Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2016
Carlyle S. Beals, former Dominion Astronomer of Canada and one of the most distinguished astronomers Canada has produced, died on 2 July, 1979. Carl Beals was not only a great astronomer, known throughout the astronomical world for his studies of Wolf-Rayet stars and many other contributions to astronomy, but he was also a great human person who exercised considerable influence on the development of astronomy in Canada and elsewhere. I should like to dedicate this lecture to the memory of Carl Beals.