In memoriam. Dr. Oriol de Bolos i Capdevila (1924-2007).

Descendiente de Antoni Bolòs i Ferrussola-farmacéutico botánico que herborizó en varias comarcas catalanas y mantuvo contactos con otros botánicos de su época, especialmente con su suegro Joan Minuart i Parets- y de Francesc Bolòs i Germà-farmacéutico naturalista, autor de trabajos de flora y de geología-, sobrino-nieto de Estanislau Vayreda i Vila, nieto de Ramon de Bolòs i Saderra-los dos últimos, farmacéuticos botánicos, miembros de la escuela de Antoni C. Costa- e hijo de Antoni de Bolòs i Vayreda-farmacéutico botánico, director del Institut Botànic de Barcelona en tiempos difíciles-, Oriol de Bolòs i Capdevila (Olot, 16 de marzo de 1924- Barcelona, 22 de marzo de 2007) siguió-de un modo que podríamos considerar natural, lógico- la tradición científica de su familia de estudio de las plantas, siendo el primero de la saga en ejercerla no a partir de los estudios de farmacia, sino desde los de ciencias naturales....

In memoriam Antonio Prevosti (1919-2011), a pioneer of genetics of natural populations

Prof. Dr. Antonio Prevosti was born on the 15th of February, 1919, at Barcelona where he grew up and lived with his wife Maria Monclús and his family until his death. Between the years 1939 and 1942 he registered at the University of Barcelona and finished his studies there with the"University Degree in Natural Science" obtaining the extraordinary award of his promotion. Immediately afterwards he started his research about the growth rate of Barcelona school children from two very different social groups at the Anthropology Laboratory of the University of Barcelona. The obtained results were published in his Doctoral Thesis (1948). Further investigations on quantitative traits in human populations improved his knowledge of statistical analyses and provided the basis for a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work at the Institute of Statistical and Demographical Sciences in Rome directed by Prof. C. Gini.