238 Journals and Serials 



1898-1901: Scientific memoirs. Edited by Joseph Sweetman Ames (1864-1943). 



15 vols. New York, American Book Co. Vols. 1-7, title reads Harper's Scientific 



Memoirs. 



Each volume contains various papers dealing -with one physical or chemical sub- 

 ject: free expansion of gases, prismatic and difiFraction spectra. X-rays, law of radia- 

 tion and absorption, stereo-chemistry, etc. 



1921-1923: Gli scienziati italiani daU'inizio del medio evo ai nostri giomi. Re- 



pertorio bio-bibliografico dei filosofi, matematici (etc.). Edited by Aldo Mieli 

 and published by A. Nardecchia in Roma. 



One volume published in two parts (474 p., ill.) including 58 biographies (Isis 

 4,112-14). (C. F. M.) 



1932- : Scripta mathematica; a quarterly journal devoted to the philosophy, 

 history and expository treatment of mathematics. Edited by Jekuthiel Gins- 

 BURG; pubhshed by Yeshiva College, Amsterdam Avenue and 186th St., New 

 York. Volume 1 appeared in 1932-33; vol. 14, in 1948. 

 The first no. of vol. 1 (92 p.) appeared in September 1932 (Isis 19, 589). 

 The journal has two numbered sets of monographs. One is the Scripta Mathe- 

 matica Library the vol. 1 of which appeared in 1934; it is D. E. Smith's The poetry 

 of mathematics and other essays. The other set is complete in one number pub- 

 lished in 1936; its title is Scripta Mathematica Studies. 



1941-1946: Seances et Travaux de la Societe d'histoire de la pharmacie. Published 

 at Paris, 4 Avenue de I'Observatoire; also at Toulouse, 14 rue Peyras. 

 Annual publication containing the writings of members; it temporarily replaced 

 the Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie which was last published in June 1940. Num- 

 bering is, however, unchanged. Hence, No. Ill is the first annual issue, containing 

 the papers read during 1941; it was pubhshed in 1942. No. 112, for 1942, ap- 

 peared in 1943. No. 113, for 1943, the year of German occupation, was printed 

 in 1945. Latest number seen is No. 116, 1946, annee 34. With No. 117 (March 

 1947) the publication resumed its original form as Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie 

 (q.v.). (C. F. M.) 



1869- : Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-medizinischen Sozietat zu Erlangen. 



It is out of the question to list the academic serials, but an exception may perhaps 

 be made in favor of the Erlangen society because it includes a long series of papers 

 on Arabic science by Eilhakd Wiedemann (1852-1928; Isis 14, 168-86) and some 

 of his disciples. These articles appeared under the general title Beitrage zur Ge- 

 schichte der Naturwissenschaften (no. 1, 1902 to no. 79, 1929). There is a complete 

 set of these Beitrage, two bound volumes, in the Sarton Library. The same 

 society also published Ernst Zinner: Entstehung und Ausbreitung der Copperni- 

 canischen Lehre (1943; Isis 35, 61; 36, 261-66). 



1929- : Source books in the history of the sciences. Edited by Gregory D. 



Walcott. New York, McGraw-Hill. 



Harlow Shapley: Astronomy (1929; Isis 13, 130-34); David Eugene Smith: 

 Mathematics (1929; Isis 14, 268-70); W. F. Magie; Physics (1935; Isis 26, 176); 

 KiRTLEY F. Mather: Geology (1939; Isis 31, 578); Morris R. Cohen and I. E. 

 Drabkin: Greek science (1948; Isis 40, 277). 



1914-1930: Stoicheia. Studien zur Geschichte der antiken Weltbildes und der grie- 



chischen Wissenschaft (Leipzig, Teubner). 9 thin vols. 



Vol. 1 to 7, (1914-25) were edited by Franz Boll (1867-1924); vols. 8-9 pub- 

 hshed in 1927 and 1&30, still bear his name as founder of the collection, no other 

 editor being named. 



1911-1933: Storia delle scienze. Societa tipografico-editrice nazionale (Sten), To- 

 rino. 



Complete in eight volumes, 

 i) Sir Edoardo Thorpe: Chimica (1911; Isis 1, 565). 2) Rinaldo Pitoni: 



