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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Lawrence Badash, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, spent 1965-1966 at Cambridge University as a NATO postdoctoral fellow and the recipient of an NSF grant. The year was spent examining Rutherford's papers and interviewing his former students in a study of the history of radio- activity.

Richard J. Blackwell, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy and History of Science Program at Saint Louis Uni- versity, is the co-translator of St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle's Physics and translator of Christian Wolff, Preliminary Discourse on Philosophy in General.

William D. Blake, Professor and Head of the Department of Physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, is interested in neuroendocrine control of the kidney.

Alfred M. Bork, Professor of Physics at Reed College, investigates the history of physics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth cen- turies, with emphasis on the development of electromagnetic theory, from Maxwell's time until the early work on relativity. He is also interested in teaching physics to nonscience majors and using computers in teaching physics.

Harold L. Burstyn teaches the history of science at Carnegie Institute of Technology. During 1965-1966 he held an NSF postdoctoral fellowship at Imperial College London, where he worked on a book about the Challenger expedition. He spends summers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution working on the history of environmental physics.

Earle R. Caley is Professor of Chemistry at Ohio State University, where he teaches the history of chemistry and analytical chemistry, The author of Analysis of Ancient Metals (1964), his research interests have been in the composition of ancient materials and objects.

Albert V. Carozzi has been Professor of Ge- ology at the University of Illinois since 1959. His fields of research include the petrography of carbonate rocks and the history of geology, with emphasis on German and French proto- geologists. He has published translations of

Werner's On the External Characters of Min- erals, Lamarck's Hydrogeology, and Agassiz's Studies on Glaciers.

Marshall Clagett, former President of the History of Science Society, is Professor of the History of Science at the Institute for Ad- vanced Study in Princeton. One of his recent books is the first volume of Archimedes in the Middle Ages (1964).

I. Bernard Cohen, of Harvard University, is well known to readers of Isis as its former editor, and as former president of the History of Science Society. He is currently completing a critical edition of Newton's Principia, which was undertaken in collaboration with the late Professor Alexandre Koyre.

Stillman Drake, who has translated Galileo's principal scientific works into English, is the author of articles concerning Galileo, A. B. Johnson, and J. B. Stallo. He works in San Francisco as a municipal financing consultant for Blyth & Co.

John Duffy is Professor of the History of Medicine at the Tulane University School of Medicine. One of his recent books is The Sword of Pestilence, the New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853 (in press).

Richard J. Durling, formerly on the staff of the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, is Curator of Early Western Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine.

Frank N. Egerton III is Assistant to the Director of the Hunt Botanical Library, Car- negie Institute of Technology, where he is editing and doing research in the history of biology.

Eduard Farber, editor of Great Chemists, lec- tures on the history of chemistry at American University.

Roger Hahn, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, is preparing a history of the Paris Academy of Sciences during the eighteenth century. His latest publications are L'hydrodynamique au XVIIIe siecle (Paris, 1965) and "Reflections on the History of Science" (Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1965).

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John L. Heilbron, formerly Assistant Director of the project "Sources for History of Quan- tum Physics," is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at the University of Penn- sylvania. He is preparing a study of the early history of electricity; a paper on the work of H. G. H. Moseley will appear in Isis.

David C. Lindberg is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan, whire he is developing a graduate program in the history of science. He has completed an edition' of John Peckham's Perspectiva communis and is doing research in late-medieval optics under an NSF grant.

W. B. McDaniel, 2d, Curator of Library His- torical Collections, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and author of numerous papers in the field of medical history has served as

Secretary of the American Association for the

History of Medicine and as President of the Medical Library Association.

Stephen Merton, Professor of English at the

City College of New York City, is the author of Science and Imagination in Sir Thomas Browne.

Nathan Reingold is the newly appointed Edi- tor of the Papers of Joseph Henry at the Smithsonian Institution. He recently published Science in Nineteenth-Century America: A

Documentary History and is working on a two- volume continuation for this century.

Victor Roberts, who has taught mathematics at the University of Baghdad, is this year teaching and doing graduate work in the United States. He has published several articles on the fourteenth-century astronomer Ibn al- Shatir and is currently preparing a critical edition and translation of the entire source.

Edward Rosen, Professor of the History of Science at the City University of New York, is the author of many books and articles, including Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal Messenger.

Morgan Sherwood is Assistant Professor of History in the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Exploration of Alaska, 1865-1900, and co-editor of The Politics of American Science.

Dirk J. Struik, Emeritus Professor Qf Mathe- matics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of Concise History of Mathe- matics and Yankee Science in the Making. He is preparing a history of colonial science in North America and a source book of mathematical literature written between 1200 and 1800.

Wilcomb E. Washburn is Chairman of the Department of American Studies at the Smith- sonian Institution. His writing has focused upon colonial American history, Indian-white relations, political theory, and museum history and theory; he is the author of The Governor and the Rebel: A History of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia.

A. E. Woodruff is Assistant Professor at the Belfer Graduate School of Science, Yeshiva University, where he teaches the history of physics and the history of mathematics.

Conway Zirkle has been a professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 1937. He is a former Vice-President of the History of Sci- ence Society and a former member of the Isis Editorial Board. He is the author (with M. J. Sirks) of The Evolution of Biology (1964).

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