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WELCOME w PITTSBURGH

BY PETER MACHAMER

The Smokey City in the nineteenth century. Courtesy of the Carnegie

Library, Pittsburgh.

PITISBURGH WAS ONCE KNOWN as "The Smokey City.11 Today its image is radically changed. Last year, to the amazement of many, Rand McNally picked Pittsburgh as "America's Most Livable City.11 While service and high-tech com­panies mushroom, the steel and heavy industries that sustained the city and gave it its identity are undergoing a self-organized demise.

Academically, Pittsburgh is home to the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie­Mellon University, Duquesne University, Chatham College, Carlow College, and Point Park College. Pitt, which is holding a reception for all meeting partici­pants Friday evening, is currently celebrating its bicentennial.

Although the diligent program chairs have organized 107 different sessions that will doubtless dazzle and delight you and keep you glued to your seat, if you can squeeze out a few minutes of spare time, take a ride on one of Pitts­burgh's two inclines to Mount Washington. From there you get a good sense of the city: the "Golden Triangle,11 Pittsburgh's business district, the three rivers (actually four, but that's only for trivia buffs), and the hills that make this a city of neighborhoods, bridges, and motorists' nightmares.

On a more serious note, some of us think the view from Grandview Avenue is rather spectacular. From there you can see the Northside, home of the Pitts­burgh Aviary, Buhl Science Center's Planetarium, Three Rivers Stadium, some nicely gentrified neighborhoods, and an assortment of restaurants and good saloons. Just out of sight, behind the skyscrapers, is Oakland, home of Pitt, CMU, "student culture,11 the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History (the dinosaurs are great!), and a major medical complex. Beyond Oakland is Shadyside, with its boutiques, yuppie watering holes, and no parking place for your BMW, and Squirrel Hill, with its bagels and crazed drivers.

And there's more-Pittsburgh is a beautiful, diversified city. I have become quite fond of it over the past ten years. I hope you enjoy it, too.

HSS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

PRESIDENT EDWARD GRANT, Indiana University

VICE-PRESIDENT WILLIAM COLEMAN, University of

Wisconsin- Madison

SECRETARY EDITH SYLLA1 North Carolina State

University

TREASURER SPENCER R. WEART, American Institute

of Physics

EDITDR CHARLES ROSENBERG, University of

Pennsylvania

The History of Science Society was founded in 1924 to secure the future of Isis, the interna­tional review that George Sarton (1884-1956) had founded in Belgium in 1912. The Society seeks to foster interest in the history of science and its social and cultural relations, to provide a forum for discussion, and ta promote scholarly research in the history of science. The Society pursues these objectives by the publication of its journals Isis and Osiris, by the support and subvention of other forms of scholarly publica­tion, by the organization of annual meetings and other programs, by the award of medals and prizes for outstanding contributions to the history of science, by the encouragement and sponsorship of local and regional sections of the Society, and by cooperation with other learned and scientific societies.

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

ELECTION RESULTS 2

ANNUAL MEETING THURSDAY NIGHT SESSION 3

HISTORY OF SCIENCE PAYS OFF 3

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NEWS OF THE SOCIETY

PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

Three items to be discussed by the His­tory of Science Society Council at its October meeting may, if passed by the Council, be brought to a vote at the Busi­ness Meeting in Pittsburgh.

First, there is a proposal to rationalize the timing for petition candidates in the annual election. In Section ill. 9, para­graph three now states: "Nominating petitions, together with the agreement of the person nominated, must reach the chair of the Nominating Committee no later than sixty days before the mailing of the ballots listing the nominees." Since this is an undetermined date, as the date of mailing of the ballots varies, it is pro­posed that the statutes read instead: "Nominating petitions, together with the agreement of the person nominated, must reach the chair of the Nominating Com­mittee within two months after the publi­cation of the list of nominees!' In general the list of nominees is published in the April Newsletter, which should appear about the tenth of April. Nominating petitions would then have a deadline of 10 June, barely in time to add information about petition candidates to the July Newsletter.

A second proposed constitutional amendment would establish the relation of special interest groups to the Society. The by laws proposed for this purpose were published in the April 1986 Newsletter, on page 5. These proposed bylaws might be grouped as a fourth and final section of the bylaws related to interest groups.

A third proposed constitutional amend­ment would establish the office of Execu­tive Secretary to replace the current office of Secretary (see front page story, July Newsletter).

The proposed changes in the statutes read:

• Statute 7: The officers shall be a Presi­dent, a Vice President, who is President­elect, an Executive Secretary, a Treasurer, and the Editor of Isis. [As compared to the current statutes, this inserts the word "Executive."] • Statute 11: The Council shall elect a Treasurer for a two-year renewable term. Council shall also elect an Executive Secretary for a five-year renewable term. In

case of a vacancy in any office, the Coun­cil shall elect a member of the Society to complete the unexpired portion of the term. [As compared to the current stat­utes, this provides a longer term for the Executive Secretary (the current Secretary has a two-year renewable term) andre­moves the provision that the (Executive) Secretary shall be elected in a year that a President is not elected. If the first Execu­tive Secretary serves from January 1988 to December 1992, he or she will be elected in a year that a President is not elected, but if his or her successor is elected in 1992, that will coincide with the election of a President. At the end of ten years, if things go according to schedule, there might again be a new Executive Secretary in a year when a President was not elected.] • New item H under Bylaws II. When necess~ a Special Nominating Commit­tee composed of the President (as chair), Vice President, and the members of the elected Nominating Committee shall recommend one or more candidates for Executive Secretary, to be elected by the Council.

Elsewhere in the statutes the term "Secretary" shall be assumed to refer to the Executive Secretary.

OCTOBER 1987 RALEIGH HSS MEETING

Members of HSS are invited to submit proposals for sessions for next year's an­nual meeting, which will be held jointly with the Society for the History of Tech­nology in Raleigh, North Carolina, 29 October-1 November 1987. Sessions on themes that link the interests of the two participating societies are especially wel­come. Send proposals by 1 February 1987 to Michael M. Sokal, Department of Humanities, Worcester Polytechnic Insti­tute, Worcester, MA 01002.

VISITING HISIDRIANS OF SCIENCE

Under the leadership of Joseph Dauben, HSS Coordinator of Programs, and Joe Burchfield, Chairman of the HSS Visiting Historians of Science Program, the latter program is now well under way. Recent successful visits are those of Gerald Holton to Dartmouth and of Frank Sullo-

History of Science Society N ewsietter

ELECTION RESULTS

A gratifyingly large number of votes were received in the recent election: 658 ballots postmarked on or before 23 August have been counted. Those elected are as fol­lows: for Vice President and President­elect, Mary Jo Nye; for Council, Allen Debus, Jane Maienschein, Kathryn Olesko, Ronald Overmann, and Shirley Roe; for Nominating Committee from Council, Gerald Holton, Edith Sylla, and Richard Westfall; for Nominating Com­mittee at large, Owen Hannaway and Sandra Herbert.

way to Chapman College and Whittier College, both in California. The program seeks to promote the history of science wherever it is not fully established. In addition to giving lectures and seminars, these visitors stand ready to discuss the importance and pedagogical usefulness of the history of science with department heads and college and university deans and presidents. At smaller colleges, a historian of science can serve as the focus of core curricula or in bridging the work of a number of departments. At universities that are planning to institute programs or expand their history of science depart­ments, the Visiting Historians can draw attention to these plans and provide in­valuable advice on alternative models. They will also represent the profession in visits to other institutions, including libraries, science museums, industrial and research laboratories, and archives; to corporations and businesses; and to occa­sional community and public forums.

The current list of lecturers was an­nounced in the October 1985 and January 1986 HSS Newsletter. Application forms and detailed information concerning each of the Visiting Historians of Science and on the program in general may be ob­tained from the HSS Coordinator of Pro­grams, Joseph W. Dauben, Department of History, Herbert H. Lehman College, CUNY, Bedford Park Boulevard West Bronx, NY 10468; telephone (212) 960-8285, 960-8289, or (212) 790-4606, 790-4621. Once this information is obtained, any institution or organization wishing to engage a Society lecturer in 1986-1987 should first contact individual speakers directly to ascertain whether they are available, then submit the completed applications to the Coordinator of Pro­grams.

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Related Societies &. Programs

Members of the History of Science Soci­ety who wish to join the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science are now entitled to a 10 percent reduction of their membership fees (normally $20 for indi­viduals and $25 for institutions). The membership fee for the Australasian Asso­ciation includes a subscription to Metasci­ence, an annual scholarly review, and to a quarterly newsletter.

New members joining in the last three months of 1986 will hold membership through to the end of 1987 and will re­ceive both the 1986 and 1987 issues of Metascience. The 1986 issue, appearing in November, includes the following articles (as well as book reviews and announce­ments): Arie Rip, "The Challenge to Sci­ence Policy Studies" i David Dickson, 11From Strangelove to Star Wars: The New Politics of Science" i Gary Werskey, "The 'Non-Technical' Education of Engineers" i Mark Francis, "Herbert Spencer and the Mid-Victorian Scientists" i John Laurent, 11 Alternative Social Darwinism in an Australian Context, 1890-1914"i and Stephen Gaukroger, "Philosophical Re­sponses to the New Science in Britain, 1644-1799: A Survey of Texts."

To join the Australasian Association, members of HSS should identify them­selves as such and send a check (personal

checks accepted) or money order for $18 (individuals) or $22.50 (institutions) to Dr. Ditta Bartels, Treasurer, AAHPSSS, School of History and Philosophy of Sci­ence, University of New South Wales, Kensington, N.S.W. 2033, Australia.

On the occasion of the forty-first annual meeting of the Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft (German Geophysical Society) held in Hannover, West Germany, on 29 March 1982, a Working Group for History of Geophysics was founded. The Working Group will publish communications containing com­ments on important new publications, notices concerning research activities, short reports on subjects from the history of geophysics, information on meetings, inquiries from members, and so forth. Starting immediately, special sessions on historical subjects are to be held at the regular meetings of the Deutsche Geophy­sikalische Gesellschaft. For more informa­tion contact Wilfried Schroeder, Secretary, Hechelstrasse 8, D-2820 Bremen­Roennebeck, Federal Republic of Germany.

The Department of Chemistry and Bio­chemistry and International Projects and Services of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois, is arranging the !\Jinth European History of Chemistry

I-llSTORY OF SCIENCE PAYS OFF?

Last February Trans World Airlines an­nounced the grand prize winner of its "Cosmic Contest," a contest held in 1955 in which entrants were asked to describe in 200 words or less what commercial air travel would be like in 1985. As TWA announced, the person most accurately predicting 1985 commercial air travel was Helen Thomas of Cambridge, Massachu­setts, who predicted that the airlines of 1~85 would be powered by bypass jets, with ranges of 5,000 miles. Ms. Thomas also predicted that planes would cruise at about 700 mph and carry about 300 pas­sengers.

As described in the news releases an­nouncing the prize, Ms. Thomas is a 1928 graduate of Radcliffe College who has the distinction of being the first woman to

receive a Ph.D. in the history of science. Before retiring in 1977, Ms. Thomas worked at Harvard College Observatory, MIT Radiation Laboratory and Research Laboratory of Electronics, and Raytheon Laboratory.

In reply to a letter, Helen Thomas gra­ciously wrote as follows.

"My Ph.D. was earned in 1948 from Radcliffe College. Harvard was the first university to offer this degree in the His­tory of Science. Of course, I was Dr. Sarton's student and his first two doctors, Aydin Sayili (Ph.D. '42) who ... became Professor of History of Science at the University of Ankara and I. Bernard Co­hen (Ph.D. '47) who became Professor of History of Science at Harvard (first Ameri-

ANNUAL MEETING THURSDAY NIGHT SESSION

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In planning travel to the Pittsburgh meet­ing, please note that the following session has been scheduled for Thursday evening, 24 October, 7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.

Scientific Controversies

Organizer and chair: Mordechai Feingold (Boston University)

Joella G. Yoder (Renton, Washington), By Hooke or by Crooke: A Taxonomy of Huygens's Priority Squabbles

Susan E. Cozzens (National Science Foun­dation), The Role of Third Parties in Prior­ity Disputes: The Opiate Receptor Case

David L. Hull (Northwestern University), Priority Disputes: Rational Interest or Greed for Famd

Comment: RichardS. Westfall (Indiana University)

The other societies are holding sessions both Thursday evening and Sunday after­noon, 26 October.

Tour in June and July 1987. John H. Wotiz will again be the tour director and instruc­tor. Ten European countries will be vis­ited, with stops in places where history of chemistry was made or is on exhibit, or

can) were my fellow graduate students. I was Dr. Sarton's first woman student and second American to get the Ph.D. Dr. Henry Guerlac (Ph.D. '41), although a student of Dr. Sarton, got his degree in straight History because there was some doubt that he would be able to get a job teaching history of science. His first teaching was at Yale and then he inaugu­rated the course in the history of science at the University of Wisconsin. During the War I worked for him as Assistant Historian at Radiation Laboratory, M.I.T. He then went to Cornell. His. History of Radar will be published by the American Institute of Physics and Tomash Books. . . . One thing that makes me very happy is to see the many women (and men) in fine positions concerned with history of science. I was told when I began research that I would never get a job in history of science, but I had to pursue it anyway!'

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Smithsonian Secretary Adams

where special arrangements have been made to hear lectures by local historians. Participation for periods of less than eight weeks will be possible. Family members of participants will be able to join the tour. University registration for credit or audit is required. For further information contact John H. Wotiz, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901; telephone (618) 453-5721 (office) or 549-4220 (home).

Stresses Importance of History of Science

A small group of historians interested in the history of military and naval technol­ogy has recently banded together in the Washington, D.C., area. The group plans to initiate a series of lectures at the Na­tional Museum of American History to begin in fall1986. The group will also publish a newsletter, Ingeniator, to provide information on conferences and meetings, work in progress, major publications, job vacancies, and appointments. The contact for the activities at the National Museum of American History is Dr. Edward C. Ezell, Curator/Supervisor of the Division of Armed Forces History. The correspond­ing secretary for the group and the editor of its newsletter is Donald R. Baucom of the Air Force Office of History. Address information for the newsletter and inqui-

In his annual report for 1985, published earlier this year, Smithsonian Secretary Robert McC. Adams noted the importance of the history of science as a bridge be­tween science and the humanities. Com­menting on the complementarities be­tween these two broad areas of inquiry, Adams noted the "growing amount of suggestive work focusing on the creative process; on the cognitive and symbolic aspects of pattern recognition and discov­ery; on the intellectual and social organi­zation of disciplines; on the blurring of disciplinary boundaries; and on the his­tory of development of fields as disparate as science and art!' Calling for renewed interdisciplinary efforts at understanding all knowledge without attention to arbi­trary and artificial boundaries, Adams

ries about the group's activities and plans to Dr. Donald R. Baucom, 2418 Childs Lane, Alexandria, VA 22308.

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCSJ is an association formed to

EXPANDED GUIDE TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AVAILABLE!

The seventh edition of the HSS Guide to the History of Science, compiled and edited by P THOMAS CARROU (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), is soon to be published.

THE NEW GUIDE now contains an expanded international Guide to Societies and Organizations, a more complete, geographically arranged Guide to Graduate Study and Research, and an updated Guide to Scholarly Journals with a list of newsletters-and all members (except those requesting anonymity) are now in the Directory of Members.

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highlighted the key role that historians of science can play in constructing a new liberal arts: "Science, it seems reasonable to conclude, and even to celebrate, is the driving intellectual if not social force of our age. Its content, to be sure, is not read­ily comprehendible with the traditional equipment of the humanist. But the natu­ral sciences are by no means as mono­lithic and impenetrable as humanists too often assume. Moreover, the striking growth of the history of science as a disci­pline has shown that, viewed as an alter­nate career path rather than a short-term project, a measure of scientific specializa­tion can be an attractive challenge rather than a permanent deterrent to at least some humanists."

bring together scholars in all disciplines that study the world of the nineteenth century: art, literature, languages, philos­ophy, history, women's studies, politics, science. The 1987 INCS annual confer­ence, meeting 9-10 April on the campus of San Jose State University, will explore the topic "Revolution, Instability, Change." Persons wishing to submit pa­pers must submit a one-page proposal by 15 October 1986 to J. H. Haeger or Janice E. Patten, Department of English, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192. \egistration for the conference will be

available from the same address after 1 January 1987. Those wishing to join the organization and to receive its journal Nineteenth-Century Contexts should send $15 to Professor Eric T. Haskell, Treasurer INCS, French Department, Scripps College, Claremont, CA 91711.

Iowa State University announces the creation of a Center for Historical Studies of Technology and Science to complement the university's doctoral program in the history of technology and science. Center activities include soliciting historical records from businesses, associations, and individuals; raising grant funds to support preservation, organization, and study of these collections; and securing research monies for the study of the history of technology and science at Iowa State University. The Center also will partici-

October 1986

pate in interinstitutional research projects in areas of national and state technologi­cal and scientific development. A serial publication, symposia, and lecture series are possible, as is a visiting scholars pro­gram. For further information, contact Alan I Marcus, Director, Center for His­torical Studies of Technology and Science, 635 Roos Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011.

The annual series Knowledge and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Science, Past and Present has recently moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana­Champaign, with Lowell Hargens, Robert AlunJones, and Andrew Pickering as editors. The new editors intend to inter­pret the title of the series broadly, and they invite contributions from historians, philosophers, sociologists, anthropolo­gists, and other social scientists working in the general area of science studies. The future focus of the series will reflect the editors' interests in the sociological study of scientific communities, the sociology of scientific knowledge and associated historiographic and epistemological prob­lems, and the history and sociology of the social sciences. The editors hope to pro­vide a context for dialogue between these different perspectives in the sociology of sciencei to this end they expect to publish special numbers of the series devoted to particular problems of interdisciplinary concern. For more information contact the editors at the Department of Sociol­ogy, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801.

The Smithsonian Institution has been awarded a $131,000 grant from the AHred P. Sloan Foundation to launch the first year of an expected $1 million, four-year program to explore how video technology can aid in documenting the history of science and technology. "Science in Na­tional Life" will encompass up to six pilot projects, including group discussions between those who have had common experience in large-scale scientific mis­sions. One of the projects proposed to initiate the program is the documentation of evolution as a scientific theory. It is expected that video histories will supple­ment the Smithsonian's archives and oral history interviews with visual records leading to a better understanding of the frameworks within which innovative scientific and technological studies are done.

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OSIRIS IS HERE! • Volume 1 of the second series of Osiris, devoted to Historical Writing on American

Science, was published july 1985. Guest-edited by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Margaret Rossiter, Volume 1 presents an unprecedented overview of science and society in the United States. Articles by leading younger scholars in the discipline are devoted to the scientific specialties, to such classic themes as "Institutional History;" and to such newer themes as "Science and Religion;· and "Science and Public Policy Since World War II."

• Volume 2 of Osiris, published April 1986, offers an array of important papers capturing themes at the leading edge of research and debate. Among the contributors to Volume 2 are David C. Lindberg ("The Genesis of Kepler's Theory of Light"), Ernst Mayr ('J,G. Kolreuter's Contributions to Biology"), and Garland E. Allen ("The Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor").

• Volume 3, to be published in early 1987, presents a collection of authoritative essays by leading historians of science. It features Ruth Barton (on john Tyndall's Pantheism), Adrian Desmond (on artisans and evolution in Britain), Robert E. Kohler (on private foundations and American science), Sheila Weiss (on the race hygiene movement in Germany), and Alan Needell (on the federal role in radioastronomy).

• Now is the time to subscribe to Osiris. Special prices for HSS members: Volumes 1, 2, and 3 for only $45 (hardcover}, $30 (paperback). For more information, contact the HSS Publications Office, 215 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6310.

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FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS} announces the availability of four types of awards for research at its library in Worces­ter, Massachusetts, during the year 1 June 1987 to 31 May 1988. The deadline for applications for all four awards and for letters of recommendation is 1 January 1987.

• National Endowment for the Humani­ties Fellowships, tenable for six to twelve months at the AAS, with a maximum stipend of $27,500, are available to Ameri­can citizens or those who have resided in the United States for at least three years preceding their award. They may not be awarded to degree candidates. NEH Fel­lows must devote full time to their study and may not hold other fellowships simul­taneously except sabbaticals or other grants from their own institutions.

POSITIONS

Brown University seeks applicants for the position of Brown University Fellow in the History of Biology and Medicine, a two-year, nomenewable position to be held jointly in the Department of History and in the Division of Biology and Medi­cine and to begin July 1987. A commit­ment to undergraduate education as well as a high level of scholarship is expected. The fellow will participate in activities of Brown's Program in Liberal Medical Edu­cation and teach half-time (one course per term). The remaining half time will be devoted to research. Candidates must have a Ph.D. by June 1987 in the history of biology or medicine or closely related fields. Send letter of application and cur­riculum vitae to Joan L. Richards, Depart­ment of History, Box N, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 by 15 January 1987. AA/EOE.

The Department of History and Philoso­phy of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, invites appli­cations for a tenure-track faculty position in the history of medicine. Candidates must have an M.D. or Ph.D. Rank and salary commensurate with qualifications.

• Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellow­ships providing $700 per month are avail­able for one to three months to persons including Ph.D. candidates and foreign nationals who are engaged in scholarly research and writing in any field in Ameri­can history and culture through 1896 in which the AAS holds strong collections.

• Albert Boni Fellowships supply $700 per month for one or two months for work in the general fields of early American bibliography or printing and publishing history.

• At least two Frances Hiatt Fellowships of $700 per month for one or two months will be awarded in 1987-1988 to graduate students engaged in research for doctoral dissertations.

• The AAS and the Newberry Library in

Preference to applicants with research interests in American medicine or clinical subjects. The appointee will share in the teaching of health science students and participate in the existing graduate pro­gram. Applications should include curric­ulum vitae, statement about professional goals, and three letters of recommenda­tion and should be sent to Guenter B. Risse, Chair, Department of the History and Philosophy of Health Sciences, Uni­versity of California, San Francisco, Box 0726, 533 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143. Application dead­line 15 December 1986. AA/EOE.

The Program in History of Science and Technology at Case Western Reserve Uni­versity invites applications for a perma­nent or tenure-track position in history of technology for fall1987, rank open. A Ph.D. is required; substantial scholarly achievement or potential and commit­ment to excellence in teaching must be documented. Preference will be given to candidates with specialization in modem (nineteenth- or twentieth-century) Ameri­can topics, especially with an orientation toward science, technology, and society. Salary is competitive. Send applications, including curriculum vitae and at least

History of Science Society N evvsletter

Chicago encourage scholars whose re­search can be strengthened through resi­dence at both libraries to make application jointly to both institutions' short-term fellowship programs. Either the Newberry or the AAS form may be used. The Newberry Library has two clos­ing dates annually, 1 March and 15 Octo­ber. The AAS deadline is 31 January. • Application materials may be ob­tained from John B. Hench, Associate Director for Research and Publication, AAS, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609; telephone (617) 752-5813 or (617) 755-5221.

Upcoming deadlines for various American Council of Learned Societies (ACLSJ grants are as follows: • Grants-in-Aid for personal travel and maintenance away from home necessary to gain access to materials, research or clerical assistance, and reproduction or purchase of materials. Stipends will not exceed $3,000 and should be expended

three letters of reference, to Alan Rocke, Chairman, Search Committee, Depart­ment of History, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106. Appli­cation deadline is 15 December 1986. AA/EOE.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA} History Office seeks a qualified scholar to research and write a management history of the Space Station Program. NASA expects to be able to support one year's full-time effort, which should result in a documented, publishable essay monograph. The dead­line for proposals is 1 February 1987. Those considering making proposals should contact Sylvia Fries for further information by 1 November 1986 at NASA, Washington, DC 20546; telephone (202) 453-2999.

Sylvia Fries reported earlier that owing

DON'T FORGET: To get announcements of positions between newsletters, send your name and address to Edith D. Sylla, HSS Secretary, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Box 8101, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8101.

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within one year after acceptance. Dead­line for receipt of applications is 15 De­cember 1986. • Travel Grants for Humanists to Interna­tional Meetings Abroad for persons who are to read papers or have a major, official role in the meeting. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. degree or equivalent and must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Request application forms from the Travel Grant Office of the ACLS. Deadlines for receipt of completed appli­cation forms are 1 July for meetings November-February, 1 November for meetings March-June, and 1 March for meetings July-October. • The International Research and Ex­changes Board (IREX), with the Social Science Research Council as cosponsor, administers scholarly exchange programs with tastem Europe and the Soviet Union. Deadline for grants for long-term (two to ten months) research in eligible countries is 1 November 1986 for partici­pation during 1987-1988. Deadlines for

to current budget constraints the NASA History Office has found it necessary to defer funding of a contract to research and write a narrative history of the Space Shuttle (Orbiter, External Tank, and Solid Rocket Booster). When funding is avail­able, the reavailability of the contract for the Space Shuttle history will be an­nounced in the Newsletter.

Tentative authorization has been granted at the University of New Hampshire for appointment, beginning September 1987, of a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of science, with regular teaching responsibilities also in an inter­disciplinary humanities program. Dead­line for application has been tentatively set for 1 December 1986. For further infor­mation contact Professor Jeffrey Diefen­dorf, Department of History, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824.

Sarah Lawrence College announces an opening for a one- or three-year full-time position beginning September 1987 in the area of science and society or history of ~cience. Candidates should have expertise m the political economic and social issues arising ;ut of the d~velopments in

short-term (three weeks) research in eligi­ble countries are 31 October 1986, 31 January 1987, and 30 April1987 for re­search beginning three months after the deadline.

General inquiries and requests for appli­cation forms for all these programs should be addressed to the Office of Fellowships and Grants, ACLS, 228 East 45th Street, New York, NY 10017-3398. In requesting application forms for the programs of grants, the prospective applicant should state highest academic degree held and date received, citizenship or permanent residence, academic or other position, field of specialization, proposed subject of research or study, period of time for which support is requested, and the specific award program under which an applica­tion is contemplated. Application may be made under only one program except in the case of participation in conferences abroad.

The American Institute of the History of

modem science and technology, as well as an ability and interest in developing a teaching program to deal with these issues in an undergraduate environment. Teach­ing at Sarah Lawrence is carried out in seminar classes and individual tutorials. Requirements: successful teaching experi­ence, a strong commitment to undergrad­uate teaching, and Ph.D. or an equivalent commitment to scholarship. Send curric­ulum vitae and references, plus outlines of two proposed courses with reading lists and description of research interests, to Science and Society Search Committee, c/o Janet Held, Faculty Secretary, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY 10708. Deadline 15 November 1986. AA/EOE; minorities and women encouraged to apply.

The Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum announces two imme­diate openings in its Video History Pro­ject, which has been awarded a $131,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to begin a project expected to last four years exploring how video technology can aid in documenting the history of science and technology in their relation to na­tional life (see announcement under Re­lated Societies and Programs). The first

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Pharmacy (AIHP} located at the Univer­sity of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy announces that it has recently expanded its program to include grants to aid thesis work and foster teaching improvement in the history of pharmacy and has increased the amount awarded in the Fischelis Scholar Competition. • Up to $5,000 may be awarded annually to help defray direct costs of dissertation research related to the history of phar­macy. • The AIHP Teaching Improvement program, for which the application proc­ess is now open, provides a matching grant of up to $15,000 for one year in residence at a host university where the recipient can attend relevant advanced courses in history of pharmacy and related humanistic studies. • The Fischelis Scholar Competition awards $22,000 biennially for research projects related to a historical understand­ing of some area of twentieth-century American pharmacy.

opening is for the Sloan Videohistory Project Manager with a salary range of $31, 619 to $41, 105 per year. Expected qualifications include at least two years' professional experience and knowledge of twentieth-century history of science and technology, scientific institutions, or intellectual history, or anthropology, as well as knowledge of videohistory and oral history techniques and general archival practices. For the vacancy announcement, call ( 202) 35 7-2465 and ask for Announce­ment 86-405-T. The second opening is for a Sloan Videohistory Project Assistant with a salary range of $14,390 to $23,170. Expected qualifications include knowl­edge of twentieth-century history of sci­ence and technology, scientific institutions, intellectual history or an­thropology. For the vacancy announce­ment, call (202) 357-2465 and ask for Announcement 86-406-T. For further information about both positions call or write David H. DeVorkin, Room 3557, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560; telephone (202) 357-2828.

The Department of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announces a possible tenure-track ap-

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For more information write the Ameri­can Institute of the History of Pharmacy, Pharmacy Building, 425 N. Charter Street, Madison, WI 53706-1508; tele­phone (608) 262-5378.

The American Schools of Oriental Re­search (ASORJ is offering over $150,000 in research, study, and travel grants for the 1987-1988 academic year and the sum­mer of 1987 for study in the Middle East. Awards are available to undergraduates, graduate students, seminarians, and post­doctoral scholars, for humanistic study in the Middle East from prehistoric through Islamic times. Recipients join the schol­arly community of the Albright Institute in Jerusalem, the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman, or the Cy­prus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia. Awards include Na­tional Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships with stipends up to $25,000 in Jerusalem and

pointment, beginning August 1987 for an assistant professor unless rank and experi­ence require appointment at a higher level. Area of specialization: since 1700; fields open, but must complement exist­ing faculty. Preference is for history of chemistry; the department is also inter­ested in history of technology or history of the earth sciences. Strong preference for applicants with completed Ph.D. The successful applicant will be expected to develop a significant program of teaching and research. Inquiries and applications should be directed to David C. Lindberg, Chairman, Department of the History of Science, 4143 Helen C. White Hall, Uni­versity of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706; telephone (608) 262-1406/3971. Apply as soon as possible, but not later than 1 February 1987. Informal contact is encour­aged during annual meeting of the History of Science Society in Pittsburgh, 23-26 October 1986. AA/EOE.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University announces its intention to hire a new director of the Center for the Study of Science in Society. The Center is a research and teaching unit designed to contribute to understanding the interac­tions of science, technology, and society.

Amman, annual professorships in all three locations with room and board benefits, and a number of smaller fellowships. Application deadline for most awards is 3 November 1986. For details and applica­tion information, write American Schools of Oriental Research, 4243 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104; telephone (215) 222-4643.

The Society for the Humanities, Cornell University invites applications for six Junior Fellowships for 1987-1988. Each Junior Fellow receives $24,000 for the year, is expected to spend most of the time at Cornell in research and writing, but is encouraged to offer an informal seminar. The focal theme for 1987-1988 will be The Humanities and Race. Applicants must have received the Ph.D. degree by the time of their application and within the past ten years. They must have one or more years of college teaching experience. The following material must be submitted by 1 November 1986: curriculum vitae

It is a department-level unit in the College of Arts and Sciences with its own faculty, which offers, in cooperation with faculty from the departments of History, Philoso­phy, and Sociology, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in science and technology studies (STS). Center faculty also take part in undergraduate instruction. The director is expected to provide leadership and to foster a collegial atmosphere for this com­plex enterprise. The director's salary is competitive and the appointment is a senior one, carrying tenure. The new director will begin 1 July 1987 or shortly thereafter. Closing date for nominations and applications is 15 November 1986. Candidates are expected to have a substan­tial record of scholarship in STS and suit­able administrative experience. Nominations and applications (including. names of three referees) should be sent to Larry Laudan, Chair, Search Committee, Center for the Study of Science in Society, Virginia ~ech, Blacksburg, VA 24061. AA/ EOE.

FOR THE RECORD The American Society for Microbiology Center for the History of Microbiology announced 30 July 1986 their interest in employing an Archivist/Historian to

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and copies of not more than three schol­arly publications; detailed statement of current research interests; two- to four­page discussion of the kind of teaching the applicant would like to pursue at the Society; and three letters of recommenda­tion from senior colleagues. For exact details of the application process, write immediately to Jonathan Culler, Director, Society for the Humanities, Cornell Uni­versity, 27 East Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14853-llOl.

The sixteenth annual Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents is sched­uled for 15-26 June 1987 in Madison, Wisconsin. Jointly sponsored by the Na­tional Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the State Histori­cal Society of Wisconsin, and the Univer­sity of Wisconsin, the institute will provide detailed theoretical and practical instruction in documentary editing. Ap­plicants should hold a master's degree in history or American civilization. A lim-

begin as early as 1 October 1986. The person employed is to develop and manage scientific archives located at the Univer­sity of Maryland, Baltimore County. In particular, the archivist will execute a project to design and implement a computer-based inventory of the archives' collections. Qualifications: ALA­accredited M.L.S. or M.A. in History or History of Science, with training in archi­val administration, principles, and prac­tices required. One or more years professional archival experience strongly desired. Knowledge of microcomputing required. Full-time appointment at a starting salary of $10.00 per hour. To apply submit a complete resume and the names and addresses of three references. For more information contact Donald E. Shay, Chairman, Archives Committee, Ameri­can Society for Microbiology, 205 Hilltop Road, Linthicum, Maryland 21090; tele­phone (301) 859-5434. AA/EOE.

DON'T OVERLOOK the positions with October or November deadlines announced in the July 1986 Newsletter: University of Connecticut, Dumbarton Oaks, University of Georgia.

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ited number of tuition and travel grants are available. Major funding for the insti­tute is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Further information and application forms arc available from the NHPRC, Room 3000, National Archives Building, Washington, DC 20408; tele­phone (202) 523-3092. Application dead­line is 15 March 1987.

Applications are nmently being accepted for the 198 7-19 8 8 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE} Fellow­ship in Electrical History. The fellowship is for either one year of full-time graduate work in the history of electrical science and technology at a college or university of recognized standing, or for the support of up to one year of research for a recent Ph.D. graduate in the same field. For a predoctoral recipient, the fellowship sti­pend is $9,000, with an additional amount of up to $2,000 to pay academic tuition and fees. The stipend is $11,000 for a postdoctoral recipient. The deadline for receipt of application is 1 February 1987. Application forms may be obtained from the IEEE Center for the History of Electrical Engineering, 345 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017.

Lynne V. Cheney, the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Humani­ties, in a speech at the National Council o~ the Humanities on 8 August, espe­Cially invited applications to the NEH Humanities Media Program for television and radio biographies on the lives of his­torically significant Americans. As for all media programs, NEH grants are available for planning, scripting, or production and may cover single programs or series in a variety of documentary and dramatic formats. Collaboration between scholars in the humanities and media artists and professionals is essential. For more infor­mation contact NEH Division of General Programs, Humaniti~s Projects in Media Room 420, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue ' NW, Washington DC 20506· telephone (20 I

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2) 786-0278. The next deadline for receipt of applications for this program is 20 March 1987.

The National Graduate Fellows Program (~GFPJ of the U.S. Department of Educa­tion awards fellowships to graduate stu­dents in the humanities social sciences d I I

fan arts, including history of science. The ello h" ws 1ps are awarded for one year and

are renewable for up to an additional three

·years and cover tuition plus a stipend of up to $10,000 per year. For information about the next competition contact Allen Cissell, NGFP-Mail Stop 3327, U.S. Department of Education, ROB 3, 7th and D Streets SW, Washington, DC 20202.

The National Library of Medicine plans to select one scholar to engage in research and staff consultation during the 1987-1988 season. Applications are now invited from individuals interested in spending from six to twelve months at the Library between 1 September 198 7 and 31 August 1988. Detailed announcements and appli­cation forms may be obtained from the Chief, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rock­ville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894; tele­phone (301) 496-5405. Deadline is 1 February 1987.

The National Science Foundation has a new announcement of its Ethics and Values Studies (EVSJ program supporting projects that examine ethical or value issues associated with current U.S. scien­tific or engineering research or its use. Closing dates for submitting preliminary proposals to EVS are 1 May and 1 Novem­ber each year; subsequent closing dates for formal proposals are 1 August and 1 Febru­ary. For a copy of the armouncement, write NSF Forms and Publications, 1800 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20550. For further information, write or call the Coordinator, EVS, National Science Foun­dation; telephone (202) 357-9894.

The New Jersey Historical Commission provides grants-in-aid up to $10,000 for research, teaching, public programs, con­servation, or publication related to New Jersey history. Applications deadlines are 1 October, 1 February, and 1 June. For guide­lines and application materials request the Commission's Grants Guidelines Booklet for 1987 from Grants and Prizes, New Jersey Historical Commission, 113 W. State Street, CN 305, Trenton, NJ 08625; telephone (609) 292-6062.

The University of Pennsylvania an­nounces Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities for younger scholars who, by 30 September 1987, will have held the Ph.D. for not fewer than three and not more than eight years. Research proposals are invited in all areas of hu­manistic studies except educational curriculum-building and performing arts. Preference is given to proposals that are

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interdisciplinary and to candidates who have not previously utilized the resources of this university and whose work would allow them to take advantage of the re­search strengths of the institution and to make contributions to its intellectual life. The award carries an annual stipend of $25,000. Completed applications must be received no later than 1 December 1986. For further information and application forms, write to Dr. Stephen N. Dunning, Chairman, Humanities Coordinating Committee, 16 College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6378. AA/EOE.

Maurice L. Richardson Fellowships are available for graduate studies in the His­tory of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Beginning and ad­vanced graduate students in history of science or history of medicine are eligible. Funds are limited and awards will be made on the basis of merit and standing; stipends range from $500 to $9,000 per academic year. Students may apply for up to three academic years of support, one of which may be at the dissertation level. The deadline for applications is 15 January 1987. Apply to Department of the History of Medicine, 1415 Medical Sciences Cen­ter, 1300 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706.

The Rockefeller University will make grants of not more than $1,500 to graduate students or postgraduate scholars engaged in research requiring use of the holdings of the Rockefeller Archive Center. Grants will be made to applicants of any disci­pline. The size of individual grants will be dependent upon the travel, temporary lodging, and research expenses of the applicant. Inquiries about the program and requests for application forms should be addressed to the Director, Rockefeller Archive Center, Pocantico Hills, North Tarrytown, NY 10591-1598. The deadline for applications for 1987 grants is 31 De­cember 1986. The names of the recipients will be announced in March 1987.

FELLOWSHIPS in the July 1986 Newsletter with November deadlines are the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program and the Mellon Fellowships at Harvard and Stanford; the Francis C. Wood Institute Residency Program has a deadline of 15 January 1987.

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MEETINGS & LECTURES

The History of Physics Division and the Astrophysics Division of the American Physical Society will jointly sponsor a Symposium on the History of Astrophys­ics in the Twentieth Century, in Crystal City; Virginia, 21-22 April1987, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. The first morning will be devoted to Stellar Structure and the Origin of Stellar Energy; with addresses by Lawrence Badash (University of California­Santa Barbara), "Radioactive Dating and the Age of the Earth"; Karl Hufbauer (University of California-Irvine), "Solu­tions to the Energy Problem Proposed Before 1938"; S. Chandrasekhar (Univer­sity of Chicago), 11Stellar Structure and the Realization That Some Stars Are De­generate"; Hans Bethe (Cornell Univer-

CALLS FOR PAPERS

Cheiron: The httemational Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences invites papers, symposia, and workshops for its nineteenth annual meeting, to be held at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 10-13 June 1987. Inquiries should be directed to the Program Chair, Professor Laurel Furumoto, Department of Psychology; Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02181. Deadline for submissions is 15 January 1987.

A call for proposals for sessions at the 198 7 annual meeting of the History of Science Society to be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, 29 October-1 November, appears elsewhere in the Newsletter, under News of the Society.

PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS can still be sent for meetings, listed in the July 1986 Newsletter, of the American Society for Ethnohistory, the Midwest Victorian Studies Association, and the Thirtieth Annual Missouri Valley History Confer­ence, all with deadlines in November.

sity), "The Proton-Proton Reaction and the Carbon Cycle"; E. Salpeter (Cornell University), 'The Triple-Alpha Process and Late Stages of Stellar Evolution"; and Raymond Davis, Jr. (University of Penn­sylvania), 11 History of the Solar Neutrino Problem." The second morning is devoted to Stellar Composition, Birth of the Uni­verse, Origin of the Elements, with ad­dresses by David DeVorkin (Smithsonian Institution), 11Henry Norris Russell and the Chemical Makeup of Stars"; Robert Smith (Smithsonian Institution and Johns Hopkins University), 11The Growing Real­ization, 1917-1930, That the Universe Expands"; Ralph Alpher (Union College, Schenectady; N.Y.), 11 Cosmochemistry in the Early Universe"; Robert Herman

Papers are invited for the sixteenth annual meeting of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilization, which will take place 29-30 May 1987 at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Emphasis will be given to a number of themes, including Civilizational Encounters and the Transformation of Ideologies, Marxism as a Methodology for the Comparative Study of Civilization, Feminist Issues in the Civilizational Process, and Time: Comparative Perspectives in Civilization. To submit a paper, send seven copies of a one-page abstract by 30 November 1986 to Wayne Bledsoe, Program Chairman ISCSC 1987, Department of History /Political Science, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri 65401.

Two historical sessions-"The Use of Historical Data in Geosciences" (on the study and preservation of historical data in the different geophysical disciplines, e.g. long-term observations in meteorology; long-term auroral data and their impor­tance for solar-terrestrial relationships, evidence of old data, source problems, general problems in publication and docu­mentation of these data and their role in modem geophysical studies)-and "Past, Present, and Future Trends in Research in Aeronomy and Geomagnetism" (on peo-

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(University of Texas-Austin), "The Predic­tion of the Microwave Background Radia­tion"; William Fowler (California Institute of Technology), ''Cosmological Models and Cosmochemistry in Stars"; and Robert W. Wilson (Bell Laboratories), 11 0bservational Discovery of the Micro­wave Background, and the Confirmation of the Exploding Universe Models." Crys­tal City is just across the river from Wash­ington, D.C.; the sessions have been arranged to dovetail with those on New­ton's Principia at Maryland, described below.

Upcoming lectures in the Boston Collo­quium for the Philosophy of Science series include: "Science and Phenomenological Sociology: Alfred Schutz and Felix Kauf­mann," by Ingeborg Helling (University of Bielefeld), 21 October 1986; "Prediction, Modelling and the Scientific Method," by

ple, research programs, institutions, and their influence J will take place during the General Assembly of the International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics, Van­couver, Canada, August 1987. The papers will be published in a book. Those wish­ing to submit papers should send an ab­stract by 15 February 1987 to Wilfried Schroeder, Hechelstrasse 8, D-2820 Bremen-Roennebeck, Federal Republic of Germany.

A C. S. Peirce Sesquicentennial Interna­tional Congress is to be held at Harvard University in early fall 1989, ending on 10 September 1989, the sesquicentennial of Peirce's birth. A formal call for papers on any aspect of Peirce's diverse intellectual interests is planned for the near future. For more information or to be placed on the mailing list for news and announcements about the Congress, write to Kenneth L. Ketner, Chairperson, Peirce Sesquicenten­nial International Congress Organizing Committee, Institute for Studies in Prag­matism, 304K Library; Texas Tech Univer­sity; Lubbock, TX 79409; telephone (806) 742-3128.

Papers are invited for a conference, Per­ceiving Nature: How the Humanities, Arts, and Sciences View Our World, to be held 20-22 March 1987 on the University

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Peter Caines (McGill University), 4 No­vember 1986; 11 Newton's Third Law of Motion and the Conceptual Structure of the Scientific Revolution," by Zev Bechler (Tel Aviv University), 11 November 1986; "Self and World: Symbiotic Constraints on Scientific Realism," by Joseph Margolis (Temple University), 18 November 1986; "Soviet Studies in Logic and Epistemol­ogy: A Symposium" with lectures by G. Brutian (Yerevan), D. P. Gorski (Moscow), 1. Nikiforov (Moscow), and V. A. Lektorshy (Moscow), 25 November 1986; 11 Scientific Objectivity in Historical Perspective: The Case of Logical Positivism," by Michael Friedman (University of Illinois at Chi­cago and Harvard), 2 December 1986; "The Form of Information in Science," by Paul Mattack, Jr. (Bennington College), 9 December 1986; " Peirce, Bogtyrev and Lotman on the 'Human Sign': Narration and Ethnic Culture Texts," by Irene Portis

of Hawaii Campus, Honolulu, Hawaii. Keynote speakers include Stephen Jay Gould and Wilson Hurley. For more de­tails concerning suggested paper topics and criteria for selection of papers contact Diana DeLuca, Assistant Dean, Windward Community College, 45-720 Keaahala Road, Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744; telephone (808) 235-7424. Papers, not to exceed ten double-spaced pages, must be sent to the same address by 1 November 1986.

The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic will hold its annual meeting at the Temple University City Center Campus in Philadelphia's histori­cal district on 16-18 July 1987. Proposals are ~vited for individual papers, entire sess~ons, and discussion panels; complete sessiOn proposals are encouraged. All proposals should include a synopsis of the thesis, methodology, and significance of each paper and a curriculum vitae for each author, ana should be sent to James B. Stewart, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105. Deadline is 1 December 1986.

The Society for the History of the Federal Government (SHFG) and the National Council on Public History invite research­ers in · SCience and technology to submit paper.s or organize symposia for their joint meetmg to be held 24-26 April 198 7 in

Winner (Massachusetts College of Art and Boston University), 11 December 1986; ''Arabic Mathematics: The Historical Periodization of Classical Mathematics," by Roshdi Rashed (CNRS, Paris), 27 Janu­ary 1987. For more information write or call RobertS. Cohen, Center for the Phi­losophy and History of Science, Boston University; 7 45 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215; telephone ( 617) 353-2604.

The Comite des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques announces that the 112e Congres National des Societes Savantes will take place in Lyon 21-25 April1987. At that meeting the Section d'Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques will address itself to the history of science and tech­nology in the Lyon region and will co­sponsor an interdisciplinary colloquium, "La Ville et le Fleuve." There will also be

Washington, D.C. The meeting will pro­vide an opportunity to explore the history of science, technology, and medicine in relation to government activities, includ­ing the military; and to public policy is­sues. Three copies of the proposal and vitas for all panelists were to have been sent to SHFG, Box 14139, Benjamin Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044 by 30 September 1986.

The Society for Thxtual Scholarship an­nounces its fourth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, to be held 9-11 April1987 at the Graduate School and University Center of the City Univer­sity of New York. The theme for the 1987 conference will be "Continuity and Change in Contemporary Textual Scholar­ship." Those scholars who are members of teams engaged in major editorial and bibliographical projects may hold meet­ings of the members of the team and other interested individuals as part of the meet­ing. Anyone wishing to propose a paper ?r team meeting or to be placed on the mail­ing list for further announcements should write toW. Speed Hill and Barbara Oberg, Program Co-Chairs, Society for Textual Scholarship, c/o Papers of Benjamin Franklin, 1603A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 October 1986.

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sessions concerning the history of textiles. Those wishing to participate should re­quest further information and registration forms from 112e Congres National des Societes Savantes, Comite des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 3-5 Boule­vard Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France. Registra­tion forms should be returned by 15 January 1987.

A symposium on The Michelson Era in American Science, 1870-1930, will be held on the campus of Case Western Re­serve University 28-29 October 1987, as part of a wide-ranging group of scientific, historical, and cultural activities marking the centennial of the Michelson-Morley experiment. The symposium is designed to explore topics concerning Michelson, Morley, or the experiment itself, or more broadly related to the context of American physics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Ten invited papers have been solicited, including a keynote address by Daniel Kev les. All interested scholars are invited to attend; contingent upon funding, a limited number of sti­pends may be available for nonpresenting participants. Publication of the proceed­ings is being actively explored; in addition to the contributions of the invited pre­senters, interested scholars are invited to submit manuscripts on topics relating to the symposium for possible inclusion in the symposium volume. For further infor­mation on stipends, manuscript submis­sions, or other details, contact Alan Rocke, Program in History of Science and Technology; Case Western Reserve Univer­sity; Cleveland, OH 44106.

Upcoming lectures at the Section of His­tory and Philosophy of Science, New York Academy of Sciences, include Gert Schu­bring (Universitat Bielefeld), "The Dis­semination of the ecole polytechnique in Europe as a Model of Scientific Research and Training," 22 October 1986; Ann Hibner Koblitz (Wellesley College), "The Mythification of Sofia Kovalevskaia," 4 December 1986; Erwin N. Hiebert (Har­vard University), "The Scientist as Philos­opher of Science," 28 January 1987. All meetings are scheduled at 8:00p.m. at the New York Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd Street, New York 10021; telephone (212) 838-0230.

The Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the National Museum

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of American History of the Smithsonian Institution will sponsor a symposium, supported by a major grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, entitled Newton's Principia 1687-1987, on 23-25 April 1987. The symposium will focus on New­ton's published work, its relation to the science of his time, its influence on eighteenth-century civilization, and its relevance to the twentieth century. There will be eight or nine lectures arranged in four half-day sessions. A research discus­sion by specialists will be scheduled in a morning session. The National Museum of American History will present a new exhibit, 11Newton and the Principia: A Tercentenary Celebration." The registra­tion fee for the symposiul]l is $50, or $40 if paid by 1 April1987 (special rate of $25 or $20 by 1 April1987 for students, senior citizens, and unemployed scholars). Checks should be made payable to the University of Maryland. Direct further inquiries to the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Mary­land, College Park, MD 207 42; telephone (301) 454-2740 or 7492.

A Schrodinger Centenary Conference, celebrating the birth of Erwin Schrodinger in 1887, will be held 31 March-3 April 1987 at Imperial College, London. Seven half-day sessions will cover biography, cosmology, wave mechanics, statistical mechanics, unified theories of fundamen­tal forces, chemistry, and molecular biol­ogy. Plenary lectures will be delivered by S. W. Hawking, M. J. Klein, L. Pauling, M. F. Perutz, and S. Weinberg, among others. For the second circular, write immediately to Secretary, Schrodinger Centenary Conference, Room 637, Huxley Building, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, England.

The Stanford Humanities Center will sponsor a conference on 11 Humans, Ani­mals, Machines: Boundaries and Projec­tions/' on 23-25 April1987. The conference will focus on the historic de­bate about human nature as distinct from the animal world, on the one hand, and mechanical objects, on the other. Sessions include Biology and Culture, Boundaries and Humanity, Machines, Mechanism and Society, and Minds and Computers. For more information contact Morton Sosna, Stanford Humanities Center, Mari­posa House, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-8630; telephone (415) 723-3052.

Prize Competitions

The James L. CliHord Prize of $300 is awarded to the best nominated article studying some aspect of eighteenth­century culture and of interest to any eighteenth-century specialist regardless of discipline. The article should be not longer than 7.,500 words, it must have appeared in print in a journal, festschrift, or other serial publication between July 1985 and June 1986, and it must be nomi­nated by a member of the American Soci­ety for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) or by its author, who must be a member of the ASECS at the time of the award. Nominations must be accompa­nied by an offprint or copy of the article and must be postmarked by 1 February 1987. Send nominations or inquiries to ASECS, R. G. Peterson, Executive Secre­tary, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057; telephone (507) 663-3488.

The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS} has decided to institute a prize of $10,000 to be awarded to the best research essay that brings to light the scientific achievements of a Third World scientist prior to the twentieth century whose work has not been hitherto clearly recog-

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nized. The contest is open to all scholars. The prize will be awarded in 1988, and the closing date for announcement of inten­tion by those intending to submit an essay is 30 October 1987. Further information may be obtained from the Executive Secre­tary of the TWAS at the following address: TWAS History of Science Prize, Interna­tional Centre for Theoretical Physics, P 0. Box 586, 34100 Trieste, Italy.

Dissertations

University of Chicago Regis Cabral, 11The Interaction of Science and Diplomacy: Latin America, the United States, and Nuclear Energy, 1945-1955." Ph.D. completed August 1986.

Universite de Montreal Joseph Caron, 11 Les commencements de la biologie: Ses bases conceptuelles et insti­tutionnelles dans 1' Angleterre victo­rienne." Ph.D. completed 1986.

University of Minnesota Frederick H. Fellows, 11J. H. Van Vleck: The Early Life and Work of a Mathemati­cal Physicist." Ph.D. completed 1985.

Karen E. Johnson, 11 Maria Goeppert Mayer and the Development of the Shell Model of the Nucleus." Ph.D. completed 1986.

AWARDS, HONORS, & APPOINTMENTS

Jonathan C. Coopersmith, Ph.D. Oxford University 1985, has been awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellowship in Electrical History for 1986-1987. He will spend September and October in the Soviet Union and the remainder of the academic year at the Russian Research Center, Harvard Univer­sity, and the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working on a history of the electrification of Russia.

William Charles Kimler has joined the History Department, North Carolina State University, as a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of science. He received his Ph.D. in evolutionary biology in 1983 from Cornell University and has been on the faculty there. In 1983-1984, he was a NATD postdoctoral fellow in the

history and philosophy of science at the University of Leeds, England.

Among the graduate students in history of science who received National Graduate Fellowships for 1986-1987 from the U.S. Department of Education are Donna Me­hos (University of Pennsylvania), Sarah Tracy (University of Pennsylvania), and Daryl J. Schwartz (Harvard University).

Among the scholars receiving research grants from the Rockefeller Archive Cen­ter of Rockefeller University are the fol­lowing: Paul G. Anderson (Washington University School of Medicine), Glenn Emil Bugos (University of Pennsylvania), Elie Feuerwerker (Harvard University), Kristie I. Macrakis (Harvard University), Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz (Harvard University), and Doris Teichler Zallen (Virginia Polytechnic Institute).

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Books Received by Isis June-August 1986

Ordering informat il1n: Hooks ;md public<ltions listed n1 tl1e /ISS Newsletter arc available fnn1i t!H· publisher. The History of Science .')ocict y cannot fill orders for non-1 J')') publishers.

Note: Most bouks 1111 the Hooks Received List that will hell'\ H'Wt.:d in Isis have already been ;Jssi,~,Jcd t(> rc·viewcrs. If you arc interested in n·\· icwing ;J forthcoming book for Isis, plclst.· !ill in the coupon "News of Forthl·umin.~~ Books" in this section.

Anatole Abragam. Reflections of a Physicist. 159 pp. Paris: Herman, 198.1 (in French); Oxford/New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press, 1986. $22.95.

Margaret Alic. Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Nine­teenth Century ix + 229 pp., illus., bibl., index. Boston: Beacon Press with the Women's Press, London, 1986. $20.

David Elliston Allen. The BotLmists: A History of the Botanical Society of the British Isles Through a Hundred and Fifty Years. xv + 232 pp., illus., apps., index. Winchester, U.K.: St. Paul's Biblio!,'Taphies, 1986. $25. (Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, Charlottes­ville, Va.)

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Kenneth J. Carpenter. The History of Scurvy and Vitamin C. viii + 288 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge/London/ New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. $39.50.

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Nicholas Copernicus. Complete Works. Edited by Pawel Czarotyski. Translation and commen­tary by Edward Rosen with the assistance of Ema Hilfstein. Volume III: Minor Works. 224 pp., index. Warsaw'~ra~ow: Po~ish Scientific Publishers, 1986. (D1stnbuted m the U.K. by Macmillan Press, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and in the U.S. by Stockton Press, New York, N.Y.)

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Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. Mobilizing Against AIDS: The Unfin­ished Story of a Virus. Written by Eve K. Nich­ols. x + 212 pp., apps., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 1986.

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Martin D. Kamen. Radiant Science, Dark Politics: A Memoir of the Nuclear Age. Fore­word by Edwin M. McMillan. xii + 348 pp., illus., index. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1985.

Milton Katz. Ban the Bomb: A History of SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, 1957-1985. xv + 215 pp., illus., bibl., index. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986. $35.

Richard F. Kitchener. Piaget's Theory of Knowl­edge: Genetic Epistemology and Scientific Reason. ix + 230 pp., bibl., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 1986. $25.

Randolph S. Klein (Editor). Science and Society in Early America: Essays in Honor of Whitfield f. Bell, Jr. 426 pp., illus., index. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1986. $30.

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David 0. Levine. The American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915-1940. 281 pp., bibl., index. Ithaca, N.Y./Landon: Cornell University Press, 1986. $29.95.

Sven-Eric Liedman. Das Spiel der Gegensatze: Friedrich Engels' Philosophie und die Wissens­chaften des 19. Jahrhunderts. 221 pp., bibl. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 1984. DM 38 (paper).

David C. Lindberg; Ronald L. Numbers (Edi­tors). God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter b~tween Christianity and Science. xi + 516 pp., bibl., index. Berkeley/Los Angeles/ London: University of California Press, 1986. $50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Eric Livingston. The Ethnomethodological Foundations of Mathematics. (Studies in Ethno­methodology.) xii + 241 pp., app., bibl., figs. London/Boston: Routledge &. Kegan Paul, 1986. $49.95.

Clare Lloyd. The Travelling Naturalists. 156 pp., color plates, illus., bibl., index. Seattle: University of Washington Press with Croom Helm Ltd., Kent, England, 1985. $19.95.

Andy Lusis. Astronomy and Astronautics: An Enthusiast's Guide to Books and Periodicals. xxx + 292 pp., indexes. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1986. $24.95.

George E. Marcus; Michael M. J. Fischer. Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experi­mental Moment in the Human Sciences. xiii + 205 pp., bibl., index. Chicago/London: Univer­sity of Chicago Press, 1986. $9.95.

Lynn Margulis; Dorion Sagan. Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution. 301 pp., illus., index. New York: Summit Books, 1986. $17.95.

John A. Mayes. The Quantum Velocity of Light and the Unification of Quantum and Classical Physics. xxxiv + 228 pp., figs., bibl., index. Orange, Conn.: John A. Mayes Quantum Publi­cations, 1984.

David J. Meltzer; Don D. Fowler; Jeremy A. Sabloff (Editors). American Archaeology, Past and Future: A Celebration of the Society for American Archaeology, 1935-1985. 479 pp., illus., bibls. Washington, D.C./Landon: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986.

Sir Nevill Mott. A Life in Science. xiii + 198 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. London/ Philadelphia: Taylor &Francis, 1986. $27.

Ernest Neal. The Natural History of Badgers. Foreword by Sir David Attenborough. xvii + 238 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York/Oxford: Facts on File Publications, 1986. $19.95.

·Joseph Needham. Science and Civilization in China. With the collaborat~on of Lu Gwei-Djen and a special contribution by Huang Hsing­Tsung. Volume VI: Biology and Biological Technology. Part 1: Botany. xxxii + 718 pp., illus., bibls., index. Cambridge/London/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. $95.

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Ann Oakley. The Captured Womb: A History of the Medical Care of Pregnant Women. 352 pp., figs., apps., bibl., index. Oxford/New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984; paperback ed., 1986. $9.95 (paper).

Mitchell Okun. Fair Play in the Marketplace: The First Battle for Pure Food and Drugs. 345 pp., apps., bibl., index. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986. $27.50.

Abraham Pais. Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World. xiv + 666 pp., figs., app., indexes. Oxford/New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press, 1986. $24.95.

T. R. Paton Perspectives on a Dynamic Earth. With the assistance of J. Clarke. 142 pp., figs., illus., bibl., index. London/Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1986. $29.95 (cloth); $11.95 (paper).

Willie Pearson, Jr. Black Scientists, White Society; and Colorless Science: A Study of Universalism in American Science. xi + 201 pp., figs., bibl., index. Millwood, N.Y.: Associ­ated Faculty Press, 1986. $24.

Raquel Alvarez Pelaez. Sir Francis Galton, padre de la eugenesia. (Cuademos Galileo de Historia de la Ciencia, 4.) 175 pp., illus., bibl. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas Centro de Estudios Hist6ricos, 1985. (Paper.)

Merrill D. Peterson (Editor]. Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Bibliography. xiii + 513 pp., illus., index. New York: Scribner, 1986. $65.

Trevor Pinch. Confronting Nature: The Sociol­ogy of Solar-Neutrino Detection. (Sociology of the Sciences Monographs.) xi + 268 pp., app., bibl., index. Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1986. $49.50. (Photo-offset from type­script.) (Distributed in U.S. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Hingham, Mass.)

David Pingree. The Astronomical Works of Gregory Chioniades. Volume 1: The Z ij Al-e Ala~ I. Part 2: Tables. (Corpus des Astrono­mcs Byzantins, 2.)235 pp. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1986. (Paper.)

Jean-Claude Pont. L'aventure des paralleles: Prehistoire de la geometrie non euclidienne­precurseures et attardes. 736 pp., figs., bibl., indexes. Berne: Peter Lang, 1986. SwF 121 (paper).

Charlotte M. Porter. The Eagle's Nest: Natural History and American Ideas, 1812-1842. (His­tory of American Science and Technology Series.) xii + 251 pp., illus., bibl., index. Uni­versity: University of Alabama Press, 1986. $24.95.

Theodore M. Porter. The Rise of Statistical T~g, 1820-1900. xii + 333 pp., index. Prmceton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. Beyond the Gutenberg Galaxy: Microcomputers and the Emergence of ~ost-'JYpographic Culture. x + 116 pp., bibl., mdex_. New York: Teachers College Press, Co­lumbia University, 1986. $8.95 (paper).

Robert Raymond. Out of the Fiery Fumace: The ~pact of Metals on the History of Mankind. x1v + 274 pp., illus., index. University Park/ London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986. $35 (cloth); $20 (paper); $10 (study guide).

Helene Richard. Le voyage de d'Entrecasteaux a la recherche de Laperouse. Preface by Michel Mollat du Jourdin. (Memoires de la Section d'Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, 3.) 376 pp., figs., illus., bibl., index. Paris: Editions du Comite de Travaux Historiques et Scientifi­ques, 1986. Fr 250 (paper).

Robert H. S. Robertson. Fuller's Earth: A His­tory of Calcium Montmorillonite. xviii + 421 pp., illus., figs., app., bibl., index. Hythe, Kent: Voltuma Press, 1986. £25.

Steven Rose; Lisa Appignanesi (Editors). Science and Beyond. vii + 211 pp., index. Oxford/New York: Basil Blackwell with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1986. $24.95.

Edward Rosen. Three Imperial Mathematicians: Kepler Trapped Between 'JYcho Brahe and Ursus. 384 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. New York: Abaris Books, 1986. $20.

Fran~ois Russo. Introduction a 1 'histoire des techniques. 533 pp., bibls., indexes. Paris: A. Blanchard, 1986. Fr 195 (paper).

Robert Sanderson. Logicae artis compendium. Edited by E. J. Ashworth. (Instrurnenta rationis: Sources for the History of Logic in the Modem Age, 2.) lv + 382 pp., indexes. Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna, 1985.

G. Edward Schuh (Editor). Technology; Human Capital, and the World Food Problem. (Based on proceedings of the Alexander von Humboldt Award Colloquium, 1984.) x + 167 pp., figs., apps., bibls. St. Paul: University of Mirmesota, Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1986. (Paper.) (Photo-offset from typescript.)

Bernard Schultz. Art and Anatomy in Renais­sance Italy. (Studies in the Fine Arts: Art The­ory, 12.) xvii + 258 pp., illus., bibl., index. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1985. $44.95.

John A. Schuster; Richard R. Yeo (Editors). The Politics and Rhetoric of Scientific Method: Historical Studies. (Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 4.) xxxix + 305 pp., index. Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1986. Dfl 152, $64.50. (Distributed in North America by Kluwer Academic Publish­ers, Hingham, Mass.)

Robert Shapiro. Origins: A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth. 332 pp., bibl., index. New York: Summit Books, 1985. $17.95.

Laurence D. Smith. Behaviorism and Logical Positivism: A Reassessment of the Alliance. 398 pp., index. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986.

Katherine R. Sopka. Physics for a New Century: Papers Presented at the 1904 St. Louis Con­gress. Introduction by Albert E. Moyer. (The History of Modem Physics, 1800-1950, 5.) xx + 300 pp., illus .. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1986. $30 (cloth).

Darwin Stapleton. Accounts of European Sci­ence, Technology; and Medicine Written by American Travelers Abroad, 1735-1860, in the Collections of the American Philosophical Society. (Library Publication, 9.) 48 pp. Phila­delphia: American Philosophical Society Li­brary, 1985. $5 (paper).

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Paul B. Stares. The Militarization of Space: US. Policy, 1945-84. (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs.) 334 pp., apps., bibl., index. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985. $25.

Stephen M. Stigler. The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900. Cambridge, Mass./London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986. $25.

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Martin Tamny; K. D. Irani (Editors). Rationality in Thought and Action. (Contributions in Philosophy, 29.) xx + 286 pp., bibl., index. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986. $37.50.

Charles Thmer Thackrah. The Effects of Arts, Trades and Professions on Health and Longev­ity. Preface by Saul Benison. Introduction by A. Meiklejohn. (Resources in Medical History.) xiv + 217 pp., illus., index. Canton, Mass.: Science History Publications USA, 1985. $15.

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Sewall Wright. Evolution: Selected Papers. Edited with an introduction by William B. Provine. xiii + 649 pp., illus., figs., bibls. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. $70 (cloth); $25 (paper).

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Kenneth G. Zysk. Religious Healing in the Veda. (Transactions of the American Philosoph­ical Society, Volume 75, Part 7.) xv + 311 pp., illus., bibl., index. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1985. $30 (paper).

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Ema Hilfstein writes that the annotation "Not exported outside the countries of the Warsaw Pact," attached to the listing of Copernicus's Complete Works, Vol. ill, in the July 1986 Newsletter, is applicable only to a certain number of copies of the book. Others are sold by Macmillan Press Ltd., Houndmills, Basing­stoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS, England. Price £60. In the United States the book may be obtained through the Stockton Press, 15 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010.

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Request for Information

The 1937 Census of Medieval and Renais­sance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada by Seymour de Ricci, Vol. II, p. 1145, No. 8, lists a seventeenth-century manuscript then in possession of Dr. D. Charles Humberd, of Barnard, Missouri, which is of interest to Beate Noack, who is investigating the history of the tradition of Aristarchos of Samos, On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon. Beate Noack, of the Freie UniversWit Berlin, Seminar fur Klassische Philologie, Ehren­bergstrasse 35, 1000 Berlin 33, West Ger­many, would appreciate hearing from anyone with information about the

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present whereabouts of this Aristarchos of Samos manuscript.

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