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The article presents data on the social composition of the Royal Economic Society (R.E.S.) in Great Britain from 1890 to 1960 by analyzing a 10 per cent sample of home-based members in selected years throughout the period since the society's foundation in 1890. The R.E.S. membership lists include the names of many subscribers who possess no serious claims to be regarded as professional economists by any normal definition of those terms. Nevertheless, throughout its long life the society's ranks have included the great majority of British professional economists as well as many serious amateur students of the subject and the occupational statistics provide some basis for judging the relative importance of the two categories. The R.E.S. data provided in the paper provides only limited and indirect evidence of this newer type of professionalization, though it is compatible with it. The strongest common link among Fellows of the Society was their subscription to "The Economic Journal," a periodical coverage in 1960 than in the 1890s and although subscribers are not necessarily readers, the subscription lists obviously provide important insights into the journal's audience.

The purpose of this paper is to assemble and present in comparable form some statistics available on professional incomes in a number of Western countries. Professions selected are law, medicine, dentistry, the higher civil service and higher learning, countries are Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Great Britain and the United States. My interest in professional incomes has been aroused by the alleged and often cited connection between economic growth and the advance of democracy on the one hand and the worsening economic status of the intellectual and professional classes on the other. This trend has been noted not only in the United States but in most Western countries, it explains the springing up, all over Western Europe, of organizations of intellectuals and university graduates, aimed at defending their interests and drawing the public's attention to their plight. In Canada between 1911 and 1951, the income of professional people is estimated to have risen only one quarter as fast as the income of industrial workers, in Germany, over a period half as long the average income of the free professions is said to have risen by half as much as the income of the rest of the economy. The same trend, though less pronounced, is present also in Great Britain, where, between 1911 and 1956, the average income of the liberal professions has risen by two thirds of the rise in the national income per head of occupied population.

Focuses on the growth of speech therapy as a profession in Great Britain. History of the speech therapy in the country; Means for the training of speech therapists in the country; Job description of a speech therapist.

Analyzes the myths underlying the nursing profession in Great Britain. Value of nursing theory to the practitioners; Development of a modern image of the nurse; Effects of organizational life on the people.