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1984 HSS EXECUTIVE PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE ADDRESS PRESIDENT EDWARD GRANT, Indiana University VICE-PRESIDENT WILLIAM COLEMAN, University of BY GERALD HOLTON Wisconsin - Madison SECRETI\RY AUDREY DAVIS, Smithsonian Institution DELIVERED AT THE ANNUAL HSS BANQUET, 1REASURER PALMER HOUSE HOTEL, Cl-ITCAGO, SPENCER R. WEART, American Institute of Physics 29 DECEMBER 1985 EDITOR ARNOLD THACKRAY, University of Pennsylvania It is surely appropriate, and should routinely be the case, that a retiring presi­ dent of a professional society give some accounting of his stewardship. Which The History of Science Society was founded in of the expectations raised four years earlier, when he ran for office, have been 1924 to secure the future of Isis, the international reasonably fulfilled? Which of the promises were kept, and which proved to be review that George Sarton (1884-19561 bad too difficult for the time being, despite best efforts? Where does the Society now founded in Belgium in 1912. The Society seeks to stand, viewed as an organization whose main purpose is to support the work foster interest in the history of science and its so­ cial and cultural relations, to provide a forum for and careers of its members? And what must still be done in this period of discussion, and to promote scholarly research in growth, by each of us pitching in on some task? the history of science. The Society pursues these To discuss these issues is to point out the opportunities for your personal and objectives by the publication of its journal Isis, by continued involvement in the affairs of our Society. Operationally, the term the support and subvention of other forms of schol­ "Society" has no meaning except in the activities of its individual members. arly publication, by the organization of annual meetings and other programs, by the award of And I preface this call to work with the reminder that there has hardly ever medals and prizes for outstanding contributions to been a better time for our field to benefit from an investment of your time and the history of science, by the encouragement and energy. A fair wind is in our sails. More members belong than ever, and more sponsorship of local and regional sections of the good work is being done at more centers in academe and outside. In addition, Society, and by cooperation with other leamed and the world at large seems to have noticed our existence. Thus, the NEH Report scientific societies. on the state of the humanities, released 25 November 1984, proposed that "all students should study the history of science and technology." In the Congress, the "Report of the Task Force on Science Policy to the Committee on Science IN TI-llS ISSUE and Technology" (December 1984) proclaims-albeit within narrow limits-the Federal Funding-Action Needed 2 use of history to inform the demands of the present: Fund Drive Supporters 4 "The point of departure for the proposed Science Policy Study should, we believe, Committee on Publications 12 be a thoughtful review of the developments that have brought American sci- FULL CONTENTS ON LAST PAGE Continued on page 17 page2 History of Science Society Newsletter

NEWS FROM WASHING10N FEDERAL FUNDING: TIME FOR ACTION

BY STEPHEN G. BRUSH, Washington Representative of HSS

Federal funding for the history and philos­ · tory and Philosophy of Science, which is NEH bills that they are considering, ophy of science, technology; and medicine not oruy a growth stock intellectually but please provide me with the following could increase substantially this year, but has the distinctive role of helping to keep information: (1) name, address, and tele­ there is also a strong possibility that re­ all the sciences self-critical" (COSSA phone number(s) at which you can be lated programs in ethics, values, and the Washington Update, 15 Feb. 1985]: But reached; (2) name of the congressperson humanities may be cut back or elimi­ the elimination of EVIST is ominous, for who represents the district in which you nated. The outcome will depend on what those who might otherwise applaud the live and also (if different) the district in Congress does in the next few weeks, and increase in HPS funding, as well as for which your institution is located; (3) what National Science Foundation (NSF) those who have been supported by that names of any other members of Congress and National Endowment for the Human­ program. In the hearing before the House with whom you have had personal con­ ities (NEH) administrators do during the subcommittee that considers the NSF tact or correspondence, or whom you next year as they revise priorities and authorization, NSF Director Erich Bloch know to have a special interest in history guidelines in response to budget changes. stated that EVIST-type work no longer of science (see coupon below). In order to provide rapid and effective needs its own "sheltered" program; this If you are particularly interested in input into this process, I am compiling a research can be funded in other NSF pro­ EVIST, you should write also to Senator list of historians of science and others grams such as the social and behavioral Edward Kennedy, Senator John Kerry, who are willing to write letters to con­ sciences. Professional societies have taken Senator Alfred Gore, Jr., Senator Lowell gressional committees and to their own over the "whistle-blowing" role that was Weicker, and to the Director of NSF, Erich representatives in Congress. Below is a formerly a function of the EVIST commu­ Bloch. list of the committees that consider au­ nity. COSSA concluded that "some pro­ I would also appreciate receiving blind thorization and appropriations bills for posals that might have been funded by copies of letters that you write to any NSF and NEH, with a geographical index EVIST may be eligible for funding from members of Congress on this subject, appended of members of Congress who information science, history and philoso­ along with your views on the problem of belong to these committees, so that you phy of science, sociology; computer re­ federal funding of history of science and may check representation from your search, biotechnology; or several others" the best ways to promote it. Please mail state. (COSSA Washington Update, 22 Feb. information to S. G. Brush, IPST, Univer­ The current administration budget 1985). sity of Maryland, College Park, MD proposes to increase the total funding for The House Subcommittee on Science, 20742. social and economic science within NSF Research, and Technology will be com­ by about 19 percent; to increase funding pleting its markup of the NSF authoriza­ for the History and Philosophy of Science tion bill by the end of March. The full Congressional Committees for NSF & (HPS) in NSF by about 30 percent to Committee on Science and Technology, NEH Legislation about $2.2 million (note that HPS has chaired by Don Fuqua (D-FL), will then Code letters in left column are used to taken on the responsibility of funding the act. The Subcommittee on Housing and identify committee members below. editing of the Einstein papers at $150,000 Urban Development (HUD) and Indepen­ per year for several years, which accotints dent Agencies of the House Appropria­ U.S. House of Representatives, for a significant part of the increase); to tions Committee has already started to Washington, DC 20515 eliminate funding for Ethics and Values in hold hearings on this bill, and its mem­ Science and Technology (EVIST), previ­ bers are listed below. According to the NSF Authorization ously about $1 million per year; and to COSSA Washington Update (8 March H-SRT Subcommittee on Science, reduce total NEH funding by 10 percent. 1985), when this subcommittee held Research & Technology · Historians of science now receive support hearings on the NSF appropriation, its (Committee on Science & from almost every part of NEH, including chairman, Representative Edward Boland, Technology)-Chair: Doug the relatively small Humanities, Science "asked several questions concerning the Walgren (D-PA). and Technology (HST) program, which large increase for social and economic Hearings were held on 20 & 21 will be cut from $700,000 to $650,000; science research, specifically in the eco­ February. education and research programs will be nomics and history and philosophy of NSF Appropriation reduced 17 percent but fellowship pro­ science programs. He appeared satisfied H-HIA Subcommittee on HUD & Inde­ grams including Summer Seminars will with the justifications made by Dr. David pendent Agencies-Chair: be increased about 6 percent. Kingsbury, Director of the Biological, Edward P. Boland (D-MAJ. In commenting on the budget, the Behavioral and Social Science Directorate NEH Authorization newsletter of the Consortium of Social at NSF." H-PSE Subcommittee on Postsecondary Science Associations (COSSA) said: If you are willing to write to your own Education (Committee on Educa­ "There is . . . a notable increase in His- representatives in Congress and to chair­ tion & Labor)-Chair: William persons of subcommittees about NSF and Ford (D-MIJ. Aprill985 page3

NEH Appropriation Bruce (D) H-SRT and H-PSE; Paul North Carolina: William W. Cobey, Jr. (R) H-INT Interior Subcommittee-Chair: Simon (D) S-LHR and S-EAH H-SRT; Tim Valentine (D) H-SRT Sidney Yates (O-IL). Hearings Indiana: Dan Quayle (R) S-LHR and North Dakota: Mark Andrews (R) S-INT; were held for public witnesses S-EAH Quentin N . Burdick (D) S-INT 2.0 March; for agency witnesses Iowa: Thomas Tauke (R) H-PSE; Charles Ohio: Ralph Regula (R) H-INT; Howard 2.3 April. Grassley (R) S-LHR and S-EAH M. Metzenbaum (D) S-LHR; Louis Kansas: Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R) Stokes (D) H-HIA U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510 S-STS Oklahoma: Don Nickles (R) S-LHR Kentucky: Carl C. Perkins (D) H-PSE Oregon: Lcs AuCoin (D) H-INT NSF Authorization Louisiana: J. Bennett Johnston (D) S-INT Pennsylvania: Doug Walgren (D) H-SRT; S-STS Subcommittee on Science, and S-HIA; Lindy (Mrs. Hale) Boggs (D) John P. Murtha (D) H-INT; Joseph M . Technology, & Space (Committee H-HIA McDade (R) H-INT; Joseph M. Gaydos on Commerce, Science, & Maine: John R. McKernan, Jr. (R) H-PSE (D) H-PSE; William F. Goodling (R) Transportation)-Chair: Slade Massachusetts: Edward P. Boland (D) H-PSE; Don Ritter (R) H-SRT; Lawrence Gorton (R-WA). H-HIA, also member of H-INT; Edward Coughlin (R) H-HIA S-LHR Committee on Labor & Human M. Kennedy (D) S-LHR and S-EAH; Rhode Island: Claiborne Pell (D) S-LHR Resources (full committee deals John F. Kerry (D) S-LHR; Chester and S-EAH with NSF)- Chair: Orrin Hatch Atkins (D) H-PSE South Carolina: Strom Thurmond (R) (R-UT). Michigan: William D. Ford (D) H-PSE; S-LHR NSF Appropriation Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D) S-STS; Bob South Dakota: James Abdnor (R) S-HIA S-HIA Subcommittee on HUD & Inde­ Traxler (D) H-HIA; Paul B. Henry (R) Tennessee: Albert J. Gore (D) S-STS; Bill pendent Agencies-Chair: Jake H-PSE and H-SRT Boner (D) H-HIA Gam (R-UT). Hearings for agency Minnesota: Martin Olav Sabo (D ) H-HIA; Texas: Tom Loeffler (R) H-INT witnesses were held 2.8 March; Timothy Penny (D) H-PSE Utah: Orrin G. Hatch (R) S-LHR, also for public witnesses l - 2. May. Mississippi: Thad Cochran (R) S-INT; member of S-EAH; Jake Gam (R) S-HIA NEH Authorization John C. Stennis (D) S-HIA Vermont: Robert T. Stafford (R) S-EAH, S-EAH Subcommittee on Education, Missouri: E. Thomas Coleman (R) H-PSE also member of S-LHR; Patrick J. Leahy Arts & Humanities (Committee Nevada: Paul Laxalt (R) S-INT and S-HIA (D) S-INT and S-HIA; James M. Jeffords on Labor & Human New Hampshire: Warren B. Rudman (R) (R) H-PSE Resources)-Chair: Robert Staf­ S-INT Virginia: PaulS. Trible, Jr. (R) S-STS ford (R-VT). New Jersey: Marge Roukema (R) H-PSE; Washington: Slade Gorton (R) S-STS; NEH Appropriation Frank Lautenberg (D) S-HIA Norman D. Dicks (D) H-INT S-INT Subcommittee on Interior­ New Mexico: Pete V. Domenici (R) S-HIA West Virginia: Robert C. Byrd (D) S-INT; - Chair: James A. McClure New York: Mario Biaggi (D) H-PSE; Major John D . "Jay" Rockefeller IV (D) S-STS (R-ID). R. Owens (D) H-PSE; Stan Lundine (D) Wisconsin: Steve Gunderson (R) H-PSE; H-SRT; Sherwood L. Bciehlert (R) Thomas E. Petri (R) H-PSE; William H-SRT; Bill Green (R) H-HIA; Fred Proxmire (D) S-HIA Geographical Index to Membership of Eckert (D) H-PSE; Alfonse M . D 'Amato Wyoming: Malcolm Wallop (R) S-LHR and Congressional Committees (See above for abbreviations; names of (R) S-HIA; Stephen Solarz (D) H-PSE S-EAH chairpersons arc in boldface.)

Alabama: Tom Bevill (D) H-INT Alaska: Ted Stevens (R) S-INT YES, I am willing to write to members of Congress about the NSF and NEH Arizona: Dennis DeConcini (D) S-INT; bills. Barry Goldwater (R) S-STS Arkansas: Dale Bumpers (D) S-INT Name ______California: George E. Brown, Jr. (D) H-SRT; Augustus F. Hawkins (D) Address ______H-PSE; Norman Y. Mineta (D) H-SRT; Jerry Lewis (R) .H-HIA; Mervyn Dy­ mally (D) H-PSE City------State -----Zip ------Colorado: Tim Wirth (D) H-SRT Phone(s)______Connecticut: Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. (R) S-INT, S-HIA, S-LHR, and S-EAH; Christopher Dodd (D) S-LHR and My representative is______S-EAH Florida: Paula Hawkins (R) S-LHR The representative for my institution's district is.______Hawaii: Spark M. Matsunaga (D) S-LHR and S-EAH Other members of Congress with an interest in history of scien.ce______Idaho: James A. McClure (R) S-INT Illinois: Sidney R. Yates (D) H-INT; Charles A. Hayes (D) H-PSE; Terry L. page4 History of Scieftce Society Newsletter

DONORS TO AND growing momentum of the campaign is Newsletter, April 1984. Major donors SUPPORTERS OF THE that nearly three times as many individ­ have contributed $2,000 and over. Lifec FUND DRIVE uals as last year contributed to this year's time Sustaining Members have contrib­ success. uted $1,000 and over. Sustaining Members The campaign to put the History of Sci­ Listed below are those who contributed have contributed $100 and over. Future ence Society on a sound financial and to the History of Science Society's Fund issues of the Newsletter will carry addi­ managerial basis is going very well as it Drive from 1 February 1984 to 31 January tions to this proud list of the Society's ends its second year. Indicative of the 1985. Earlier donors are listed in the HSS supporters.

Honorary Life Member Robert H. Dicke Other Donors Peter Galison John W. Olmsted MaySarton Bryce Douglas Lawrence Edwin Abt C. A Gearhart Karle S. Packard 1ohn T. Edsall EvaAnda Richard A. Gehreubeck Karen V. H. Parshall Major Donors William A. Fowler Wilbur Applebaum Michael L. George Nicholas Pastore Leo [., Beranek Allan Franklin Mitchell G. ·Ash Scott Gilbert Charles J. Peterson BernDibner Janet Bell Garber frwin C. Baker Owen Gingerich Harvey Picker J, Robert Douglas Neal C. Gillespie Martha Baldwin Mary Louise Gleason Dennis Pilarczyk Sidney M,. Edelstein C. Stewart Gillmor Joseph P. Bassi Barbara Munson Goff John K Pribram Wiliam T. Golden J. B. Goehring William Bechtel Steven L. Goldman Diane A. Puklin Joseph H. Hazen Loren Graham J, L. Berggren Orville f. Golub Ronald Rainger Gerald Holton Edward Grant Jacques Bernier Judith Goodstein Martin B. Raskin i'homas s, Kuhn John C. Greene David Blancher Janice L. Corn D.C. Reams Morton Pepper Jesse L; Greenstein James A. Booth Leon Gortler James Reed David Rockefeller Stanley M. Guraluick Mary Ellen Bowden Stephen Jay Gould Nathan Reingold l!rigerie P. Wigner Owen Hannaway Harvey Brooks Judith Grabiner Robert J. Richards Robert R. Wilson William H. Helfand Stephen C. Brush Charles I Grant V. Frederick Rickey Jacob and Josephine James S. P. Henderson Robert A Buerki Frederick Gregory Steven Riedhauser Ver Brugge Zeitlin James A Hinz Vern Bullough-Deau Roger Hahn Shirley A. Roe Anonymous Herbert J. Hodges Raymond M. Burgison David W. Hall M. LeRoger Frederic L. Holmes Leslie J. Burlingame W~tlter Hellman George M. Rosenstein Lifetime Sustaining Ralph H. Kellogg Ralph W. Cable Kenneth G. Hellyar Margaret Rossiter Members Daniell. Kevles Elof Axel Carlson Thomas J. Hendrickson Emanuel D; Rudolph Michele Aldrich Martin 1, Klein Joseph caron David K. Hill Brenda Rueger William .1\. Cole Peter K, Knoefel Peggy Champlin David Himrod Edward G. Ruestow Albert B. Costa l,R.KQen,ig David F. Channell John N. Howard James Ruffner Miles and Audrey Davis Sally G. Kohlstedt Richard L. Childers William G. Hoyt I. Sandler Joy B. Easton Ramunas Kondratas Francis P. Chinard H. T.Huau Rennie B. Scboepflin c: E. Erikson EmstMayr Frederick B. Churchill Karl Hufbauer Robert E. Schofield Bemard s. Finn Everett Mendelsohn Esther M. Ciereszko A.l. Ihde Dorothy V. Schrader Robert G. Frank, )'rc Robert K. Merton Desmond M. Clarke Saul Jarcho Susan Schultz Eugene Garfield Ronald L. Numbers Raymond B. Clayton PhillipS. Jones Harold N. Segall W. E. Haisley MaryJoNye Randall COllins John Kenyon Virginia Staudt SextOn J. Scott. Hamilton Letoy E. Page Franklin S. Cooper WilburKnon Stephen Shafroth Tames E. M<;Clellan m John Parascandola Ruth Schwartz Cowan Elaine Koppelman Daniel Siegel Michael McVaugh David Pingree Hamilton Cravens W.OcKupsch Cyril Stanley Smith JaneM.()p~ Emanuel R. Piore Ruth C. Crocker Timothy Lenoir Michael M. Sokal MargaretJ. om · Helena M. PyciOr David A. Crouthamel R. Bruce Lindsay Otton Sonntag Irwin J. Pilic\1$. Albert J. .Read Lonaine f. Daston Joel J. Uoyd Conn Sorensen Alfred Romer Karen Reeds Thomas P. Davis Jeffrey·H. Lovell Donald E. Stanley Charles Scribner, Jr. Barbara G. Rosenkrantz Virginia Parker Dawson Henry Lowood Orestes N. Stavrondis Arnold Thackray A. LSahra Luke Demaitre Jan K. Ludwig Rosemary Stevens Victor E. Thoren So1Seltzer Steven J. Dick Edythe Luizker Anthony N. Stranges Richard J. Simms Arthur Donovan Jane Maieuschein Noelia Haddock Suarez Arthur H. Smith HaroldDom Daniel Mallette Martin Tarnuy Sustaining Members Dorothy Stimson Thomas L. Drucker Dorothy Mayer Kenneth L, Th.ylor {for1984J Loyd K Swenson, Jr. RobertS. Dunham Edward A. Maziarz Edmund N. Thdd Seth C. Atwood Owsei Temkin Frank E. Durham Stephen C. and Antoinette Virieux Lawrence Badash Spencer Weart Katherine Park Dyer Constance H. McCluskey S. Reid Warren, Jr. Samuel I. Barchas Roderick S. and Marjorie Joann Eisberg E. J. McCullough Philip Weimerskirch William Bevan Webster John Eric Elliott John McKnight Walter G. Wesley Uldis Blukis Charles Weiner Guy I Emery Eman McMullin Linda Wessels J. Morton Briggs, Jr, Robert Weinstock PhilipEmos Lois Jean Meek RobertS. Westman Thomas D. cabot Lynn White, Jr. JosephEwan John Muendel Marion Whittaker John T.. Campbell L. P. Williams Lenore Feigenbaum James W. Needam Maurice M. Whitten I. Bernard Cohen Curtis A. Wilson Arthur L. Frank Ynez O'Neill M. E. Wilhelm Joseph Dauben Robert M. Galatzer·Levy

Fowulations Corporate Associates and Cotporate Donors New York Tunes Company Foundation,lnc. Charles R Culpeper Foundation, Inc. California Institute of Technology Pfizer Inc. Walter & Elise Haas Fund Cambridge University Press Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers Richard Lonnsbery Foundation Dexter Chemical Corporation Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Exxon Education Foundation Matching Individual Donations Andrew W. Mellon Foundation IBM Corporation John D. and Catherine I MacArthur National Endowment fur the Humanities Institute for Scientific luformation Foundation Project Physics, fnC; Apri11985 pageS

HSS Announcements The History of Science Society is de­ 28 December 1984 should request it from lighted to announce that Miss May Sarton Michele Aldrich at the address listed The Society's 1985 Nominating Commit­ has been named an Honorary Life Mem­ above. The topics discussed included the tee has recommended the following slate ber of the Society. Daughter of the found­ HSS jobs survey, a bibliography on women of candidates. For HSS Council for a ing editor of Isis, Miss Sarton is a in science, and the directory of women in three-year term ending 31 December world-renowned poet and the author of I the history of science. 1988: Lorraine Daston, Clark Elliott, Paul Knew A Phoenix: Sketches for an Auto­ Farber, Judy Goodstein, Robert Kohler, biography, which contains a moving William Montgomery, Alex Roland, John evocation of her father. Miss Sarton, Servos, Nancy Siraisi, and Michael Sakal. who now lives in Maine, reported that HS-Related Groups For the 1986 Nominating Committee she is "touched and pleased" at the (Council): Robert Frank, John Greene, honor. The Chilean Group of History of Science Frederic L. Holmes, Karl Hufbauer, Ra­ Historians of American science who met of the International Union for the History chel Laudan, and Margaret Rossiter; (at­ in Chicago at the HSS meeting last De­ and Philosophy of Science has been large): Frederick Gregory, Albert Moyer, cember agreed to revise and reissue the formed by twenty-five members. Its exec­ Phillip Sloane, and Edith Sylla. The stat­ directory of scholars and graduate stu­ utive committee includes Desiderio Papp utes of the Society indicate that additional dents in their field. Persons wishing to be (University of Chile), president; Hector candidates may be added by petition, listed in the directory should request a Croxatto (Pontificia Universidad Cato­ which must be signed by at le~st fifteen form from Michele Aldrich, American lica), vice-president; Angel Bate (Univer­ members of the Society. The deadline for Association for the Advancement of Sci­ sity of Santiago), general secretary; submitting such petitions to the Nomi­ ence, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue N .W., Eugenia Navas (University of Chile), nating Committee is 1 June 1985. Full Washington, DC 20005. treasurer; Ing. Eduardo Frenk (Scientific information about all candidates and the Society of Chile), and Marco Perretta ballot will be in the July issue of the Anyone wishing a copy of the minutes of (University of Chile). For more informa­ Newsletter. the HSS Women's Committee meeting on tion, contact the secretary, Dr. Ducci, No. 505, 4" piso, Santiago 1, Chile.

The Columbia History of Science Group TRAVEL AWARDS TO BERKELEY INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS was founded in 1983 to bring together historians and philosophers of science scattered throughout southwestern Can­ On 19 February the History of Science Naum S. Kipnis, Bakken Library of Elec­ ada and the northwestern United States Society announced thirty-seven awards tricity in Life; Shigehisa Kuriyama, Har­ (the Columbia River watershed); it is for travel support to the International vard University; Alejandra C. Laszlo, open to anyone interested in the cultural Congress in Berkeley this summer (see University of Pennsylvania; Kristie Ma­ framework of science. The group meets HSS Newsletter, January 1985, p. 2). The crakis, Berlin, West Germany; Marjorie annually in the spring and publishes a Selection Committee met on 16 February Malley, Bartlesville, Oklahoma; John L. semiannual-newsletter for its fifty mem­ to consider sixty-five applications; it Michel, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lee bers. The program coordinator, who is consisted of Diana Long Hall (Chair) of Mintz, Harvard University; Mark Neu­ responsible for organizing two sessions of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, stadt, fohns Hopkins University; William papers and a book discussion, automati­ Thomas Settle of the Polytechnic Insti­ Newman, Harvard University; Michael A. cally becomes president for the following tute of New York, and Mary Louise Glea­ Osborne, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; year and is then responsible for arranging son of the New York Academy of F. Jamil Ragep, Harvard University; David the meeting and for two newsletters. Sciences. Funds to cover these awards J. Rhees, National Museum of American Current officers are Joella Yoder, presi­ have been made available to the History History; Lissa Roberts, Los Angeles, Cali­ dent, and Paul Farber, program coordina­ of Science Society through the generosity fornia; David Rowe, Gottingen, West tor. The mailing address is Columbia of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund. Germany; Ronald C. Sawyer, University History of Science Group, c/ o Keith Ben­ Those receiving awards are Christopher of Wisconsin; Margaret Schabas, Ann son, Department of Biomedical History, B. Burch, University of Pittsburgh; Al­ Arbor, Michigan; Jan Butin Sloan, Univer­ SB-20, University of Washington, Seattle, berto Cambrosio, University of Montreal; sity of Kansas; Raman Srinivasan, Univer­ WA 98195. Stephen J. Cross, Pasadena, California; sity of Pennsylvania; Mary Terral!, Virginia P. Dawson, NASA Lewis Re­ Altadena, California; David K. van A center for study of the history of science search Center; James R. Fleming, Prince­ Keuren, American Philosophical Society; and technology in the four southern states ton University; Yves Gingras, Harvard Craig B. Waff, Plainsboro, New Jersey; of India will be established at Thanjavur · University; John Greenberg, Palaiseau, Elspeth Whitney, CUNY Graduate Cen­ under the auspices of the Tamil Univer­ France; Anita Guerrini, American Philo­ ter; Winifred Lovell Wisan, Oneonta, sity. The center will collect materials, sophical Society; William J. Haas, Har­ New York; Joella G. Yoder, Renton, Wash­ analyze them, and develop information vard University; Natasha X. Jacobs, ington. Awards were granted in the on the progress of science and technology. Indiana University; Lily E. Kay, National amount of $100 for California residents, Museum of American History; Irving $150 for other West Coast residents, and The new executive committee of the Kelter, CUNY Graduate Center; Barbara $300 for all others. International Society for History of Medi­ Kimmelman, University of Pennsylvania; cine was elected by the administrative page6 History of Science Society Newsletter

council at its meeting during the XXIXth The Washington History of Science Club Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Congress of this Society at Cairo on 31 has been recently reestablished. Its cur­ 20560. December 1984. Hans Schadewaldt {Uni­ rent officers are Marc Rothenberg, presi­ versity of Dusseldorf) was appointed in­ dent; Toby Appel, vice-president; and The Society for Literature and Science coming president, succeeding George L. Farre, secretary. Meetings are {SLS) will be inaugurated at the XVIIth Jean-Charles Sournia (Paris); in his place scheduled three times a year. Present International Congress for the History of Roger Joris (Nyon, Switzerland) was membership is around seventy-five. Science in Berkeley (see under "Meet­ elected as one of the four vice-presidents. Those interested in receiving more infor­ ings" for the Congress). The newly Marie-Jose Imbault-Huart {Paris) became mation should contact Marc Rothenberg launched SLS Newsletter is described general secretary, replacing Louis Dulieu at the Joseph Henry Papers, S-149, under "Publications!' {Montpeilier) who was engaged in this position for many very valuable years. Other appointees included Garnet-Russell Patterson (Toronto), treasurer, Roger Price (London), assistant secretary, and M. Roussel (Paris), assistant treasurer. Louis Dulieu (Montpellier), Franz-Andre Son­ dervorst (Louvain), Fortier De La ·Bro­ querie {Quebec), and Isidore Simon {Paris) were elected honorary members. Dr. Schadewaldt will organize the next Con­ gress of the History of Medicine in DUs­ seldorf (German Federal Republic) during the week from 31 August-6 September Members of the Columbia History of Science Group on an excursion to Roche HarboL · 1986. Courtesy of Ioella YodeL

Resources for • Alliance of Independent Scholars (6 • The Newberry Library (60 West Walton Independent Scholars Ash Street, Cambridge, MA 02138) is a Street, Chicago, IL 60610) operates a center for intellectual exchange and pro­ variety of intellectual programs, iricluding fessional support, in which the needs of resident fellowships for unaffiliated The organizational descriptions below are women scholars receive special attention. scholars and courses, seminars, and sum­ drawn from R. Gross and B. Gross, Inde­ Members have access to a research forum, mer institutes of its four research centers. pendent Scholarship: Promise, Problems support groups, career counseling, and • Princeton Research Forum (PO. Box and Prospects (New York: College En­ workshops on proposal writing. 497, Princeton, NJ 08540) brings together trance Examination Board, 1983). In addi­ • Basic Choices, Inc. (Blakeman Place, scholars interested in interdisciplinary tion to these organizations, independent 1121 University Avenue, Madison, WI research and sponsors seminars and collo­ scholars' roundtables have sprung up in 53715) focuses on issues of adult educa­ quia for discussing work in progress. cities all over the country. Composed of tion, social change, human rights, and • Rocky Mountain Women's Institute local groups of researchers who meet on a economic equity; conducts discussion {2258 South Josephine Street, Denver.... CO regular basis, roundtables provide a forum groups; sponsors conferences; and pro­ 80208) is located at the University of for exchanging information and ideas and vides members with an institutional Denver and supports the work of five· to discussing work in progress, and may also affiliation. ten associates each year by providing provide information on funding sources, • Center for Independent Study (3193 studio or office space, a small grant, and publishing opportunities, and research Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520) the freedom to pursue scholarly and crea­ procedures. Information on roundtables in provides a forum for intellectual and tive work. various parts of the country can be ob­ creative interchange among independent • University Seminars (606 Dodge Hall, tained from Independent Scholars' scholars and artists, as well as an institu­ Columbia University, New York, NY Roundtables, c/o Independent Scholarship tional affiliation for its members, help in 10027) joins independent scholars with Project, 17 Myrtle Drive, Great Neck, NY seeking grants-in-aid from foundations, academics to discuss topics of mutual 11021. and seminar groups and conferences. interest; approximately eighty seminars • Academy of Independent Scholars {970 • Institute for Research in History {432 meet on a monthly basis. Aurora, Boulder, CO 80309) fosters the Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016) • The Women's Research Institute continued intellectual productivity of is organized around ongoing research {Counseling Center, Hartford College for senior scholars and professionals and groups that focus on specific historical Women, SO Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT provides services to its more than 350 topics or periods. The Institute operates 06105) promotes research on women by members, such as assistance in obtaining four consulting services, which charge providing an institutional affiliation for research funding, publishing monographs, fees, and administers grants made to scholars seeking research funding and a and organizing conferences. individual members. supportive work setting_. April1985 page7

scheduled to be operational in 1992. A New Series is intended to place NASA's POSITIONS Ph.D. in history is required, with demon­ programs in a broad historical context and strated competence in an aerospace­ to address academic as well as educated The Department oi History and Social related historical field. The historian lay audiences. Qualifications include an Studies Education at the State University chosen will be expected to observe and earned doctorate in a relevant discipline College at Buffalo is currently recruiting record the principal activities of the pro­ and successful writing and publishing for a two-year, entry level appointment in gram's office, attend significant meetings, experience. Compensation is negotiable. history beginning in September 1985. A document the principal events and transi­ Proposals, which will he accepted twice specialist in economic history with an tions during Space Station definition and annually (by l January and 1 June, begin­ emphasis on business history and a back­ development, prepare a chronology of ning 1 June 1985), will be funded on the ground in the history of science and tech­ Space Station events, develop a Space basis of individual merit and availability nology is sought; a Ph.D. is required. The Station archive at NASA Headquarters, of funds. For further information contact successful applicant will also teach sur­ and prepare one or more monograph stud­ Sylvia D. Fries at the address and tele­ veys in United States or European history. ies. The historian will also cooperate with phone number listed above. The salary will range from $20,000 to Space Station historical work already under way at the Johnson Space Center. $24,000. Applicants should send a resume APRIL DEADLINES by 1 May 1985 to Momoe Fordham, The primary location of responsibilities Chairman, Department of History and will be NASA Headquarters in Washing­ Social Studies Education, State University ton, D.C., but some travel to key NASA Sarah Lawrence College invites candi­ College at Buffalo, 1300 Elmwood Ave­ Centers involved in Space Station devel­ dates for a one-year, full- or half-time nue, Buffalo, NY 14222; telephone (716) opment will be required. The one-year position teaching science and society or 878-5412. AAI £0£. renewable contract may include allow­ the history of science, with a full- or half­ ance for a research assistant. Potential time three-year appointment possibly to The Department of History at the Univer­ applicants should contact Sylvia D. Fries, follow. Send curricula vitae, descriptions sity of California, Los Angeles, has availa­ Director, NASA History Office, Washing­ of research interests, and outlines of two ble a two-quarter position in the history of ron, DC 20546; telephone (202)453-2999, proposed courses with reading lists to science and technology. Candidates prior to 1 May 1985. Final responses must Charlotte A. Price, Chair of Division III, should be able to teach lower division be received no later than 15 June 1985. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY lecture courses in the history of technol­ AA/EOE. 10708, by 15 April1985; an earlier re­ ogy from antiquity to the twentieth cen­ sponse is encouraged. AA/EOE. The NASA History Office also invites tury, as well as to offer undergraduate and inquiries from historians interested in The Department of the History of Medi­ graduate seminars in some aspect of the writing individual volumes for NASA's cine at the University of Wisconsin­ social history of science or technology. A New Series of historical publications. Madison seeks candidates for a full-time total of four courses will be required. NASA may provide eighteen months to tenure-track faculty position in the his­ Rank is open. Applicants should have the two years of support Jor research and tory of early modem or modern European doctorate and a respectable publication writing and associated expenses to quali­ medicine. An M.D. or a Ph.D. is required. record. Inquiries should be sent to Robert fied historians having well-developed Applicants should submit their dossiers S. Westman, Department of History, proposals for book-length manuscripts. and request that three letters of reference University of California, Los Angeles, CA Appropriate themes include, but are not be sent to Judith W. Leavitt, Chair, De­ 90024 by 1 May 1985. AA/EOE. limited to, historical treatments of a partment of the History of Medicine, 1300 technological, cultural, and political syn­ University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706, The Department of the History of Science thesis of the Apollo program; case studies by 30 April1985. AA / EOE. at Harvard University is conducting a of technological innovation in the search to fill a position in its faculty. United States space program; NASA aero­ Qualifications should include experienced nautical research and development, 1960 teaching in the Scientific Revolution, and The abbreviation "AA/ EOE" has been to the present; industrial and consumer major scholarship within the extended used when the hiring or granting institu­ applications of United States space tech­ period from the Renaissance to 1750. tion has indicated that it is an Affirmative nology; or systems engineering and the Candidates at the junior or senior levels Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer. development of aerospace technology. The should send preliminary inquiries and information before 1 June 1985 to Profes­ sor John E. Murdoch, Chairman of the Search Committee, Department of the History of Science, Science Center 225, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02.138. AA/ EOE.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) History Office Alchemical allegory from Michael Maier's invites applicants for the position of pro­ Atalanta Fugiens gram historian for NASA's Space Station, (1618}. pageS History oC Sdence Society Newsletter

delphia, PA 19104, briefly outlining the The University of Minnesota and the FELLOWSHIPS project and giving their academic status; Bakken Library of Electricity in Life, &GRANTS three referee letters should also be sent to through support from the Minneapolis this address. Application forms will be Foundation, are continuing a joint pro­ sent to those eligible. gram of fellowships aimed at increasing The American Philosophical Society scholarly utilization of the book, periodi­ (APS) will support basic research in all cal, manuscript, and instrument collec­ fields of learning. Grants are intended to The American Society for Cell Biology tions of the library. Research awards for assist investigators by subvening living (ASCB) offers a fellowship in the history 1985 will be available in the following expenses (up to $30 per day), necessary of cell biology to be awarded to a graduate categories: grants-in-aid of research (up to travel, microfilm and photocopies, and student or postgraduate in 1985. The $2,000) for short visits to the library by certain consumable supplies. Grants do award will be $8,000 per annum, renew­ investigators at all levels; a postdoctoral not include salaries, institutional over­ able on an annual basis. Graduate stu­ fellowship ($18,000) for one year for an head, expenses of publications, usual or dents' applications should include their individual who has received the Ph.D. permanent equipment for the institution curricula vitae, descriptions of current degree within the past five years (appli­ involved, predoctoral research or prepara­ graduate program and proposed study cants should submit a research proposal tion of a doctoral dissertation, travel to (including institutional resources), and and a complete curriculum vita for these meetings, or compilation of bibliogra­ supporting letters from their graduate two awards); and a predoctoral fellowship phies. A Ph.D. or its equivalent is re­ program director and project sponsor. ($7,500) for a graduate student who meets quired. The maximum grant amount is Postgraduates should include their curric­ the normal admission requirements of the $3,500 (to full professors, $2,500). The ula vitae, descriptions of present activi­ University of Minnesota's Program in the deadlines for application are the first of ties and proposed study (including History of Science and Technology. The February, April, June, October, and De­ institutional resources), and a letter of deadline for fellowships beginning in cember for written decision by the end of support from a departmental chairperson. September is 15 May 1985. Applications April, June, October, December, and Feb­ Applications should be submitted by 1 or inquiries should be addressed to Roger ruary, respectively. Prospective applicants August 1985 to the History of Cell Biol­ Stuewer, Program in the History of Sci­ should write to the Committee on Re­ ogy Fellowship Program, ASCB, 9650 ence and Technology, School of Physics search, APS, 104 South Fifth Street, Phila- Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814. and Astronomy, 116 Church Street S.E.,

PRIZES original essay on the history of science and its cultural influences by a graduate student. Ida and Henry Schuman, who HIS'IORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY established the prize in 1955, wanted PRIZES "history of science and its cultural influ­ ences" to be interpreted very broadly; The highest honor awarded by the Society papers may deal with the ideas and ac­ for a work of scholarship is the Pfizer complishments of scientists in the past, Prize, which was established in 1958 with the evolution of particular scientific through the generosity of Pfizer Incorpo­ concepts or institutions, or with the his­ rated and consists of a medal and a cash torical influences of one branch of science prize of $2,500. Books or original scholar­ upon another. The phrase "cultural influ­ ship written by American or Canadian ences" is taken to include studies of the authors that deal in a substantial manner social and historical conditions that have with the history of science and were pub­ The Pfizer Award Medal. influenced the development of science lished in the preceding three years (that Courtesy of Pfizer Inc. and studies of the effects of science upon is, in 1982, 1983, and 1984) are eligible for society in the realms of philosophy, reli­ nomination this year. Books by more than aged to nominate books for consideration gion and social thought, art and literature, two authors and unrevised reprints of by sending their suggestions to the chair­ economic development, and so forth. previously published works are excluded man of the 1985 Pfizer Prize Committee, Essays on medical topics are not eligible from consideration. The Pfizer Prize Donald Fleming, 785 Widener Library, unless they deal with the relations be­ Committee will determine the books to Harvard University, Cambridge, MA tween medicine and the natural sciences. be considered by reviewing lists of re­ 02138, by 1 May 1985. Essays must be in English or accompanied cently published books and soliciting by an English translation, should be thor­ nominations from major scholarly pub­ The Society also awards the Schuman oughly documented as well as original, lishers. Members of HSS are also encour- Prize, an annual prize of $250 for the best and must not exceed 8,000 words in April1985 page9

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, N.W., Washington, DC 20506. The dead­ invites applications for a one-year post­ MN 55455; telephone !612) 376-7023. line for the submission of applications is 1 doctoral fellowship on the relationship of AA/EOE. May of each year. Potential applicants technology and society. This fellowship is may write or call (202) 786-0361 for intended for those with doctoral training counsel. in American history with an interest in The National Endowment for the Human­ enhancing or developing their understand­ ities' (NEH) Challenge Grants are de­ ing and research skills in the area of tech­ signed to meet a variety of needs of The Society for the Humanities at Cornell nology and society. Selection criteria nonprofit institutions or organizations University offers six postdoctoral fellow­ include a record of outstanding perfor­ (other than elementary and secondary ships for 1986-1987 to scholars in human­ mance in the field of American history and schools) working within the humanities. istic disciplines working on such topics as a proposal of study and research for the Challenge Grants are made on a matching the relations between humanistic and fellowship year related to social and his­ basis; that is, for each federal dollar of­ scientific inquiry, the study of science as a torical studies of technological develop­ fered, institutions must raise three nonfe­ culturally located activity, and the effect ment and the impact on society, deral dollars from new sources of giving or of scientific and technological advances technology, and the political economy of from increased contributions by existing on central humanistic concepts. The industrial societies, or policy studies donors. All applicants must demonstrate deadline for applications is 1 November involving technology. Applicants should that grant and matching funds will im­ 1985. For information, write Jonathan include a statement of proposed research prove the quality of work v.rithin the Culler, Director, Society for the Humani­ and study of approximately five double­ humanities. A new issue of the Challenge ties, 27 East Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14853- spaced typed pages, a curriculum vita, and Grant Guidelines is available, providing 1101. at least three letters of recommendation. detailed information about program goals, Stipends for the year commencing in eligibility, use of funds, possible sources of September 1985 will be $16,000 plus matching gifts, evaluation criteria, time­ April Deadlines fringe benefits. Address applications by 15 tables, and the preparation of an applica­ April 1985 to Professor Joel A. Tarr, Direc­ tion. For copies, write to Challenge Grant The Carnegie-Mellon University Program tor, Program in Technology and Society, Guidelines, Room 409, Public Affairs in Technology and Society, with support Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Office, NEH, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, PA 15213. AA / EOE.

length, exclusive of footnotes. To com­ FOR THE RECORD which may be made at any time, iri its pete, students must submit by 1 June annual competition for the George Ur­ 1985 four copies of their essay (with au­ dang Medal and the Edward Kremers thor's name and institution placed on a The History Division of the American Award. Both are for distinguished separate page so that they may be re­ Chemical Society and the Dexter Chemi­ pharmaco-historical writing by authors moved) to Frederick Gregory, Chait, His­ cal Corporation have solicited nomina­ who are American citizens (Kremers tory of Science Society Committee on tions for the 1985 Dexter Award, which Award) or by authors from all countries Honors and Prizes, History Department, honors outstanding accomplishment in (Urdang Medal). Nomination forms may GPA 4131, University of Florida, Gaines­ the history of chemistry and consists of be obtained from AlHP, Pharmacy Build­ ville, FL 32611. Entries with postmarks $1,000 and an engraved plaque. It will be ing, University of Wisconsin, Madison, after the deadline will be returned with­ conferred at the fall m eeting of the Ameri­ WI 53706. out reading. The announcement of the can Chemical Society. Nominations for prizewinning essay will be made at the next year, consisting of a cover letter annual meeting of the Society to be held containing an assessment of the contribu­ in Bloomington in October. The winner of tions of the nominee to the field, vita, the prize will be reimbursed for travel to bibliography of publications, and copies of Don't overlook the Midwest American the meeting up to a maximum of $250. It no more than three select publications, if Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies' is hoped, but not assured, that the win­ available, should be forwarded by 1 Janu­ prize for the best paper delivered at its ning essay will merit publication in Isis. ary 1986 to Robert H . Goldsmith, annual meeting, and the T. C. Schneirla Submitted essays cannot be returned, and Secretary-Treasurer: History Division, Research Award, both described under evaluations will remain confidential. The Division of Natural Science, Anne Arun­ "Calls for Papers"; or the invitation for Schuman Prize is not a scholarship. The del Hall201A, St. Mary's College of nominations for the Lawrence Memorial HSS Council voted in October 1983 to Maryland, St. Mary's City, MD 20686. Award, deadline 1 May 1985, in the Janu­ limit eligibility for the prize to graduate ary 1985 N ewsletter, p. 6. students; previous winners of the prize are The American Institute of the History of not eligible to compete again. Pharmacy (A!HP) invites nominations, pate 10 History oC Science Society Newsletter

The fourth annual volume in the new ette, Indiana. Special attractions include CALLS FOR PAPERS series History of Anthropology, pub­ an excursion to the Feast of the Hunter's lished by the University of Wisconsin Moon, a two-day celebration recreating Press and edited by George W. Stocking, the annual gatherings of French traders Jr., will be devoted to "Anthropology and local Indian tribes during the eight­ Between Two World Wars: 1914-1945." eenth century. Individuals proposing Articles on any subdisciplinary field of panels or wishing to give a paper should anthropology, including applied, archeo­ send proposals, abstracts, or papers to logical, biological, linguistic and sociocul­ William H. Epstein, Department of En­ tural anthropology, as well as articles of glish, Purdue University, West Lafayette, general anthropological interest, are wel­ IN 47907, as soon as possible but no later comed. Topics may be focused biographi­ than 1 May 1985. Panel organizers are cally, institutionally, conceptually, encouraged but not required to consider methodologically, within one national alternative modes of presentation, such as anthropological tradition, or bridging round-table discussions, debates, respon­ between them. Authors are encouraged to dents, and so forth. The Society offers a consider topics in relation to specific $150 prize for the best paper delivered at bodies of documentary material, as well its annual meeting by a nonplenary as to general historical and cultural speaker. The paper must be submitted in trends, including the impact of the two advance and the decision is made by the wars. The deadline for completed manu­ conference program committee. scripts is 31 August 1985; potential con­ tributors are encouraged to communicate The 1\velfth Annual Saint Louis Confer­ with the editor about their work before ence on Manuscript Studies will be held The Association for Social Economics submitting drafts. All communications at St. Louis University on 11-12 October invites proposals for papers for its annual should be addressed to George W. Stock­ 1985. An invitation has been extended for meeting, to be held 28-30 December 1985 ing, Jr., Department of Anthropology, papers dealing with one of the four follow­ in New York City. The theme for the University of Chicago, 1126 East Fifty­ ing aspects of the manuscript: codicology, sessions will be "Economics in Interdisci­ Ninth Street, Chicago, IL 60637. illumination, paleography, and texts. plinary Perspective." For more informa­ Those wishing to participate should re­ tion, contact Daniel Rush Finn, Purdue University will host the next quest additional information from the Department of Economics and Business annual meeting of the Midwest American Conference Committee, Vatican Film Administration, St. John's University, Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies to Library, Pius Xll Memorial Library, 3655 Collegeville, MN 56321. be held 3-5 October 1985 in West Lafay- West Pine Plaza, St. Louis, MO 63108.

Appointments, Promotions, working with the University's Humani­ this year's Wolf Fellowship, awarded by ties Council to coordinate humanities the Israel Academy of Sciences and Hu­ &.Awards outreach to NYU's medical and dental manities, for his project on the entry of schools. Jews into the scientific profession, 1850- 1950.

Thomas Horrocks has been appointed W. Clarke Ridgway of the University of Head of the Historical Department of the West Virginia has been selected for the Ruth Schwartz Cowan won the 1984 Library of the College of Physicians of 1985-1986 American Institute of the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History Philadelphia. He received an undergradu­ History of Pharmacy's Teaching Improve­ of Technology for her book More Work for ate degree in history from Villanova Uni­ ment Award, related to a course in phar­ Mother: The Ironies of Household Tech­ versity and has a master's degree in library maceutical history. He will utilize the nology from the Open Hearth to the Mi­ science from Drexel University. For the matching grant ($15,000) for a year in crowave (New York: Basic Books, 1983). past year, he has been working on the residence at the University of Wisconsin­ history of the College's second century. Madison. John Earman has been appointed Professor in the Department of History and Philoso­ Margaret C. Jacob has been appointed Gary Werskey of the Department of Social phy of Science of the University of Pitts­ University Professor of History at the and Economic Studies at Imperial Col­ burgh. New School for Social Research and Dean lege, London, has been appointed Visiting of its Eugene Lang College. Fellow in the School of History and Phi­ Bert Hansen has been appointed Assistant losophy of Science at the University of Professor in the Department of History at Yakov M. Rabkin, historian of science at New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, from New York University. He will also be the University of Montreal, has received February to June 1985. Aprill985 page 11

Papers on the topics of the evolution of ment of the general theme as well as an fellner, University of Nebraska, social behavior, concept of integrative abstract and curriculum vita for each Department of Philosophy, Lincoln, Ne­ levels, or the relation between the two, participant. Please send four copies to braska 68508. The deadline for receipt of are invited by the organizing committee Susan J. Douglas, School of Communica­ abstracts is 15 June 1985. Official lan­ of the Third T. C. Schneirla Conference, tions, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA guages will be English and German. to be held on 7-9 November 1985 at the 01002; telephone (413) 549-4600 exten­ Those planning to attend the conference American Museum of Natural History sion 559. should contact Dr. Hubner at the above (AMNH) in New York City. Scheduled address for further information as soon as speakers include Stephen Jay Gould and The Austrian Wittgenstein Society an­ possible. Conference fees will be 1,200 B. F. Skinner (Harvard University), and nounces the Thnth International Wittgen­ Austrian schillings for nonstudents and Sarah J. Hrdy (Yale University). Ten papers stein Symposium to be held 18-25 August 400 Austrian schillings for students. will be accepted for presentation at the 1985 in Kirchberg/Wechsel (Lower Aus­ conference and publication in the Confer­ tria, near Vienna). The theme of this ence Proceedings (Volume ill). Papers year's symposium will be "The Tasks of should be 3,000 words or less and may Contemporary Philosop.\ly." Sections are Don't overlook the following call for include only two graphs, tables, or illus­ planned on, among other topics, philoso­ papers in the January 1985 Newsletter, pp. trations. One of these papers will be phy as the foundation and methodology of 9-10: the i9int meeting of the Australa­ awarded the T. C. Schneirla Research the sciences and humanities, and on sian Association for the History, Philoso­ Award of $250. Submit manuscripts by 1 moral responsibility for human beings and phy and Social Studies of Science and the July 1985 to Ethel Tobach, Department of the environment in science and technol­ Australasian Association of Philosophy at Mammalogy, AMNH, Central Park West ogy. Scholars wishing to present a paper the University of New South Wales, 25- at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024. should request an abstract style sheet 31 August 1985, deadlines of 1 May and from either the President of the Society, 15 June 1985. Adolf Hubner, Markt 234, A-2880 Kirch­ The Program Committee of the Society berg am Wechsel/Austria, or Werner Lein- for the History of Thchnology (SHOT) calls for session and paper prososals for its annual meeting, which will take place in Dearborn, Michigan, F-19 October 1985. A diverse and well-balanced program is sought and participants are invited to address topics which have received rela­ tively little attention at recent meetings. To Keep Your Announcements Timely Contributions are particularly welcomed in the areas of non-Western technology, technology transfer and its effects on recipient cultures, preindustrial technol­ ogy, material culture, technology and Events taking Should appear To expedite capitalism, and computers and the new place in or with in the Deadline for Deadline for inclusion, send communications technologies, as are deadlines in Newsletter for short copy long copy prior notice by interdisciplinary proposals concerning the role of workers, women, blacks, and other minorities in technical development or which analyze the organizational context May, in which technical change has occurred. It june, April March 10 March I February 15 is hoped that at least one session or panel July discussion will focus on recent theoretical and methodological approaches in the history of technology, such as innovation August, theory, technology as knowledge, or the September, july June 10 june 1 May 15 systems concept. Both works-in-progress October sessions and sessions sponsored by SHOT's special interest groups (Jovians, Pelicans, TEMSIG, TS&E, and WITH) are November, planned, and these groups are encouraged December, October September 10 September 1 August 15 to submit proposals. Preference will be january given to individuals who have not made presentations in recent years. The dead­ line is 1 May 1985. Individual proposals February. must include a 150-word abstract of the March, January December 10 December 1 November 15 paper and a one-page curriculum vita. April Session proposals should include a state- page 12 History of Science Society Newsletter

Call for Photos Announcement from the Committee on Publications

The HSS Newsletter staff invites At the December meeting of the HSS volumes are composed of articles of stand­ members to contribute pictures of Council, the need to provide a fuller de­ ard length. The second category follows themselves and other historians of science scription of the roles of the Society's vari­ the tradition of the original series of engaged in professional activities such as ous publications was discussed. In George Sarton's Osiris (1936-1963). Vol­ meetings, colloquia, workshops, exhibits, response, the Committee on Publications umes in this category are made up of demonstrations of equipment, teaching, has prepared the following statement. major articles that explore an eclectic and research. Please send your The History of Science Society sponsors diversity of subjects on the same level of photographs directly to the Publications four categories of publication, as follows. scholarly excellence but in greater depth Office, History of Science Society, 215 • Isis: An International Review De­ than is possible in the pages of Isis. South 34th Street/D6, Philadelphia, PA voted to the History of Science and Its • The Newsletter of the History of 19104. Photographs will be returned if not Cultural Influences. The official journal Science Society. Published quarterly, the run within a year. of the Society, Isis publishes scholarly Newsletter serves as the main medium materials in eight categories: editorials for items of professional concern to histo­ and guest editorials; research articles of rians of science. The Newsletter carries From the Annual Meeting standard length; critical or synthetic notices of forthcoming conferences; em­ essays on particular subfields; documents ployment opportunities; grants andre­ and translations; brief research notes and search projects; Society committees, correspondence; news of the profession; meetings, and elections; and books re­ book reviews; and bibliography. Isis is ceived by Isis. Often a brief lead story will published five times a year, and member­ focus on an event or trend of importance ship in the History of Science Society to the history of science community. includes a subscription to Isis. • Occasional Publications. The His­ • Osiris: A Research fournal Devoted tory of Science Society is developing a to the History of Science and Its Cui· series of occasional publications to serve a tural Influences. An annual journal, variety of needs. It is expected that these Osiris publishes material in two catego­ publications will include resource letters ries. The one category consists of guest­ for teachers and bibliographies, as well as edited volumes devoted to a single theme such items as the Isis Guide to the His­ or topic of wide interest to the history of tory of Science and the Isis Cumulative Joe Burchfield science community. These guest-edited Index.

OSIRIS The first two volumes of the new series John Servos "History of Chemistry" of Osiris are now in press. Their contents Jane Maienschein "History of Biology" A Research Journal Devoted to the are as follows: Albert Moyer "History of Physics" History of Science and its Cultural Hamilton Cravens "History of Social Influences VOLUME 1: HIS1DRICAL WRITING ON Science" AMERICAN SCIENCE: PERSPECTIVES AND PROSPECTS Newer Areas Clara Sue Kidwell "Native Knowledge in The second series of Osiris is under the Edited by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and the Americas" direction of a distinguished board of con­ Margaret Rossiter George Wise "Science and Thchnology" tributing editors consisting of Gerald L. Alex Roland "Science and War" Geison (Princeton University), Thomas L. Classic Themes Margaret Rossiter "Science and Public Hankins (University of Washington), Sally Gregory Kohlstedt "Institutional Policy Since World War II" Frederic L. Holmes (Yale University), History" David C. Lindberg (University of Wiscon­ John Harley Warner "Science in Medi­ Access to Sources sin), and Margaret Rossiter (American cine" Clark A. Elliott "Bibliographies, Refer­ Academy of Arts and Sciences). Interested Ronald L. Numbers "Science and Reli­ ence Works, and Archives" authors are invited to correspond with the gion" contributing editor in their field of inter­ Sharon Gibbs Thibodeau "Science in the VOLUME II est, or if they are uncertain to whom to Federal Government" write, they may address themselves to David Lindberg "Kepler's Optics and the Arnold Thackray, the editor of Osiris, at Science in Specialties Neoplatonic Tradition" 215 South 34th Street/D6, Philadelphia, Mott Greene "History of Geology" W. R. Laird "Renaissance Commentaries PA 19104. Marc Rothenberg "History of Astronomy" on the Mechanical Problems" Apri11985 page 13

The Committee's clarification comes "was," as determined from such things as question, and that might be even worse­ none too soon, as is evident from the the bias of the historian, the availability "0, sir, is." I sincerely hope that this docs letter printed below, which came to our and the premise of significant primary not refer to history's having traditionally attention through the kind offices of Jane sources, and the social context in which been written by males. Mork Gibson, one oi Clio's handmaidens the material is presented. In many cases I congratulate you on your noble efforts in Philadelphia. this has resulted in endless theories on to make good historical studies available the "was-ness" of "is," sometimes even to a large group of scholars. I trust that introducing the problem of "may-have­ your strong statement about Isis (sic) will ISIS&.. OSIRIS: What's in a name? been-ness." However, you have beauti­ not be weakened or diminished by any fully handled the issue by naming your questions of Osiris (sic). Dear Sir: journal. "Is is." It appears to me that you may not be so With warmest wishes for success, It has long been in my thoughts to write fortunate with your new journal, and I concerning the title of your journal Isis, foresee that problems may arise with the CLIO and I am now prompted to do so on the naming of Osiris. Here, again, you have occasion of the proposed appearance of omitted the spacing, so I have concluded your new journal, Osiris. The naming of that this is a twentieth-century custom, Isis was a superb choice, but I fear that and you evidently plan to omit punctua­ you may have some difficulty with the tion. The name suggests that you now title Osiris, considering revisionist history have some doubt about "is-ness." Also, and the rise of feminism. considering the climate of the times, I am Isis is an entirely appropriate name for at a loss as to why you have chosen what the journal of the History of Science Soci­ might be thought a sexist title for this ety, although I have never understood journal. Arc you seeking responses from why you continue to omit the space be­ men historians only by asking, "0, sir, tWeen the two words and run them to­ is1" You have further confused the gether. Perhaps it is the printer's desire to situation-perhaps in an effort to balance conserve space, or some system of short­ the title-by engaging two women histo­ hand. I have always felt that the simple rians as guest editors. This may give rise statement that "Is is" was a satisfactory to your readers' wondering if these editors one for all historians, and you were wise are asking to be informed by men about not to stir up any controversy. There has the reality of "is-ness." Of course, it may been so much discussion about what also be a simple statement instead of a

Pierre Kerszberg "The Cosmological Archives holdings of the papers of Alfred Adler, Question in Newton's Science" Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud, and others David P. Miller "The Revival of the Physi­ in the history of science. The pamphlet is cal Sciences in Britain, 1815-1840" available free upon request from the Li­ Ernst Mayr "Joseph Gottlieb Kolreuter's The Hagley Museum and Library has brary of Congress, Manuscripts Division, Contribution to Biology" recently opened two collections for re­ Washington, DC 20540. James Reardon-Anderson "Chemical search: the records of the Bank of Dela­ Industry in China, 1860- 1949" ware, 1812- 1960 (117 linear feet); and the McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachu­ Garland E. Allen "The Eugenics Record records of the Philadelphia Quartz Com­ setts, announces the availability of its Office, Cold Spring Harbor, 1910-1940" pany, manufacturer of soap, candles, Guide to the Archives of the McLean Silvan Schwcber "The Emergence of detergents, and industrial silicates, 1831- Hospital Corporation (1984). The result of American Quantum Electrodynamics 1960 (40 linear feet) . For further informa­ an initial grant in 1981 in the amount of after World War ll" tion, contact the Research and Reference $20,730 awarded by the National Histori­ Susan Wright "Recombinant DNA Tech­ Department, Hagley Museum and Li­ cal Publications and Records Commis­ nology and the Social Transformation of brary, P.O. Box 3630, Wilmington, DE; sion, the Guide includes an archival Molecular Biology" telephone (302) 658-2400. policy statement; a brief history and chro­ nology of the institution and its nursing The papers of Robert C. Cook, president school; a listing of administrative, fiscal, Full details on publication dates of the of the Population Reference Bureau in the legal, and patient records; and a list of the first two volumes of the new series of late 1950s, are among the papers de­ institution's fine arts holdings. To obtain a Osiris, together with special prepublica­ scribed in the recently published Library copy, send $6.50, plus 75 cents for ship­ tion prices for History of Science Society of Congress Acquisitions: Manuscript ping and handling, to Terry A. Bragg, members, will be announced in the July Division, 1983. The fifty-five-page illus­ Archivist, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill issue of the HSS N ewsletter. trated report also catalogues additions to Street, Belmont, MA 021 78 . page 14 History of Science Society Newsletter

A symposium will be held 10 June 1985 "Philosophy Now" (Jerusalem, 6 June). MEETINGS on the occasion of the inauguration of the For further information, contact the Col­ Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the His­ loquium Coordinator, Edna Margalit, tory and Philosophy of Science, Technol­ P.O.B. 4070, Jerusalem, Israel. 1985 HSS Annual Meeting at ogy, and Medicine of the Hebrew Indiana University-Preliminary University of Jerusalem. Participants will A conference entitled "Reflections on the Report on Transportation and include the founder of the Center, Sidney Technologies in the Spirit of Humanism: Accommodations M. Edelstein, Allen G. Debus, Gerald Being, Thinking and Social Responsibili­ Holton, Timothy Lenoir, and Arnold ties" will be held at the State University Many air fares are currently very competi­ Thackray from the United States, and of New York at Farmingdale (SUNY Far­ tive. Recently, for instance, it was possi­ Mara Beller, Joseph Ben-David, and mingdale) on 3 May 1985. Speakers in­ ble to get to Indianapolis from the New Yehuda Elkana from Israel. clude John Truxal (SUNY Stony Brook!, York City area for $I38 round-trip. Most Anthanasios Papoulis (Polytechnic Insti­ airlines have a policy of honoring current Great Medical History Libraries of Brit­ tute of New York) Lois Kellerman (Ethical prices if tickets are purchased in advance. ain, a conference and tour for librarians, Culture Society of Queens), Mildred Most people will find it least expensive to historians, bibliophiles, and others inter­ Lowe (St. John's University), Sheldon fly into Indianapolis. There is air service ested in books, history of medicine, and Reaven (SUNY Stony Brook), Dashimir to Bloomington from Indianapolis, but libraries, will be held 2-9 June 1985. Petrcla (SUNY Farmingdale), and Julie bus service will be less expensive and, it Visits to the Wellcome Library and Royal Wosk (SUNY Maritime). For further infor­ is hoped, equally convenient; see below. Society of Medicine Library in London, mation, contact the coordinators and There is also air service by Britt from the Chelsea Physick Garden, and to his­ grantees, Charlotte Scharf and Carol Chicago to Bloomington. A limited num­ toric sites in Oxford and Cambridge arc Greenholz, Greenley Hall, SUNY Far­ ber of seats are currently available at $98 planned. Further in£ormation is available mingdale, Farmingdale, NY II735; tele­ round-trip. When they are gone, remain­ from Nicholas Dewey, I9 Great Ormond phone (5I6) 420-2402 or 420-2205. ing seats will be available at the special Street, London, WC1N 3JB, England, or rate of $114 round-trip to those who book from Janet Kubinec, Columbia University On 11 May 1985 the Society for Industrial directly with Britt and identify themsel­ Health Sciences Library, 701 West 168th Archaeology meets in Newark, New Jersey, ves as members of HSS. Street, New York, NY 10032; telephone to dis.cuss "The Wonder of Work: Industry, Bus transport from the airports will be (2I2) 694-7931. Labor, and Process in An1erican Art, arranged for those who make reservations I800-I940." For information, contact with the Local Arrangements Committee On 7 October 1985 the Hagley Museum Betsy Fahlman, Department of Art, Old at least a week in advance. The cost will and Library, aided by a grant from E. I. du Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23508. be $I2 round-trip for the fifty-five miles Pont de Nemours&. Co., will present from Indianapolis and $3 round-trip from "The R & D Pioneers: A Critical Look at The XVllth International Congress of the Bloomington Airport. General Electric, DuPont, AT&T Bell Rooms at the Indiana Memorial Union History of Science, to be held this sum­ Laboratories, and Eastman Kodak, I900- mer at the University of California, will be about $38 for a single and $45 for a I985." Issues of research management double. Reservation requests should be Berkeley, 31 July-8 August, will open will be addressed in papers by David with a keynote address by Thomas S. c~ddressed to IMU Housing, Indiana Uni­ Hounshell (University of Delaware), Kuhn and will include a wide variety of versity, Bloomington, IN 47405. Some George Wise (General Electric Company), less expensive accommodations will be scientific sections as well as special sym­ John K. Smith (Hagley Museum and Li­ posia. The following themes will be ad­ available for graduate students on a first­ brary), Neil H. Wasserman (Harvard Busi­ come, first-served basis through Victor E. dressed: science and technology in the ness School), Jeffrey L. Sturchio (Center Middle Ages; technology training and Thoren, Local Arrangements Committee, for History of Chemistry), and RichardS. Department of History and Philosophy of education: national comparisons; genetics Rosenbloom (Harvard Business School). and society; women in science: options Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, For more information and registration IN 47401; telephone (81 2) 335-3622. and access; government, industry, and the materials, contact Hagley R & D Pioneers growth of cooperative research; cross­ Conference, at the same address and cultural exchanges of natural knowledge telephone number as above. and their social implications; understand­ ------The Fourth Annual Series of the Israel ing and uses of nature in native cultures; Colloquium for the History, Philosophy, Western science in the Pacific Basin; earth and Sociology of Science continues science in the nineteenth and twentieth Don't overlook the International Sympo­ through June I985. On I6 May a sympo­ centuries; science, literature, and the sium on Particle Physics in the 1950s: sium, '"The Other Newton'- The Theo­ imagination; historical sociology of sci­ Pions to Quarks in Batavia, Illinois, 1- + logical and Alchemical Writings," will be ence; scientific instruments; publications; May 1985, announced in the January 1985 held in Jerusalem at which Betty Jo Dobbs history of science: methodology and phi­ Newsletter on p. 1I. (Northwestern University) and RichardS. losophies; social and human sciences; Westfall (University of Wisconsin) will science and religion; contexts of techno­ present papers. Other upcoming topics logical change; transmission of mathe­ and dates include "Nature and Science in matical sciences; documentation; ------the Renaissance" (Tel-Aviv, 2I May), and historical metrology; and science policy April 1985 page 15

studies. The Congress ·rill also offer ex­ (15 May), Christopher Lawrence (29 enccs and noted the originality, or lack hibits by publishers and book dealers of May), and W. F. Bynum (12 June). Meet­ thereof, of Arab sciences compared with material of interest to historians of sci­ ings are held Wednesdays, 5:30-7:00 p.m . Greek. Among the participants were John ence and technology and displays by com­ The Wellcome Institute will also sponsor Murdoch and A. M. Sabra (Harvard Uni­ puter manufacturers of new a symposium on the history of medicine, versity), George Saliba (Columbia Univer­ word-processing equipment. Several so­ "Plague in Early Modem Europe;• on 26 sity), David King (New York University), cial events are planned, including Califor­ Aprill985, with papers by Edward Eckert, A. Yusuf al-Hasan [University of Toronto), nia wine tasting and receptions (one John Henderson, Paul Slack, William George Anawati [University of Cairo), sponsored by HSSJ a special visit to the Schupbach, Richard Palmer, John Alexan­ Roshdi Rashed (University of Paris), and San Francisco Exploratorium, a final din­ der, and Peregrine Horden. An exhibition Albert Iskandar and Antoine Zahlan (Uni­ ner in the Greek theater. and tours to entitled "The Pest Anatomized: Five versity of London). local attractions. Rosalvn Moss 'llavel Centuries of Plague in Western Europe" Consultants (RMTC has been designated will be open at the Institute 4 March-24 APRIL MEETINGS as travel coordinator and has negotiated May 1985. For more information on the special fares (cheaper than regulm fares) seminar and symposium, contact Ms. F. The Committee on the History and Phi­ on domestic flights for participants travel­ Houser, The Wellcome Institute for the losophy of Science at the University of ing round-trip from their home cities to History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, Colorado;. Boulder, will hold the Ninth San Francisco. These are scheduled London NW1 2BP. Regional Conference on the History and flights, not charters. Check with your Philosophy of Science, devoted to the local travel agent for other types of dis­ The University of Wisconsin-Extension theme of "Artificial Intelligence;' during count fares.) Discount rates for car rentals will be holding a workshop, "Sherlock 25-27 April1985. Clark Glymour (Uni­ and special fares to participants traveling Holmes: Science and Literature," on 20- versity of Pittsburgh) will discuss "Artifi­ from abroad via Pan Am World Airways 21 July 1985. The session on science will cial Intelligence and Rational Social and TWA may be available. Contact be concerned with the role of Victorian Policy.. and additional papers on the RMTC directly at 100 North Village Ave­ science in the stories and as background theme topic and other aspects of the his­ nue, Rockville Centre, NY 11570; tele­ to the character of Sherlock Holmes, tory and philosophy of science will be phone toll free (800}645-3437 outside specifically in the areas of medical educa­ presented. For further information, con­ New York, or (516}536--3076 in New tion and mathematics. Further details and tact University of Colorado, Boulder, York. The deadline for receipt of payment an exact program can be obtained from Committee on the History and Philoso­ for accommodations and tours is 1 June Thomas Drucker, Department of Liberal phy of Science, Campus Box 390, Boulder, 1985. Reservations should be made as Studies- Mathematics, University of CO 80309; telephone Allan Franklin or soon as possible. For registration materi­ Wisconsin-Extension, Madison, WI Marian Safran at [303) 492-8610 or Ho­ als or information, write promptly to the 53703. ward Smokier at (303) 492-7610. Congress Secretariat, Office for History of Science and Technology, University of A conference on historical and industrial California, Berkeley, CA 94720; telephone FOR THE RECORD archaeology is to be held at the Hagley (4151 642-8019. Museum and Library, Wilmington, Dela­ The Library of Congress Near East Section ware, on 26 April1985, entitled "Evolving The Wellcome Institute for the History of held a conference on the history of Arab Archaeological Approaches to 19th Cen­ Medicine continues its ongoing research sciences entitled "Innovation and Tradi­ tury Industrial Communities." Talks by seminar, "History of Medicine in Lon­ tion in Arab Sciences" on 14- 15 March EdwardS. Rutsch [Historic Conservation don." Upcoming speakers include Ger­ 1985. The conference dealt with the rela­ and Interpretation, Inc.) and Anthony trude Prescott (1 May), Martin Daunton tionship between Greek and Arab sci- Wallace (University of Pennsylvania) will

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be featured. David Ames (University of Delaware) will chair the conference and David Orr (National Park Service) will THE ISIS CUMULATIVE INDEX, 1953-1982 comment. Preceding the conference, Robert Howard (Hagley Museum) will conduct a tour of the Hagley industrial THE ISIS CUMULATIVE INDEX, which covers Volumes 44-73 of Isis ( 1953-1982), is site emphasizing the development and now available. use of water power. At a luncheon Frank TinS INVALUABlE COMPLEMENT to your regular subscription to Isis puts at your McKelvey (Hagley Museum) will speak fmgertips the fruits of thirty years of scholarship, debate, and evaluation in the on the archaeological contribution to site discipline of history of science. interpretation. For details, contact the Hagley Center for Advanced Study, Box THE ISIS CUMULATIVE INDEX provides 3630, Greenville, Wilmington, DE 19807; telephone (302) 658-2400, extension 236. • Your instant guide to nearly 4,000 authoritative book reviews (all books reviewed in Isis, 1953-1982, listed alphabetically by author). An International Seminar on Jaina Mathe· • A detailed index by author and subject of all articles, doctunents, and notes in Isis, matics and Cosmology is to be held in 1953-1982. Among the topics available through the subject index are the following: Hastinapur, India, 26-28 Aprill985. The Alchemy Humanistic relations of science seminar was organized by the Digambera Archives and collections of source materials Medicine and medical sciences Jaina Institute of Cosmographic Research, Astronomy Military science and technology Hastinapur (Meerut), and Meerut Univer­ Bibliographies and catalogues Patronage of science sity. For further information, contact Computer sciences and artifidal intelligence Physics Anupam Jain, Organizing Secretary (Semi­ Documents and translations Quantification in science nar), Department of Mathematics, Gov­ Evolution and heredity Technology ernment Degree College, Biaora (Rajgarh), Historiography and historical method Women in science M.P.-465 674 (India).

The twenty-first annual meeting of the THE ISIS CUMULAIWE INDEX is available at the special (members only) price or only Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of $10 postpaid. Biology and Medicine will be held at the Or call 1DLL-FREE, for orders only University of Toronto on 19-20 April ORDER YOUR COPY NOW! l-800-341-1522 1985. The meeting will include an infor­ DATATEL-800'" Weekdays 6 a.rn.-9 p.m. EST mal reception, presentation of papers, and a dinner. Graduate students may board with fellow Toronto graduate students. ------· The conference hotel rate is CDN $75 SEND TO (approximately US $60) for one night or Isis Index CDN $70 (US $56) for each of two nights, 215 S. 34th Street/D6 double or single. For further information, IIIII Philadelphia, PA 19104 contact the seminar host, Polly Winsor, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Please send me copies of the Isis Cumulative Index, /953-1982, at the Science and Technology, Victoria·College, special prepublication rate for members of S 10. (This offer expires 30 June 1985.) University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada MSS 1K7. I PREFER 1D PAY AS FOLLOWS:

The Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History __ Check enclosed, payable to the History of Science Society of the Physical Sciences will be held at Princeton University 26-27 Aprill985. __ Bill me (copies sent on receipt of payment) The conference will consist of a session entitled "The Evidence of Things: Labora­ _ _ Charge my VISA/MasterCard No. ______Expiration date ____ tories, Instruments, and Machines," with papers by Peter Galison (Stanford and Princeton), Michael Mahoney (Princeton), SIGNATURE and Sharon Traweek (MIT), along with other papers on the history of the modem physical sciences. Graduate student par­ ticipation is especially welcomed. For ADDRESS registration forms, programs, and infor­ mation on accommodations, contact Lorraine Daston, Program in History of OTY STATE ZIP Science, 220 Palmer Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544. April 1985 page 17

Continued from page 1 erations was devoted to a discussion of initial phase of start-up with specially how to find $50 for a Committee on raised funds the activity will be self-sus­ ence and science policy to where they are Women in the History of Science. It was taining, with a break-even budget in the today. We recognize that many of the clear to me that a review of the total set of longrun. policies and practices that are in place Society activities and their budget impli­ • Isis. As long as our finances were so today are based on developments in our cations was needed. The next Council precarious, there always was a danger that national history. . . . Proposals for new meeting voted the start of such a program, our main journal, Isis, might meet the initiatives, new directions, or new em­ including a fund drive. After a survey of fate of Osiris before its recent resurrec­ phases to be included in future science the needs expressed by each Standing tion. This fear has now been laid to rest policies will be more effective and more Committee, a three-year plan for renewal once and for all thanks to Dr. Bern Dib­ likely to succeed if they are shaped and funding of the Society's programs was ner's generous pledge of $250,000, to be a against a background that includes an submitted to the National Endowment for special part of the permanent endow­ understanding of the forces and factors the Humanities in 1982. In early March ment, ·its income earmarked for the sup­ that shaped past policy developments. To 1983 we received the good news of the port of the journal. As a result, new things achieve this the Task Force recommends NEH Challenge Grant award. Within a become possible in Isis, such as the com­ that the Science Policy Study commission few weeks the three-to-one match of missioning of major survey reviews in a history of American science and U.S. NEH's $80,000 was obtained, thanks to relatively new fields. science policy [over the last 100 years)!' the quick and farsighted action by the • The long-awaited Cumulative Index to The new Director of NSF agrees that Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the publications in Isis during the past thirty the challenges before the United States Culpeper Foundation, and the Lounsbery years is now in press, and will be released today require the study of "the proper role Foundation. We now had the initial finan­ in April1985. of science and technology," and the Con­ cial and moral support we needed, as well • Publications of the Committee on sortium of Social Science Associations as added credibility to other potential Education. The first few "Resource Let­ says simply that the history of science "is donors. What lay ahead was to find long­ ters" have been commissioned. Other not only a growth stock intellectually but range funding for new and old programs, publications are being planned. has the distinctive role of helping to keep and to begin the hard search for an ade­ • The Newsletter. The improvement in quate endowment for the Society to stabi­ all the sciences self-critical!' format and coverage (including listing of To add just one more illustration of our lize its future. job opportunities, fellowships, etc.) has expanding outreach, the local planning for On the model of many other organiza­ been widely noted and well received. the 1984 annual meeting was undertaken tions, we put together an organization of • Computerization of our publications, most successfully with the cooperation of "Friends of the History of Science," led by including the Cumulative Bibliography, is the centenarian American Historical a distinguished Council of Friends. Our now well advanced. Association, whose Executive Director, own members began to participate in • Proper support of the Managing Editor. Ambassador Samuel Gammon, noted in ever-increasing numbers, both in the fund Most of this Society's work, as in any our joint program booklet IP- 101): "It has drive and in the detailed planning and other scholarly society, is done by unpaid been a model of cooperative endeavor; execution of the specific programs. volunteers. This is as it should be. But for more importantly, both sides are infused The following brief summary of the some tasks there must be a decent com­ with a desire to promote a closer relation­ additions made during the past two or pensation for the essential professional ship between the two societies!' three years to the Society's total program work. This has now become possible in My own role in this recent resurgence may be seen not only as part of an ac­ the case of our only paid full-time profes­ of expectations and challenges for the count of stewardship but as your check­ sional, on whom the increasing flow of history of science has been, in the first list, both for selecting some tasks for publications depends. place, to bet on the inevitability of its yourself and for monitoring what progress happening. Since becoming Vice Presi­ the Society makes along these lines in the dent, I simply have continued to push near future. Other Society services, chiefly in aid of hard, occasion by occasion, and essen­ the career development of younger scholars tially day by day, for decisions that would New programs for the advancement of allow our Society to increase the scale and research and scholarship through publica­ • fob faiL At the annual meeting in professionalism of its operations, and so tions of the Society 1983, we began a job fair and a workshop to take better advantage of the higher on jobs outside academe. I hope that level of opportunities that were bound to • Osiris. If only because of the increasing eventually we will also have a "hot line" come increasingly our way. size of the profession, it was essential to service for listing new openings. An event that helped me focus on how reestablish the publication of this annual • Small grants and loans. Young scholars to fulfill the task occurred at the Toronto volume, to include long essays, mono­ near the beginning of their careers form annual meeting in 1980. Sitting in on the graphs, bibliographies, thematic issues. I the largest and most vulnerable part of meeting of the Council of the Society am happy to say that thanks to the labors our membership. We need a revolving after having been elected but not yet of our Editor and the guest-editors he loan fund or small grants fund, to support having taken office, I found to my aston­ appointed, the first two volumes are first publications and to help "unaffili­ ishment that the programs and finances of scheduled to be published during 1985. As ated" scholars or those between employ­ the Society were so tightly circumscribed in all our new ventures, careful planning ment to continue research and writing that a long segment of the Council's delib- has gone into making sure that after the projects, or just to travel to job interviews. page 18 History oC Science Society Newsletter

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HSS Executive Committee Meets

The HSS Executive Committee met in Philadelphia on President) and Spencer Weart (Treasurer), and (right) Ed Grant, 14 December 1984, to review the agenda for the annual meeting. Audrey Davis, Gerald Holton (thirty-third President), and Frederic Shown above are (left) Audrey Davis (Secretary) and Joe Dauben L. Holmes (thirty-second President, observing). (Coordinator of Programs), (center) Ed Grant (thirty-fourth April 1985 page 19

The Society is fortunate to have received fifteen years, so that it has reached one PUBliCATIONS foundation support for the first year of an quarter of the level that existed in 1966, initial five-year period, and ground rules even though the membership in the pro­ are being drafted. fession has more than doubled. A drastic These eighteen new initiatives repre­ reversal of this policy is needed-if only The American Studies Association (ASA) sent an ambitious and extensive transfor­ because it has caused many in the last publishes American Studies Research mation, one that calls for more energy decade or two to think too small for fear in Progress, a yearly checklist of schol­ and ideas being brought to bear on our of being turned down, not daring to arly books and dissertations that appears affairs than ever before. You now see why mount enough of the larger, high-quality in the bibliography issue of the American I said earlier that my main message today projects that characterized the 1960s (e.g., Quarterly. Authors of book-length Ameri­ is that each of our members should get Dictionary of Scientific Biography, can studies manuscripts and doctoral involved-not only to take advantage of Sources for the History of Quantum Phys­ works that will still be "in progress" in the Society's new programs, but equally ics). August 1985 are encouraged to submit to produce materials like resource letters, Another threat is "intellectual splinter­ information in the following order: name or to be available to referee a grant re­ ing;'· to use Philip Curtin's phrase in his of author, address, telephone number, title quest, or to be a visiting lecturer on a presidential address to the AHA last year. I of book or dissertation, departmental and mission to the unenlightened, and cer­ see some early evidence of potential university affiliation, and projected date of tainly to participate in raising the Endow­ fragmentation in the HSS as subspecialty completimi Entries are accepted at any ment Fund, without which the groups form, produce their own publica­ time but must be received by 1 June 1985 administration of a mature Society's full tions, and begin to think of themselves as for inclusion in the 1985-1986 listing in set of programs would be far too difficult specialists first and historians of science the fall. Submit entries to Research in over the long term. We still need second. I urge that we all use the HSS as Progress, ASA, Office of the Executive $1,200,000. It is a large sum; but we shall the vehicle for our various interests­ Director, 307 College Hall/CO, Univer­ raise it because we must, and because the perhaps forming divisions and additional sity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA revitalization of the Society has brought publications within HSS, as the scientific 19104; telephone (215) 898-5408. out a fine spirit of dedication. societies do, but avoiding the regrettable So much for the positive results over splitting that, about twenty-five years The Australasian Association for the the past few years, always helped by ener­ ago, made many scholars in the history of History, Philosophy and Social Studies of getic members and by colleagues on the technology feel it necessary to set up a Science has recently published the inau­ Standing Committees, on the Council, separate society. Indeed, our better policy gural volume of its annual review, Meta­ and on the Executive Committee. But I will be to go in the opposite direction science. This volume is a special double must not close on this note, for it would now, perhaps not to merge with cognate issue on the theme "The Value of the not be true to the nature of things. For societies but at least to pool our energies Sociology of Know ledge for the Study of every cheerful theme there is likely to be for some of the common tasks. Science," with contributions by Keith an antithetical one. It is appropriate at The greatest danger to our continued Hutchison, John Schuster, Ditta Bartels, least to indicate, by a brief list of exam­ well-being as a Society may, however, Ron Johnston, John Clendinnen, and ples, the main dangers our Society and simply be that the very existence of the David Turnbull. Individual copies may be our profession now face. recent innovations I have listed will cause obtained by sending $15 (United States First, the frontiers and the expectations some to relax, perhaps to go to sleep. The currency) to the School of History and are expanding even more rapidly than wind is now fair; but the sea is wide and Philosophy of Science, University of New does our membership. Many areas are too our ship is small. lf worse times should South Wales, P.O. Box 1, Kensington, thinly populated, particularly those out­ come to our profession and if we are not N.S.W., Australia, 2033. side the main Western tradition (science prepared for them by having made our in Islam, China, Japan, Latin America). Society strong, I fear the potential of an The fifth annual bibliography of works on Also, we still do not have enough scholars ugly split between the relatively few who the history of Australian science is ex­ who command both the techniques of hold fairly secure positions and the much pected to be published in the Australian historical scholarship and the hard science larger and younger group of those who do Academy of Science's Historical Records itself. not-between the few haves and the of Australian Science in November Historians of science and technology do many have-nots. The great majority of the 1985, listing mainly works published not have the severe employment problem new programs I listed above are primarily during 1984 but also items published prior that reigns in some other scholarly fields; to help the latter group. That's where our to 1984 but not included in the earlier but it is bad enough for too many, and too future lies, and that's just one more rea­ bibliographies. The scope is limited to often our well-trained students have to son why the programs must succeed. material on the history of the natural settle for jobs that do not give enough But I see I wax too somber. Let me raise sciences (mathematics, physical sciences, scope to their talents. And the resources a toast to celebrate our fine meeting, our earth sciences, and biological sciences) for research support have shrunk mark­ Society's sixtieth anniversary, the publica­ and some of the applied sciences (includ­ edly; for example, as our April 1984 tion of the seventy-fifth volume of Isis, ing medical and health sciences, agricul­ Newsletter pointed out, in constant dol­ George Sarton's hundredth birthday, and ture, transport, manufacturing, and lars (corrected for inflation) the NSF has our good fortune to be part of so vigorous engineering). Relevant material published allowed the budget for research grants for an expedition toward our profession's during 1984 is solicited for the next bibli­ History and Philosophy of Science to bright destiny, one that Sarton knew we ography. 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