News of the ProfessionSource: Isis, Vol. 54, No. 4 (Dec., 1963), pp. 485-486Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/228156 .

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NEWS OF THE PROFESSION

New Program in the History of Science The Ohio State University history

department is inaugurating a program of instruction in the history of science. In connection with the program the department announces the appoint- ment of John Chynoweth Burnham of San Francisco State College to offer courses in the history of American science.

Edward A. Birge and Chancey Juday Papers

The scientific papers of Edward A. Birge (1851-1950) and Chancey Juday (1871-1944) have recently been ar-

ranged and catalogued by Mr. Frank N. Egerton and are now available for use at the University of Wisconsin Ar- chives, Madison. This famous research team were pioneers of limnology in America.

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology For the first time since Professor F.

Gonseth's retirement in 1960, courses in the history of science were given dur- ing the past academic year at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (E. T. H.) in Zurich. Professor Max Jammer, on leave from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, lectured on the history and phi- losophy of physics to majors and gradu- ate students of the E. T. H. and the University of Zurich. Professor Jammer also conducted a seminar on the his- torical and conceptual development of quantum mechanics at which profes- sional physicists - among them Profes- sor W. Heitler - actively participated.

New Appointments Dr. Arthur E. Woodruff, a Fulbright

scholar who has been teaching and studying at Yale University, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Science Education in the Department of Mathe- matics and Science Education at Yeshiva University.

Dr. Ilza Veith has accepted an ap- pointment as Professor of the History of Medicine in the Department of Medical History and Bibliography at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. She will assume her duties there on January 1.

George D. Goldat Dr. George D. Goldat has been teach-

ing courses in philosophy and science at Bates College. So far he has given: " The Idea of Exact Science from An- tiquity to the Seventeenth Century," "Two New Sciences and the Crisis in Contemporary Civilization," "Four Thinkers in Search of a Philosophy (Collingwood, Cassirer, Husserl, and

Heidegger) ," and " The Notion of Life in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Cen- turies."

Colloquium In celebration of the seventy-fifth

birthday of Dr. Hans Schimank, Honor- ary Professor of the History of Science of the University of Hamburg, a col- loquium was held on June 15, 1963. The speakers included Dr. B. Sticker, Dr. J. Weck, Dr. G. Rath, Dr. R. Hooy- kaas, and Dr. F. Klemm.

Bibliography of Paperbound Books

A limited number of copies of a thirty-five-page "Bibliography of Pap- erbound Books in the History of Sci- ence and Technology" are available. Classified according to the Critical Bibliography of Isis, the comprehen- sive, up-to-date bibliography was com- piled under the direction of Dr. Robert E. Schofield by graduate students in the History of Science and Technology pro- gram at Case Institute of Technology. Copies may be obtained, at one dollar each, by writing to Dr. Schofield, Case Institute of Technology, University Circle, Cleveland 6, Ohio.

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NEWS OF THE PROFESSION

Dexter Award

Professor Douglas McKie, head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University College, London, has received the Dexter Award for his outstanding work in the history of chemistry. The annual award, admin- istered by the Division of History of Chemistry, American Chemical Society, was established in 1956 by Dexter Chemical Corporation, New York, to " recognize noteworthy contributions to the advancement of the history of chem- istry."

Professor McKie is an internationally known authority on the history of French chemistry and especially on Antoine Lavoisier. For his researches in the history of French chemistry in the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- turies he was appointed Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. He is a member of the " Commission Lavoisier " of the Academy of Science, Paris, dealing with the publication of Lavoisier's corre- spondence. He founded and still edits the Annals of Science and is founder and chairman of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry. He has written more than seventy books and papers.

Monumenta Cartographica On September 23-25 the Commission

on Ancient Maps, International Geo- graphical Union, held its biennial meet- ing at the National Library in Paris. Under the chairmanship of Mr. R. A. Skelton, head of the Map Room, British Museum, the Commission dealt with its plans for the 1964 International Geographical Congress, to be held in London. The report which the Com- mission will submit to the 1964 Inter- national Geographical Congress will be the first volume of its current project: Monumenta Cartographica Vetusioris Aevi. This first volume will be pub- lished as a supplement to Imago Mundi, and it is expected that it will be avail- able on July 1, 1964.

The subject treated by this under- taking, Monumenta Cartographica, will be a "catalogue raisonne" of maps before 1500. Volume I will deal with world maps, and an idea of the scope of the volume may be given by stating that it will describe in detail some eight hundred maps. Two hundred and forty-five of these were made before 1200 A.D., the rest between 1200 and 1500 A. D. The remainder of the Monu- menta Cartographica series will com- prise three volumes. Volume II will deal with nautical charts, Volume III with regional maps including those in the several editions of Ptolemy pub- lished during the period, and Volume IV with incunabula maps. No deadline has been set for the publication of the remaining volumes.

Galileo Quatercentenary Congress From 9 to 11 April 1964 at the Uni-

versity of Notre Dame a program will be held to celebrate the quatercenten- ary of Galileo's birth. The following papers are to be presented: A. Rupert Hall, "The significance of Galileo's thought in the history of science "; Eric Cochrane, " The Florentine background of Galileo's work"; Anneliese Maier, " Galileo's discovery of the Principle of Inertia and its origins in the scholastic theory of impetus "; Thomas McTighe, "Was Galileo a Platonist?'"; Willy Hartner, " Galileo's contribution to as- tronomy "; Raymond Seeger, " Galileo's work in Statics "; Vasco Ronchi, " Gali- leo and the telescope"; Carl Boyer, " Galileo's place in the history of mathe- matics "; Stillman Drake, "Galileo in English literature of the seventeenth century "; Aron Gurwitsch, "Galilean physics in the light of Husserl's phenom- enology "; Dominic Dubarle, " Galileo's methodology of natural science "; and Joseph Clark, " The ' Galileo Affair' in retrospect." The proceedings of this congress are to be published afterwards as a contribution to Galileo studies in the quatercentenary year of Galileo's birth.

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