport CitationTrack CitationsEmail SectionsAbout[1] Richard Courant and , Kurt O. Friedrichs, Supersonic Flow and Shock Waves, Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York, N. Y., 1948xvi+464 10,637c 0041.11302 Google Scholar[2] Saûl Hahn-Goldberg, Generalized linear and quasilinear accretive systems of partial differential equations, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 2 (1977), 109–164, Part 1 58:17477 0356.35060 CrossrefGoogle Scholar[3] Kurt O. Friedrichs, Spektraltheorie halbbeschränkter Operatoren, Math. Ann., 109 (1934), 465–487, 110 (1935), pp. 777 ff CrossrefGoogle Scholar[4] Kurt O. Friedrichs, On differential operators in Hilbert spaces, Amer. J. Math., 61 (1939), 523–544 0020.36802 CrossrefGoogle Scholar[5] Kurt O. Friedrichs, On the differentiability of the solutions of linear elliptic differential equations, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 6 (1953), 299–326 15,430c 0051.32703 CrossrefISIGoogle Scholar[6] Kurt O. Friedrichs, Symmetric hyperbolic linear differential equations, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 7 (1954), 345–392 16,44c 0059.08902 CrossrefISIGoogle Scholar[7] Kurt O. Friedrichs, Differential forms on Riemannian manifolds, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 8 (1955), 551–590 19,407a 0066.07504 CrossrefISIGoogle Scholar[8] Kurt O. Friedrichs, Symmetric positive linear differential equations, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 11 (1958), 333–418 20:7147 0083.31802 CrossrefISIGoogle Scholar[9] Kurt O. Friedrichs, On the laws of relativistic electromagneto-fluid dynamics, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 27 (1974), 749–808 51:12116 0308.76075 CrossrefISIGoogle Scholar[10] Kurt O. Friedrichs, Conservation equations and the laws of motion in classical physics, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 31 (1978), 123–131 58:23116 0379.35002 CrossrefISIGoogle Scholar[11] K. O. Friedrichs and , P. D. Lax, Systems of conservation equations with a convex extension, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 68 (1971), 1686–1688 44:3016 0229.35061 CrossrefISIGoogle Scholar[12] Charles B. Morrey, Jr. and , James Eells, Jr., A variational method in the theory of harmonic integrals. I, Ann. of Math. (2), 63 (1956), 91–128 19,407b 0070.09901 CrossrefISIGoogle Scholar[13] R. S. Phillips, Dissipative hyperbolic systems, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 86 (1957), 109–173 19,863d CrossrefGoogle Scholar[14] Marshall H. Stone, Linear Transformations in Hilbert Space and their Applications to Analysis, American Mathematical Society, New York, 1932 0005.40003 CrossrefGoogle Scholar[15] John von Neumann, Zur Theorie der unbeschränkten Matrizen, J. Reine Angew. Math., 161 (1929), 208 ff Google Scholar[16] John von Neumann, Allgemeine Eigenwerttheorie Hermitescher Funktional operatoren, Math. Ann., 102 (1929), 50 ff 55.0824.02 Google Scholar[17] John von Neumann, Über adjungierte Funktionaloperatoren, Ann. of Math. (2), 33 (1932), 294–310 1 503 053 0004.21603 CrossrefGoogle Scholar[18] John von Neumann, Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantentheorie, Julius Springer, Berlin, 1932 0005.09104 Google Scholar Previous article Next article FiguresRelatedReferencesCited byDetails Die Habilitation von John von Neumann an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin: Urteile über einen ungarisch-jüdischen Mathematiker in Deutschland im Jahr 1927Historia Mathematica, Vol. 37, No. 2 Cross Ref Second-Order Evolution Equations and the Galerkin Method Cross Ref Distributions: The evolution of a mathematical theoryHistoria Mathematica, Vol. 10, No. 2 Cross Ref Volume 22, Issue 4| 1980SIAM Review History Published online:17 February 2012 InformationCopyright © 1980 © Society for Industrial and Applied MathematicsPDF Download Article & Publication DataArticle DOI:10.1137/1022090Article page range:pp. 486-493ISSN (print):0036-1445ISSN (online):1095-7200Publisher:Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Metre and text in western India

In the preface to my restoration of the text of the Vīsaḷadevarāsa I remarked, ‘To the best of my knowledge, it has never before been found necessary to emend an entire text on metrical principles’; and I rather assumed that it was unlikely ever to be found necessary again. I certainly did not imagine that a great part of my work over the next years would be devoted to further large-scale metrical emendation; yet so it has turned out, and what is offered here is an interim progress-report, together with a few tentative generalizing conclusions.

Early breastfeeding problems

As a health visitor, my work brings me into daily contact with young families, and dietary advice constitutes a large part of my work with this important group, in promoting health and preventing illness. One area of special concern is the preparation and support of breast‐feeding mothers. Although the positive health benefits of breast‐feeding are widely acknowledged by health professionals, I frequently encounter newly confined mothers with difficulties which are the direct result of wrong or inappropriate advice being given by hospital staff or, indeed, no advice at all. I realise, of course, that success or failure in breast‐feeding is not solely the responsibility of hospitals; health visitors and other professionals have their parts to play antenatally, and even earlier, in health education programmes with schoolchildren, and in educating the public in general about breast‐feeding. In this article I shall consider some of the common breast‐feeding problems I see as a health visitor, and the ways in which I attempt to deal with them.

A Note on the Fauna From Devon Downs Shelter

The Devon Downs rock shelter, on the lower Murray in South Australia, was the first archaeological site to be systematically excavated in Australia (Hale and Tindale 1930). The deposit spans the last 5000 years of Australian prehistory. Between November 1976 and July 1977 I re-examined the excavated material from this shelter and this work is described in detail in my BA thesis (Smith 1977). The greater part of my time was spent studying the faunal assemblage and the results of this part of my work are summarised below.

Decorated Terra Sigillata at Montans (Tarn) from the Manuscript of Elie Rossignol at Albi

This paper contains the first attempt to illustrate Montans decorated bowls unconfused with the products of other factories. The Rossignol manuscript reveals that many Montans moulds and bowls have degenerate styles which are similar to bowls found in second-century contexts in Britain. In conclusion, the Hofmann system for the identification of master stylists is recommended for the study of South Gaulish decorated bowls. T HE research described in this paper was made possible by a British Academy Wates Foundation Visiting Fellowship, from 1971, and it is one of many topics which I was able to study during my travels. The main part of my work will be published in due course, and I wish to acknowledge my gratitude for this wonderful opportunity to examine many collections of decorated sigillata. One of the results was that I saw how various in quantity are the distributions of the products from different samian factories to customers within France, compared with the usually much larger quantities from the same factories which have been found widely distributed in England. Geographical causes restricted supplies to certain of the civilian populations of France, and the armies, at first in Germany, and later in Britain, seem to have received priority and also the best-quality products. The late sigillata of Montans illustrates this general trend, because it is found widely in Britain, but in France there is little of it outside of Aquitaine. The Montans wares, mainly plain vessels, which have been found on the Antonine Wall in Scotland have recently been studied by Brian Hartley.' These vessels can be used to date the late wares in Aquitaine. Decorated Montans bowls are little known, and few have ever been published. This paper may serve as an introduction to their peculiarities and to their chronological importance for Roman provincial archaeology.

Imferon Drip in a Unit

IN 1963, I was posted as Regimental Medical Officer to the Training Depot Brigade of Gurkhas at Sungei Patani, Kedah, Malaysia. Part of my work was the medical care of · Gurkha wives and children. There was a small Gurkha Families Hospital with 11 beds, .3 of which were for maternity cases. One of the biggest problems in dealing with Gurkha families is the anaemia in pregnant women. During my time at the Depot Brigade ·of Gurkhas, I saw 170 pregnant women and the average haemoglobin at first attendance, at the ante-natal clinic was 55-60 per cent. On first attending the ante-natal clinic, iron ta:blets and vitamins were given asa routine, and the woman was also dewormed. At 28 weeks pregnancy each woman then received folic acid tabs I three times daily, in addition to iron and vitamins. Despite oral iron, the haemoglobin failed'to rise significantly. Each woman DID take her tablets because a pill parade was held each morning and a record of attendance was kept, and checked we(!kly by myself. As the Depot was 80 miles from the nearest British Military Hospital, this was a worrying problem, because it was impossible' to keep stocks of blood for transfusion · purposes in the unit. I felt it might be practical to use IMFERON by drip for the more anaemic' of these women. Unfortunately at this time, Imferon had been withdrawn from the Joint Services Medical Catalogue, but I was able to acquire a small amount initially. The usual formula for the amount of Imferon required to be given by drip is 4/5 (lOO minus present haemoglobin) =amount in millilitres e.g., if the haemoglobin was 60 per cent then the amount of Imferon required =32 millilitres. Because of the short , supply of Imferon, I reduced the factor 4/5 to 3/5. All the blood reports on the women who received the Imferon drip showed a microcytic hypochromic anaemia. Prior to the drip being commenced, 2 millilitres Imferon were given intramuscularIy, .as a test dose 5 days previously The following Table shows the response to Imferon with comments on certain of the patients.

Change in the Composition of the Bottom Fauna of the Dogger Bank Area

UNDER the above title, Erik Ursin1 reports certain differences between the bottom fauna found by him during 1950–51, and its composition as reported by F. M. Davis2 during 1921–23. I am able to confirm most of these differences, because part of my work took me to the same area, and at the same time, as Ursin. But I think that caution is needed in assuming that the differences are due to real changes in the bottom fauna. It will be remembered that Davis thought that the spatfalls of molluscs are likely to be local and uncertain, and his ‘soil-current’ theory is an enunciation of this belief. The substitution of Ensis ensis and Tellina fabula, during 1950–51, for Spisula subtruncata and Mactra corallina as the dominant lamellibranchs, lends support to Davis's theory. But Davis worked with a Petersen grab, and Ursin and I are both using van Veens, and since the latter is probably more efficient at digging in sand than the former3, it is likely that these differences in fauna are at least partly the results of changed gear. There is much need for a thorough comparison of the two instruments.

An Oracle Dated in "The Repeating of Births"

September, 1946. At that time I was checking the location of inscriptions on the Theban temples as part of my work on the Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute. I noticed on the north outer face of the festival hall of Amenhotep II at Karnak, at the east end, part of an inscription.1 It was largely covered with earth and was exposed only above a line sloping from the upper left-hand corner down through the waist of the lower figure on the right. At the time I merely made a mental note that the inscription should be cleared so that it might be photographed for the expedition records. Some weeks later I observed that the inscription had been entirely uncovered, and its importance immediately struck me. Inquiries made during the season did not bring to light the identity of the person interested in it. In May, 1947, on a brief visit to London I showed my photographs and rough copy to Professor Jaroslav Cernm and from him learned the history of the discovery of this inscription. The first record of it is a brief notice in the account of the work at Karnak for the season 1922-23 written by Pillet; he mentions the date (giving only the year, month, and day), the name of Pycankh, and the representation of the bark of Amun.A On the basis of this Cern$Y, in 1946, wrote to several persons who would be in Luxor during the winter, asking them to locate the inscription. It was found by M. Jean Vercoutter of the French Institute of Cairo. He was responsible for the present clearance. Vercoutter graciously turned over to me the rights of publication. The surface of the stone on which this record is inscribed seems not to have been further dressed. Most of the blocks in this small temple are reused ones and, as here, did not always meet at tlie edges. The cracks were filled in with plaster and a thin coating of plaster applied to the wall surface. Some of this still remains at the center right; most has fallen away, and this accounts for the damage to the inscription. The engraving was rather crudely done, and the characters are irregular (P1. VIII).3

The Industrial Development of Birmingham and the Black Country, 1860-1927.

In this industrial History of Birmingham and the Black Country, I have tried to trace the course of economic development from two points of view. In the first place, I have been concerned with the transformation which has occurred since 1860 in the general industrial character of the area and with the changes in the relative importance of the chief manufactures. This part of my work has involved a detailed description of Birmingham and District as it appeared in I860, and a consideration of the forces which have since been at work in causing the rise of some trades and the decline of others. My second object has been to examine the methods of manufacture and sale and the scale of production which has been associated with the leading industries at different times and so to indicate the general development which has taken place in industrial organisation.

The flame spectra of carbon monoxide and water-gas. —Part I

As part of my work as the Gas Light & Coke Company’s Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical Technology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, I was asked to undertake a systematic investigation of the flame spectra of carbon monoxide, and of mixtures of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, under the joint supervision of Prof. W. A. Bone and Prof. A. Fowler, with a view to the elucidation, if possible, of certain aspects of the combustion of carbon monoxide which have been referred to in recent publications upon the subject. The present paper embodies the results of my experiments. The characteristic blue appearance of the highly radiative flame of carbon monoxide burning in air is, of course, well known; but on looking into the literature oi the subject, very little appears to have been published concerning the flame spectrum of carbon monoxide, which has not yet been adequately described. In 1901 Smithells recorded that the flame of carbon monoxide gives a continuous spectrum whether burning in air, oxygen or nitrous oxide, and that the same is also true when the combustion is inverted by burning oxygen in an atmosphere of carbon monoxide. He referred also to a previous observation of Burch’s that when the gas is burnt under reduced pressure, its spectrum becomes discontinuous, and that the maxima of light, though ill-defined, are in such positions as suggest that they are vestiges of oxy-carbon bands.

A study of the balance

This research was not undertaken with the deliberate aim of exceeding the precision of mass-determinations as carried out in the great institutions specially devoted to this subject. I should have considered it both presump­tuous and hopeless to attempt such a feat, and should probably have aban­doned my studies at an early stage if it had not fortunately Happened that the decisive part of my work had been completed before I came across comparable results obtained elsewhere. It was only then that I realised that the methods evolved had led to a very considerable diminution of the residual errors of weighings, in spite of the inexpensive instrument employed and of the primitive conditions under which the observations were made. A projected series of experiments called for weighings of small masses, up to perhaps 50 grm., within 0.1 mgrm. As I did not possess a balance, I bought the least expensive type of analytical balance, one by Sartorius, to carry 200 grammes in each pan, with a triangular phosphor-bronze beam, 14 cm. long, with agate knife-edges and plane bearings, with a complete arrestment for beam, suspensions, and pans, and with a rider-scale divided to read directly to 0.2 mgrm. by the usual centigramme-rider. The cost at the time (1905) was £6. The balance was described in the catalogue as “sensitive to 0.2 mgrm.,” but I trusted that the required accuracy within 0.1 mgrm. would be obtainable by using the more refined weighing methods of the physical laboratory.

On the iteration of rational functions

Notes on the iteration of rational functions have been published in the C o m p t e s R e n d u s during the last few years by Julia, Fatou, Lattes, and myself.t Many of the results announced were obtained independently by more than one writer, the priority in such cases seeming to belong to Julia. I wish to present here that small part of my work which has not been covered by the other writers, postponing until after the appearance of their memoirs the publication of such of my other results as may still be of interest.: The pth iterate of the analytic function f (x) will be denoted by fp (x). If f ( c) = c, the point c will be called a fixed point of f ( x) . Let the Taylor development of f ( x) at the fixed point c be