MacFarlane, Robert

MacFarlane, Robert C. (with Zofia Smardz). Special Trust. New York Cadell and Davies, 1994. 

The authors thank the reviewers of individual sections of this second edition, whose insightful comments have strengthened the book Lisa Akeson, Peter Eglinton, Benjamin Levy, and Don McCubbin. The authors also acknowledge Lynn Roberts critique of the entire text of the first edition. Thanks are also due to John MacFarlane, who assisted with the graphics. The authors greatly appreciate the support for this endeavor that was provided to E. Fechner-Levy by Abt Associates Inc., and to H. Hemond by the William E. Leonhard Chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. 

Opium contains a complex mixture of almost twenty-five alkaloids. The principle alkaloid in the mixture, and the one responsible for analgesic activity, is morphine, named after the Roman god of sleep—Morpheus. Although pure morphine was isolated in 1803, it was not until 1833 that chemists at Macfarlane Co. (now Macfarlane-Smith) in Edinburgh were able to isolate and purify it on a commercial scale. Although the functional groups on morphine had been identified by 1881, it took many more years to establish the structure of morphine and it was not until 1925 that Sir Robert Robinson solved the puzzle. Another twenty-seven years were to pass before a full synthesis of morphine was achieved in 1952. 

See Robert MacFarlane, Special Trust (New York, 1994), pp. 149-69. MacFarlane writes that apart from detailed briefings about Soviet military dispositions and readiness at the Chinese border, they also provided information on Soviet military aid to North Vietnam and other Third World countries and guerrilla movements. 

Roberts CJC, Daneshmend TK, Macfarlane D, Dieppe PA. Anticonvulsant intoxication precipitated by azapropazone. PostgradMedJ (1981) 57, 191-2. 

Source Robert F. Kopprasch, John Macfarlane, Daniel R. Ross, and Janet Showers, The Interest Rate Swap Market Yield Mathematics, Terminology, and Conventions, Chapter 58 in Frank J. Fabozzi and Irving M. Pollack (eds.). The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities (Fiomewood, IL Dow Jones-Irwin, 1987). 

In The Old Ways, Robert Macfarlane writes, Mountain landscapes appear chaotic in their jumbledness, but they are in fact ultra-logical landscapes, organized by the climatic extremes and severe expressions of gravity so hyper-ordered as to seem chance-made (p. 192). The landscapes are both random and ordered, constrained by laws of physics and geology. 

In The Old Ways, Robert Macfarlane writes ... Robert Macfailane. The Old Ways A Journey on Foot. Penguin, p. 192. 

ELA Macfarlane, SM Roberts, VGR Steukers, PL Taylor. J Chem Soc Perkin Trans I 2287-2290, 1993. 

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