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1926-1927: Library of medical history. New York. 

 See Historia medicinae. (C. F. M.) 



1948- : The Life of Science library. Collection of books on the history of 



science published by Henry Schuman, New York. 



Keynote volume The Life of Science, Essays in the history of civilization by 

 George Sarton ( 1948; Isis 40). Thus far, 14 volumes have appeared, each dealing 

 with a great man of science (Benjamin Silliman, Copernicus, Archimedes, 

 Claude Bernard, etc.), the history of an idea or a technique (anaesthesia, the 

 ships, . . .) or the history of a scientific institution (the Royal Society, the Smith- 

 sonian Institution . . .). The latest volume (the 14th) is R. J. Forbes: Man the 

 Maker, a History of Technology and Engineering (1950). 



1803-1805: Lucine frangaise; ou, Recueil d'observations medicales, chirurgicales, 

 pharmaceutiques, historiques, critiques et litteraires, relatives a la science des 

 accouchemens. Edited, and chiefly written, by Jean FRANgois Sacombe; pub- 

 lished in Paris. 



A very curious publication, being a mixture of truly synthetical history and 

 obstetrical practice, including a history of obstetrics, history of Cesarean section 

 (vol. 1), and a pecuhar drama in three acts entitled: Henri et Jeanne de Sey- 

 mour, premiere victime de I'operation Caesarienne. Three volumes make the set. 

 (C. F. M.) 



1936- : Lychnos. Lardomshistoriska samfundets arsbok ( Annual of the Swedish 

 history of learning society). Edited by Johann Nordstrom, professor at the 

 University of Uppsala; pubUshed by Almquist and Wiksells, Uppsala and Stock- 

 holm. Pubhshed normally once a year, vol. 1 appeared in 1936 (560 p., ill.; 

 Isis 28, 177-80); the latest volume received was the one for 1950-51, published 

 in 1951. 

 The Society was founded in 1934; its first meeting was held in 1935. 



1936- : Lychnos-bibliotek; studier och kallskrifter (studies and sources). Is- 

 sued by the Lardomshistoriska samfundet; published by Almqvist-Wiksells in 

 Uppsala. 

 Unnumbered series, each volume xlevoted to a special topic: reviewed in Isis as 



it appeared. No. 1: N. v. E. Nordenmark: Anders Celsius professor i Uppsala, 



1701-44. {See Isis 26: 177-80). (C. F. M.) 



1802-1806: Magazin der beriihmtesten und interessantesten See- und Landreisen, 

 Entdeckungen und Schiffbriiche von Columbus Zeiten. Pubhshed by Sommer 

 in Leipzig. 

 Complete in 6 volumes (each of 4 numbers) and no. 1 & 2 of the 7th vol. 



(C.F. M.) 



1920-1925: Les Maitres de la pensee scientifique; collection de memoires publics 

 par les soins de Maurice Solovine: Paris, Gauthier-Villars. 

 Each 16° volume is devoted to a man of science: d'Alembert, Ampere, Pierre 

 BouGUER, Lazare Carnot, Clairaut, Rene Dutrochet, Spallanzani, Einstein, 

 Huyghens, Laplace, Lavoisier, Mariotte, Monge, Painleve (the great majority 

 are French). 



Publisher's unnumbered, irregularly issued series of volumes containing basic 

 memoirs and works of contemporary or older investigators; under the general direc- 

 tion of Maurice Solovine who is also the translator of some volumes. Of general 

 interest to all branches, including methodology and philosophy of science. Latest 

 vol. on my record is from 1925: Einstein, A., Sur I'electrodynamique des corps en 

 mouvement. 



1892-1893: Maitres de la science; bibliotheque retrospective. Pubhshed by Masson 

 in Paris. 

 Ten volumes of 12Tno size edited by Charles Richet. ( C. F. M. ) 



