Professor of mathematics in the Netherlands; historian; and editor of Woord en Wetenschap. The collection includes a paper entitled "Secession - Quarrels - Emigration - Personalities;" reports on the conference of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Netherlandic Studies; articles published in Nederlands Dagblad about N. H. Beversluis; the Afscheiding; Pella, Iowa; and Toronto, Ontario; and book reviews.