Summary and discussion : Generally speaking, the smectic modifications of the compounds investigated proved to be typical concerning their mutual miscibility. Consequently, they should be related to each other in the way shown by Table 4. The full lines indicate, as in Table 3, the existence of complete miscibility between the phases concerned. (As to the dashed line for diethylazoxycinnamate see Section 5.) The

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Frank Matthews Leslie was born in 1935 in Dundee, Scotland. He entered Queen’s College, Dundee, then part of the University of St Andrews in 1953, and graduated in mathematics in 1957. He was awarded the Ph.D degree in 1961 for a dissertation on non-linear fluid motion at the University of Manchester, where he had already been appointed as assistant lecturer. Following his Ph.D. he spent a year in America at MIT, before returning to England as a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Newcastle.