PRICE, James Robert (Melbourne). Senior Principal Research Officer, Division of Industrial Chemistry, CSIRO. D.Sc. (Jhlelaide), D. Phil. (Oxen.). Distinguished for his researches on the chemistry of natural products, including the basis of the inheritance of flower colour and the chemistry of natural quinones. He is also known internationally for his more recent work on Australian alkaloids and stock poisons, and has isolated and determined the structures of several new classes of alkaloids, as well as previous]y unknown members of other classes. His leadership in this field has stimulated work in the Universities, has led to establishment of an effective collecting service in the forests and to arrangements for testing the products for medical or veterinary application. He has also initiated work on the root exudates from plants.