[Women the thought and works of Cajal (remembrances on the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize Award)]. / La mujer en el pensamiento y la obra de Cajal (evocación de su figura en el i Centenario de la concesión del Nobel).

This conference begins with a personal evocation of the author's grandfather, Gaspar Cruz y Martín, Anatomic Sculptor at the Faculty of Medicine of San Carlos--the commemorative medal depicting Cajal that can be seen today at the Cajal Teaching Room Museum in the Medical College of Madrid is due to his hand. The talk goes on to compile a little anthology of texts on women by Cajal, chosen as literary counterparts to his scientific writings. Women are seen by Cajal under the light of beauty, love, marriage, family and even feminism. The anthology ends with a series of "misogynistic stings"--as Dr. Cruz y Hermida calls them--which alternate negative criticism with open praise, mostly showing the admiration that women caused in the sensitive intelligence of the great humanist. The conference finishes with an account of the last moments of Cajal and the moving words by D. Teófilo Hernando, who was at the side of the Maestro when he passed away.

[My 25th anniversary with the academy. An excuse to remember some old friends who have disapeared]. / Mis bodas de plata con la academia. Un pretexto para recordar a los viejos amigos desaparecidos.

As the author reaches his 25th anniversary with R.A.N.M., he remembers the academics therein, whom he found in the year of his entry (November, 1980), in the midst of life and work, and with whom he closely spent the following years, yielding anecdotal and human brush strokes through our brief pesonal encounters. Before remembering the academics now gone, we note another of those relationships, begun like the others in the some year and, happily, still maintaining today the precious gift of life. This exercise in historical reporting in which the memory does justice to those names that lent their prestige to Spanish Medicine, is not meant -in the words of Profesor Cruz y Hermida- to be a chapter in the history of medicine, but rather a page in the history of the National Royal Academy of Medicine.