Margaret M. Bryant

Abstract

She grew up on a farm in the area known as The Ridge, between Johnston and Trenton (which had one of the few banks around that did not collapse during The Depression). In The Depression, however, John Bryant lost his farm of about 1000 acres because he could not pay a debt of $100 to a neighbor, a great blow to a proud man who boasted the very first automobile in the county.-In spite of her problem arm,• Professor Bryant's youngest niece has written, •Margaret Bryant learned to drive the car as a young child and also to swim and ride a bicycle,• but she was so nearsighted she had to quit the bicycle after running into people on the farm: she even hit the side of the house because she didn1 see it. She learned to play the piano (to exercise her arm) and always played at family gatherings and reunions. But most of all from her earliest years -from the time she was •Maggie Mae,• before she changed her forenames legally to Margaret M. -•she was busy correcting everybody's English,• reports niece Mrs. Marian Jeter Woolsey. -Cousins who came to her funeral told tales of these occurrences,• remembering her childhood.Her interest in language took her through honors at Winthrop College (1921), a master's degree (1925) and a doctorate (1931) at Columbia University and brought her many honors, among them honorary degrees from Winthrop College (SC), Cedar Crest College (PA), Francis Marion College (SC), and Northern Michigan University. She lectured at major universities in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, in China (from which she once dramatically escaped, on the last boat out as war erupted), and in Japan, where her English grammar became a Japanese textbook and she herself a •cover girl• on an intellectual magazine, photographed by Bachrach. When her autobiography was published, it was published in Japan.

An intracellular anion channel from rat brain microsomes which is also permeable to cations

“…To confirm this model, future work will involve the use of anions of various sizes. For example, it has been shown that large anions like HEPES-are not permeable in this channel and also prevent cation permeation [5]. This work was supported by the MRC.…”