ISSN 0739-4934 NEWSLETTER I IISTORY OF SCIENCE -~-o-~-~-9~.9-ts-N·u·M·B·E·R·3__________ S00ETY GOOD NEWS ON OSIRIS HSS EXECUTIVE RECENT GIFTS AND GRANTS lOP $100,000 COMMITTEE PRESIDENT Within a few short weeks early this spring, the History of Science Society re­ MARY JO NYE, University of Oklahoma ceived gifts and grants totaling $105,000 in support of Osiris, its annual review VICE-PRESIDENT of recent scholarship in selected areas of the history of science. The first gift, of STEPHEN G. BRUSH, University of $50,000, was announced on 24 April by Charles Scribner, Jr., who established Maryland the Society's Osiris Fund in the early 1980s with a contribution of $30,000. Mr. EXECLnTVESECRETARY Scribner is best known to HSS members as the publisher of the magisterial Dic­ MICHAEL M . SOKAL, Worcester Polytechnic Institute tionary of Scientific Biography and has for many years been one of the Society's major benefactors. TREASURER MARY LOUISE GLEASON, New York City Soon thereafter, on 2 May, the Joseph H. Hazen Foundation paid tribute to EDITOR ~SS past president Gerald Holton by awarding $25,000 to the Osiris Fund in his RONALD L. NUMBERS, University of 10nor. Just last spring Mr. Hazen endowed the History of Science Society Dis­ Wisconsin-Madison tinguished Lectureship with a grant of $30,000, and just before Christmas 1988 he donated over $13,000 to the Society to support the programs and activities of the Committee on Education. He too has been among the Society's major bene­ factors for many years. While neither contribution was made dependent on the receipt of matching The Newsletter of the History of Science Society is published in January,.April, July, and funds-indeed, these donations are already earning interest for the Society­ October. Regular issues are sent to those indi­ both Mr. Scribner and the Hazen Foundation challenged others to join them in vidual members of the Society residing in Nonh America. Airmail copies are sent to those supporting Osiris and called for gifts and grants from the Society's membership members overseas who pay $5 yearly to cover and additional benefactors. postal costs. The Newsletter is available to non­ Even before the Society could announce this challenge, the Alfred P. Sloan members and institutions for $20 a year. The Newsletter is overseen by a Steering Foundation informed President Mary Jo Nye on 4 May that it was awarding Committee consisting of the President, the Continued on page 17 Executive Secretary, and the Editor of the His­ tory of Science Society. It is edited by the Execu­ tive Secretary, Dr. Michael Sokal, and is produced at the Society's Publications Office under the supervision of Dr. Frances Kohler. Send news items to Newsletter, History of Science Society, c/o Michael Sokal, 35 Dean Street, Worcester, MA 01609. The deadline for receipt of news is the tenth of the month prior to publication; for articles and other long copy; the first of the month. ALSO IN THIS ISSUE HSS ELECTION 2 BALWf 5 PREREGISTRATION AND ROOM RESERVATIONS FORMS 11 Joseph H. Hazen Charles Scribner, Jr. page2 History of Science Society Newsletter Owen Hannaway Sally Gregory Kohlstedt John Beatty foe D . Burchfield Harold f. Cook its recent growth in resources to expand THE 1989 HSS ELECTION programs for members, to reach new audiences, and to strengthen and restruc­ CANDIDATES' BIOGRAPHIES ture its own internal operation. The vice­ president should work with the president to oversee and facilitate initiatives begun FOR VICE-PRESIDENT Sally Gregory Kohlstedt in the past several years, to guide the Society's ongoing collective efforts to Owen Hannaway Professor of the History of Science, Uni­ establish priorities, and to enlarge the versity of Minnesota. Ph.D., University of intellectual traditions which operate at Professor of the History of Science, Johns illinois, 1972. Specialties: history of sci­ the core of the discipline. Hopkins University. Ph.D., Glasgow ence in the United States, especially University, 1965. Specialties: history of nineteenth-century natural history; insti­ early modem science; history of chemis­ tutional development (societies, try. Professional activities: HSS-Council, museums, and public culture); women in 1983-85; Program cochair, joint meeting science. Professional activities: HSS­ FOR COUNCIL with SHOT, SSSS, PSA, Philadelphia, Secretary, 1978-81; Council, 1982-84; 1982; Pfizer Award Committee, chair, Committee on Publications, 1983-87; John Beatty 1971-72; Zeitlin-VerBrugge Prize Com­ Nominating Committee, chair, 1985; mittee, 1984-85; Nominating Commit­ Visiting Historian of Science, 1988-90. Associate Professor of the History of Sci­ tee, chair, 1987. Member, International Chair, Section L, AAAS, 1986. Editorial ence and Technology, Department of Program Committee for XVIIth Interna­ Boards, Signs; Science; Science, Technol­ Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Univer­ tional Congress, Berkeley, 1985. U.S. ogy and Human Values. Forum on the sity of Minnesota; Member, Minnesota National Committee for International History of Science in America, chair, Center for the Philosophy of Science. Union of History and Philosophy of Sci­ 1985, 1986. U.S. delegate to the Interna­ Ph.D., Indiana University, 1979. Special­ ence, 1989. American Council of Learned tional Congress, 1977, 1981, 1985. Ful­ ties: history and philosophy of biology, Societies, Grants-in-Aid panelist (History bright Senior Fellow to Australia, 1983. nineteenth and twentieth centuries; biol­ Division), 1987-88. Editorial Boards, Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, Fall1986. ogy and society. Professional activities: Historical Studies in the Physical Sci­ Smithsonian Institution Fellow, 1987. HSS- Council, 1988; Committee on ences, 1974-79; British Journal for the Selected publications: The Formation of Research and the Profession. Selected History of Science, 1989-. Selected publi­ the American Scientific Community: The publications: "Weighing the Risks: Stale­ cations: The Chemists and the Wont: The American Association for the Advance­ mate in the Classical/Balance Contro­ Didactic Origins of Chemistry (Johns ment of Science, 1848-1860 ~illinois, versy," Joumal of the History of Biology, Hopkins, 1975); ed. (with P. Achinstein), 1976); ed. (with Margaret W. Rossiter), 1987, 20:289-319; "Dobzhansky and Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis Historical Writing on American Science Drift: Facts, Values, and Chance in Evolu­ in Modem Physical Science (MIT, 1985); (Osiris, 1985; Johns Hopkins, 1986); tionary Biology;' in The Probabilistic "The German Model of Chemical Educa­ "Australian Museums of Natural History: Revolution, Vol. ll, ed. L. Kriiger, G. Gi­ tion in America-Ira Remsen at Johns Public Priorities and Scientific Initiatives gerenzer, and M.S. Morgan (MIT, 1987); Hopkins, 1876- 1912;' Ambix, 1976, in the Nineteenth Century;' Historical "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the 23:145-164; "Laboratory Design and the Records of Australian Science, 1983, 5:61- War and Postwar Years: Questions and Aim of Science: Andreas Libavius versus 82; "Maria Mitchell and the Advancement Comments;' Joumal of the History of Jycho Brahe," Isis, 1986, 77:585- 610 of Women in Science;' rpt. in Uneasy Biology, 1988, 21:245-263; coauthor, The (Derek Price Award, 1988). Statement: My Careers and Intimate Lives, ed. P. Abir­ Empire of Chance: How Probability priorities, if elected, will be to promote Am and D. Outram (Rutgers, 1987); "His­ Changed Science and Everyday Life, by G. the highest standards of scholarship tory in a Natural History Museum: Gigerenzer et al. (Cambridge, 1989). Cur­ within the discipline of the history of George Brown Goode and the Smithso­ rent project: a book on genetics and evolu­ science; to encourage a broad and gener­ nian Institution;' Public Historian, 1988, tionary biology in the atomic age-a study ous intellectual approach to the subject; 10:7-26; "Curiosities and Cabinets: Natu­ of an interconnected set of conceptual, and to convey to the rest of the scholarly ral History Museums and Education on methodological, and social policy issues community the vigor and excitement that the Antebellum Campus;' Isis, 1988, facing geneticists and evolutionary biolo­ mark the current state of our discipline. 79:405- 426. Statement: The HSS has used gists in the 1940s- 1960s. July 1989 page3 the Present (Garland, 1985); "The Devel­ opment of Cantorian Set Theory,'' in From the Calculus to Set Theory. 1630- 1910, ed. I. Grattan-Guinness (Duckworth, 1977); "Abraham Robinson and Nonstan­ dard Analysis: History, Philosophy and Foundations of Mathematics," in New Perspectives on the History and Philoso· phy of Mathematics, ed. P. Kitcher and W. Joseph W Dauben Mordechai Feingold Lynn S.Joy Aspray (Minnesota, 1987). Mordechai Feingold Thomas Bonham;' American foUinal of Joe D. Burchfield Associate Professor, Center for the Study Legal History. 1985, 29:301-322; "Physi­ of Science in Society, Virginia Polytechnic cians and the New Philosophy: Henry Associate Professor of History, Northern Institute and State University. D .Phil., Stubbe and the Virtuosi-Physicians;' in illinois University. Ph.D., Johns Hopldns Oxford University, 1980. Specialties: early Medical Revolution in the Seventeenth University, 1969. Specialties: history of modem "English and European science; Century. ed. A. Wear and R. French (Cam­ physics and geology; social and cultural history of universities; Newtonianism; bridge, 1989); "Policing the Health of history of Victorian science. Professional London: The College of Physicians and