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Last weekend Harris had the great pleasure of meeting Margaret Jacob, widow of the composer Gordon Jacob, known to generations of clarinet players through his enduring Concertino arrangement of tunes by Tartini. He has written about Gordon Jacob before (The Clarinet, June 2016) but this wonderful day spent with Margaret has inspired him to write a little more on this important and rather neglected British composer. Gordon Jacob was born in 1895 and studied at the Royal College of Music with Vaughan Williams, Stanford and Herbert Howells--all of whom have contributed significantly to the clarinet repertoire. Gordon Jacob is largely forgotten toda; as a serious composer. He was serious about his composition--writing three symphonies, 17 concertos and a host of works in other styles. The reason is not hard to fathom. At a time when the BBC, critics and concert promoters were only interested in the avant-garde, Jacob was still writing tonal music.

In the history of zoology the English anatomist Morrison Watson (1845–1885) is considered to be the discoverer of the masculinized sexual organs of the spotted hyena. Beginning in 1877, Watson had published a series of anatomical studies on the spotted hyena (Watson, 1877, 1878, 1881, Watson and Young, 1879), in which he, in which he for the first time made public the anatomical peculiarities of the female spotted hyena’s genitalia. This scientific achievement is well documented. But now we can also state that a hundred years before Watson the Dutch amateur zoologist Robert Jacob Gordon (1743–1795), while serving in the Scots Brigades at the Cape of Good Hope, had already made the same discovery and merely unfortunate personal circumstances prevented publication. During his stay at the Cape, Gordon had studied spotted hyenas intensively and recorded his observations in accurate drawings and comments. These drawings have been preserved as part of a large collection of animal drawings entitled Gordon Atlas. With his discovery, Gordon actually was the first to provide empirical evidence of a “curious and inexplicable case of dimorphism” (Darwin on a beetle) in mammalians, long before Étienne Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire (Cours de l’histoire naturelle des mammifères, 1829) started examining masculinized sexual organs in the mole or Darwin recognized the importance of sexual dimorphism (Descent of Man, 1871). In this paper we reproduce for the first time all hyena drawings from the Gordon Atlas, including Gordon’s handwritten notes in the margins in the original Dutch and in translation. Additionally, we briefly delineate the knowledge about the South African spotted hyena in Gordon’s time and indicate that we doubt Watson’s explanation for the age-old confusion about the hyena.

Appropriate for use in Australian secondary and undergraduate studies, this unique book does not try to define leadership, but instead encourages the reader to fulfil that task themselves through a series of short essays on the personal and professional life of some contemporary Australians recognised nationally as aspiring leaders in their fields.

A preliminary examination of Rabbi Jacob Gordon's sermons within their biographical, communal, religious, historical, social, and cultural contexts, offers insight into the challenges Jewish immigrants faced in early twentieth century Toronto—as this Orthodox immigrant rabbi perceived them. These sermons provide details and perspectives, and they particularly illuminate doings within Toronto's Orthodox-immigrant Jewish community. Gordon's East-European background did not hold him back from remolding his style, as well as the content of his sermons, fully aware as he was of the need to modify his sermonic approach to respond to the novelties of Toronto's immigrant world. Gordon's sermons may also be compared to those of other North American contemporaries, again signaling the unique aspects of the Canadian Jewish religious experience at a critical moment.

  \"Senior Services is pleased to have [Jacob Gordon] serving in the capacity of volunteer coordinator,\" said director Theesia Everhart-Roberts. \"During his short time with Senior Services, Jacob has displayed a notable level of talent, enthusiasm and professionalism in his work.\" \"We always need volunteers,\" he said. \"We need them especially in Wallburg and the southern end of the county. ... We also have volunteers at all the nutrition sites. They help set up and clean up at the sites and talk with the participants.\" \"Our services help keep seniors in their homes much longer,\" he said. \"Without some of the services, people would go into nursing homes much earlier.\"

In the quarterfinals, Ajax-Pickering drew the Toronto Red Wings. It was a physical and fast game with the Raiders prevailing 2-1 in overtime. The victory set the scene for a match between the Raiders and the Toronto Young Nationals, ranked third in Ontario. The Nats were out to avenge the defeat they suffered last year to the Raiders at the Sarnia Silver Stick but could not get past the stingy defence and excellent goaltending of Kyle Corrigan. The Raiders prevailed 2-0 to advance to the final, which would be their third game of the day. The Raiders' first two shooters, Kevin Stiles and Joshua Cammalleri, both scored while the Marlie shooters were again stymied by [Jacob Gordon], resulting in the Raiders' win.

\"I came to the Knights hoping to get a game in the under-19s or reserves,\" [JACOB Gordon] said. \"It's a bit of a surprise that I'm now in the seniors. \"I was a midfielder with New Norfolk and also played in that position for Knights' reserves, but I'm now at left-back. \"We'll aim for third place in the league now that we can't win any silverware.\"

\"I'm going to challenge you to go slow,\" [Rick Erlandson] told the soldiers. \"Why? Because you've been changed. Some of you may not think you've changed. But 36 years in this uniform ... let me tell you, you've changed. Go slow ... and take care of each other.\" \"And, there's green grass, there's trees. I mean, we stopped in Germany before that, and the first thing I noticed was a tree growing outside,\" he said, adding that the temperature in Iraq when they departed was 120 degrees. It was in the mid-70s when they stepped off the plane at Volk Field.

Also on the program will be Walter Harley's Double Concerto, featuring soloists Carl Ferm, alto saxophone, and Nicholas Allen, tuba. If old wine in new bottles is not enough to top off a pleasant Sunday afternoon concert, then [Gordon Jacob]'s 1976 sequel \"More Old Wine in New Bottles\" should add an interesting flavor to the mix.