The Fortsas catalogue

Examines two items in Sir William Osler's Bibliotheca Osleriana, both relating to the Fortsas library sale hoax of 1840.     

Blackbelts in biochemistry: On being and becoming

High precision lab work is feasible and all students can be inducted into such practices from day one. This is also required by the more commercially/industrially oriented laboratories, though no compendium of such practices exists. Based on experience in imparting such instruction and analysis to teaching labs as well as larger laboratories, some immediately relevant ideas are put together here. While the ideas may appear simple, there is danger in thinking that the underlying statistical theory is also simple, which is often not the case. But even without the relevant theory, much can be achieved in the lab.