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1925-1929: Orvostortenelmi jegyzetek (Medico-historical notes). Edited and 

 written by Claudius F. Mayer; published by the Orvosi Hetilap (Medical 

 Weekly), Budapest. 

 A series of about 20 reprints of articles dealing with medico-historical topics, 



including the analysis of the Oribasius codex of the Hungarian National Museum, and 



other medieval manuscripts, the gynecological works of Cleopatra, history of the 



treatment of syphilis, etc. (C. F. M.) 



1936- : Osiris. Studies on the History and Philosophy of Science, and on the 

 History of Learning and Culture. Edited by George Sarton with the help of 

 Alexander Pogo. Vol. 1, 1936; vol. 9, 1950. Pubhshed by Saint Catherine 

 Press in Bruges, Belgium. 



This series is supplementary to Isis. It includes volumes devoted to a single 

 subject or group of subjects (as vol. 1, devoted to the history of mathematics) and 

 the longer and more technical papers; Isis is for the shorter ones, the reviews, notes, 

 queries, and critical bibhography. Each volume of Osiris is dedicated to a historian 

 of science and includes his biography, bibliography and portrait. Vols. 1 to 9 are 

 thus dedicated to D. E. Smith, Sir Thomas Heath, E. O. von Lippmann, Julius 

 Ruska, Joseph Bidez, Gino Loria, P. Ver Eecke, and Max Meyerhof. 



1889- : Ostwald's Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften. Leipzig, Engelmann. 

 See Klassiker. 



1925: Pagine di scienza. Published by Mondadori in Milano. 



Numbered series of monographs, 21 cm by 14 cm, each volume being an 

 anthology of the writings of a famous physicist, chemist, biologist, etc. No. 1 ( 1925 ) : 

 Leonardo (by S. Timpanaro). No. 2 (1925): Galileo (S. Timpanaro). Any 

 more? (C. F. M.) 



1946- : Pagine di storia della scienza. See p. 248. 



1940- : Pallas. Edited by Frans Verdoorn; published by the Chronica Bo- 



tanica in Waltham, Mass. 



Numbered reprints of rare historical reference works of botany. No. 1 (1948): 

 K. F. W. Jessen: Botanik der Gegenwart und Vorzeit in culturhistorischer Entwicke- 

 lung (Isis 40, 82). No. 2 ( 1952) : C. Darwin: Journal of Researches, ed. 1 ( 1839). 

 (C. F. M.). 



1918-1920: Papers of the Agricultural Historical Society, Washington. 



These are volumes of reprints from the annual reports of the American Histori- 

 cal Society. Only 3 vols, were pubhshed. For continuation see Agricultural 

 History. (C. F. M.) 



1886- : Periodico di matematiche, storia, didattica, filosofia. Edited by F. 



Enriques and G. Lazzeri; published by various pubhshers in Roma, Bologna 



and Livorno. Issued for the Associazione Mathesis. 



Current in its fourth series now. Ser. 1, v. 1-13, 1886-1898; ser. 2, vol. 1-5, 

 1899-1903; ser. 3, v. 1-15, 1903-1918; ser. 4, v. 1, 1921: vol. 10, 1930. 



There is also a set of supplements, vol. 1-20, 1898-1917. (C. F. M.) 



1924-1932: Per la storia e la filosofia delle matematiche. Edited by F. Enriq^tes; 



pubhshed by Stock in Roma, and later by Zanichelli in Bologna. Issued for the 



Istituto nazionale per la storia delle scienze fisiche e matematiche. 



Numbered series of volumes, 20 cm by 14 1/2 cm. No. 3: Newton, I. Principi 



di filosofia naturale (ed. F. Enriques). No. 7 (1929): Bombelli, R. Algebra 



(Isis 14, 425). No. 9 (1931): Galileo. Last one is No. 11, 1932(?) (C. F. M.) 



1937- : Petrus Nonius: publicagao do grupo Portuges da historia das ciencias. 

 Review of the Portuguese group of the history of sciences, edited by Arlindo 

 Camilo MONTEmO. 



The first volume was pubhshed in Lisbon 1937-38, the first part of vol. 7 

 reached me in July 1949. The address of the editor is now Caixa Postal 2581, Rio 

 de Janeiro, Brazil. 



Isis 29, 255. 



