250 National Societies 



1913: Genootschap voor Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Wiskunde en Natuur- 

 wetenschappen (Society for the History of Medicine, Mathematics and Natural 

 Sciences). — The Dutch society was founded in June 1913, in Leiden, at the 

 initiative of E. C. van Leersum and J. A. Vollgraff. A history of its activities 

 during the first thirty-five years (1913-48) was prepared by the secretary 

 D. Burger: Gedenkboekje (44 p., many portraits, Amsterdam 1948). 

 The annual reports of the Society are published in the Dutch journal of medicine 

 (Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde). 



The address of the Society is c/o the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. 

 The address of the Secretary, D. Burger, is Statensingel 183a, Rotterdam, Nether- 

 lands. 



1922: Schweizerische Gesellschaft fiir Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwis- 

 senschaften ( Societe Suisse d'Histoire de la Medecine et des Sciences Naturelles). 

 — The Society publishes Veroffentlichungen (q.v.) and Gesnerus (q.v.). 

 The secretary (Jan. 1949) is Prof. Hans Fischer, Pharmakologisches Institut der 



Universitat, Gloriastr., Ziirich 6. 



1924: History of Science Society. — This society was founded in Boston on Jan. 12, 



1924 and the international journal, Isis, became its organ from vol. 6 on (1924). 



The history of the foundation of the HSS is told at the beginning of that volume. 



It should be noted that the Society is international, though on account of its 

 location and of the preponderant use of English, the great majority of its members are 

 Americans. 



In addition to Isis, it has published a number of books (thus far 9, listed in Isis 

 34, 411 ). The publication of other books has been encouraged by the Society. 



The present secretary of the HSS is Mr. Fred Kilgour (Yale Medical Library, 

 New Haven, Conn. ) . 



The dues are now $6 a year. Members receive Isis free of charge. 



Original statutes of the HSS (Isis 6, 521-22, 1924). Revisions, 1931 (Isis 16, 

 125), 1942 (Isis 33, 731-32), 1943 (Isis 35, 51-52); reprinted 1949 (Isis 40, 195-97). 



The annual meetings of the HSS take place generally either with the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science or the American Historical Association; 

 in Dec. 1948, the HSS met with the Modern Language Association of America; in 

 1951 it will meet separately in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. 



1931: Groupe Frangais d'Histoire des Sciences. — That group has been constituted 



informally on 13 May 1931, at the address which has remained the same until at 



present 12 rue Colbert, Paris 2. 



Its officers have first been appointed in 1935. Proceedings have appeared in the 

 Revue de synthese, in Thales, and now in the group's organ. Revue d'histoire des 

 sciences. 



The present secretary is Rene Taton, 12 rue Colbert, Paris 2 (Isis 39, 66). 



1933 Comite Beige d'Histoire des Sciences ( Constituted on 10 June 1933 ) . — Reports 

 of their proceedings have sometimes appeared in Isis (29, 410; 32, 129-30; 38, 

 245, etc.). 

 The secretary is Jean Pelseneer, 51 Avenue Winston Churchill, Uccle-Bruxelles. 



1934: Lardomshistoriska Samfundet (Swedish Society for the History of Learning). 



— Founded at Uppsala on 12 May 1934. Publishes an annual volume Lychnos 



(1936) and a collection of books Lychnos-Bibliotek (1936) each of which deals 



with a separate subject. 



Founder and secretary Johan Nordstrom. For an account of the foundation, 

 statutes, charter members etc., see Lychnos (vol. 1, 483-543, 1936). 



Address: Kyrkogardsgatan 25, Uppsala, Sweden. 



This society was and still is the most successful of all the societies devoted to the 

 history of science; its membership was already well over 2,000 in 1936, in spite of the 

 fact that the main language of its publications, Swedish, is httle understood outside of 

 Scandinavia (Isis 26, 177-80). 



