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NOTES ON CONTRIB UTORS

A. K. Bhatnagar is a graduate student in the Depar-tment of Botany, Un-iversity of Delhi. He is completin-g his Ph.D. dissertation on the anatomy an-d embi-yology of some taxa of controver- sial systematic position and is also teaching plant taxonomy at Hans Raj College, University of Delhi.

Wolfgang Breidert teaches philosophy at the University of Karlsruhe. His research interests include the histor-y of mathematics. He is the author- of Das aristotelische Kontinuum in der Scholastik (1970) and the editor of German ti-an-slation-s of Ber-keley's wri-iting on the founda- tioiis of mathematics and physics.

Jed Z. Buchwald is in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Tor-onto.

Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr. is Associate Professor of History an-d Director of the Pr-ogr-am in the History anid Philosophy of Science at the Univer- sity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of "The Evolutionary Thought of Jean- Baptiste Lamarck," for-thcoming from the Har- vard Unixersity Pr-ess.

I. Bernard Cohen is a for-mer Editor- of Isis and Pr-ofessor of Histor-y of Science at Ha-var-d Uni- er-sity. He is author of Introduction to Newton's

"Princippia" (197 1).

Ruth Schwartz Cowan is Associate Professor of Histor-y at the State Univer-sity of New York at Stony Brook. Her study of Galton- will soon appear- in the new journ-al Polypus.

Stillman Drake, who is r-etir-ing fr-onm the Univer- sity of Tor-onto this year, began his series of "Galileo Gleanings" in Isis twenty year-s ago. He is pr-esen-tly wr-iting a biogi-aphical account of Galileo's scientific career.

Frank N. Egerton III is Associate Professor- of History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsini-Pai-kside, Ken-osha. He has wr-itten a number- of articles oni the histor-y of ecology and is pr-esently writing a history of population biology.

Lyndsay Farrall is Senior Lecturer- in Histoly of Science an-d Technology at the Univer-sity of Papua New Guinea. He is especially interested in the histor-y of evolutionary theory and the history of science and technology in the South Pacific.

Robert Galatzer-Levy is a psychiatrist in private practice in Chicago. He is all Associate Atten-ding Physician at Michael Reese Hospital Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Institute and Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. His research interests include the development of psychoan-alysis and various aspects of clinical psychiatry.

Gilles G. Granger, who is Professor- of Philoso- phy of Science, University of Provence, Aix en Provence, is the author- of La mthnm tiquesociale dut Marquiis de Condorcet (1956), Pens&e formelle et scienices de i'homme (1967), and Essai dune philosophie d'u style (968).

Nathan G. Hale, Jr. is Associate Pr-ofessor of Histor-y at the Univer-sity of California, Riverside. He is tlhe author of Freud and the Americans and editor- of James Jackson Putnam and Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and Muiltiple Personality: The Collected Papers of Morton Prince.

Bert S. Hall is an Assistant Pr-ofessor- of History at the State University of Newr Yoi-k at Buffalo. He is engaged in wvor-k with pictor-ial sources inl medieval and Reniaissan-ce technology, an-d he has edited a collection- of articles, On Pre- Modem Technology and Science.

Thomas L. Hankins is Pr-ofessor- of History, University of Washington, Seattle. He is cur-i-ent- ly vor-kinig on a biogr-aphy of Sir- William Rowan Hamilton.

Sandra Herbert is Assistan-t Professor in History at the University of Mar-ylan-d-Baltimor-e County. She is inter-ested in th-e h-istor-y of moder-n biology. par-ticular-ly the developmen-t of evolutionary theory. She is pr-eparing for- publication the notebook in which Dai-win fir-st took a trans- muttationiist position.

R. N. Kapil is Pr-ofessor of Botany at the Univer- sity of Delhi. His current inter-ests ar-e in the ultr-astr-ucture and histochemistry of repr-oduc- tive organs. He has published extensively in the fields of embryology and anatomy of angio- sper-ms and histor-y of biology. He is co-author of Fifty Years of Science in India (1963).

Robert H. Kargon is Chairman of the History of Scien-ce Departmen-t at the Johns Hopkins University. He has been concer-ned with science in the ui-bain context and is completing a book oi1 scienice in Victor-iani Man-chester.

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508 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Malcolm J. Kottler teaches history of science at the Univer-sity of Minnesota. Among his interests is the history of cytology, especially cytologi- cal technique and microscopy.

Bengt I. Lindskog has been Assistant Professor in Surgery at the University of Lund since 1971. He is the founder of the Medical Historical Society of Southern Sweden, the editor of its yearbo)ok, and its secretary (from 1964 to 1976).

James Longrigg is Lecturer in Classics at the Univer-sity of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is cur- i-en-tly completinlg a book about the development and influen-ce of the four-element theor-y in classical antiquity.

N. Mullins, Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, is spending the year 1976- 1977 at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton. He is the author of Theory Groups in Contemporary American Sociology.

Ronald Naylor is Head of the Division of Philos- ophy at Thames Polytechnic, London. He is inter-ested in the methodological and philosophical problems of the physical sciences, in particular the process of scientific change.

Robert A. Nye is nlow Associate Professor- in the Depar-tmnent of History, University of Ok- lahoma. He is the author of The Origins of Crowd Psychology: Gustave LeBon and the Crisis of Mass Democracy in the Third Republic (1975), and is nlow working on ci-ime, ideology, and social sciences in the Third Republic.

Harry W. Paul is Professor of History at the University of Florida.

Nathan Reingold is Editor of the Joseph Henry Papers at the Smithsonian Institution. He has published Science in Nineteenth Century America, a Documentary History, and is preparing a twen- tieth-century sequel.

Michael Ruse is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is the author of The Philosophy of Biology and several papers on the histor-y and philosophy of biology. His current riesearch interest centers on the Darwinian i-evolution.

Alan E. Shapiro is Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His research is in the history of the physical sciences, particularly in the scientific revolution, and he is preparing a critical edition of Newton's Optical Lectures.

N. Sivin, Professor of the History of Science and of Chinese Culture at M.I.T., has recently been applying anthropological and sociological perspectives to the study of illness and healing in China before modern times. His most important publication in the last year was "Shen Kua" in the Dictionan of Scientific Biography.

Phillip R. Sloan is Assistant Professor in the General Program of Liberal Studies and the Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is in-terested in the history and philosophy of the life scien-ces in the early modern period and is presen-tly at work on a history of the species con-cept in biology.

Crosbie Smith is a member of the newly estab- lished Unit for the History, Philosophy, and Social Relations of Science at the University of Kent at Canter-bury, England. He has recently received his doctorate from Cambridge University for research on the history of thermodynamics and is nlow engaged in a study of the emergence of physics in ninieteen-th-century Britain.

Michael M. Sokal is Associate Professor of His- tory at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Af- filiate Associate Professor of History of Science an-d Techn-ology at Clark University. He has written extensively on the development of ex- perimetntal psychology 'and related areas of science in the United States.

Victor E. Thoren is Associate Professor of Histo- ry of Science at Indiana University. He is interested in all aspects of technical astronomy and is currently engaged in a study of the work of Tycho Brahe.

Thaddeus J. Trenn teaches in the Department of History of Science at the University of Re- gensburg. He has edited an historical source book, Radioactivity and Atomic Theorn (1975).

Glenn Vandervliet, a Wisconsin doctorate in the history of science, teaches history at Northfield Mount Herinon School (Massachusetts) and is the author of M'icrobiology and the Spontaneous Generation Debate in the 1870s (1971).

Winifred Lovell Wisan teaches history of science at the Newv School of Liberal Arts of Brooklyn College. Her main interests are Galileo and the development of scientific method. She is the author of "The New Science of Motion: A Study of Galileo's De motu locali," in the Archive for Hi.storn of Exact Sciences.



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