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Note that the Swedish Society is devoted to the history of learning, but that is 

 made to include science (like the German word die Wissenschaft ) . The Swedish 

 society is a group of the Academic since 1936. 



1937: Grupo Portugues da Historia das Ciencias (Portuguese Group of the History 

 of Science, founded in 1937). — It publishes the review Petrus Nonius (q.v.). 

 The national grupo or society has sections in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra. 

 Secretary, Dr. Carlos Teixeira, Faculdade de Ciencias, Lisboa. 



1941: Japanese Society for the History of Science. — Founded on 22 April 1941 

 (Isis 33, 338). The title and address are not known to me. 



The society published Studies in the history of science, in Japanese (Isis 40, 160; 

 41, 197). 



1947: British Society for the History of Science. — Constituted in London, 12 Feb. 



1947. 



Secretary: F. H. C. Butler, 10 Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London 

 S. W. 7 (Isis 37, 182; 38, 102). 



The Society pubUshes a Bulletin, vol. 1, no. 1, January 1949, Vol. 1, no. 4, 

 October 1950. 



Summary — The eleven earliest national societies (or groups) *: 



7. « Belgium 1933 

 6. • France 1931 



1. Germany 1901 



11. Great Britain 1947 



2. Italy 1907 

 10. Japan 1941 



3. The Netherlands 1913 

 9. » Portugal 1937 



8. Sweden 1934 



4. Switzerland 1922 



5. United States 1924 



After the establishment of the Academic internationale d'histoire des sciences in 

 1928, various national groups were constituted in order to satisfy the academy's 

 regulations and make possible the nomination of members belonging to their nation. 

 The French, Belgian and Portuguese groups mentioned above were constituted, re- 

 spectively in 1931, 1933, 1937 for that very purpose. It is not necessary to speak 

 now of other national groups for the majority of those groups have only a derivative 

 academic function and their proceedings are practically unknown to the rest of the 

 world. The Academy will be described in the following chapter, and the national 

 groups related to it will then be enumerated. 



Some national societies (whether founded before 1928 or after) are identified 

 with national groups of the Academy, others are not. 



Some national societies are identified with a section of the national scientific 

 societies, others are not; their mutual connections vary from case to case. The con- 

 nection is closest in the German case; it is loose in the case of the History of Science 

 Society. There is no need of worrying our readers with such details which concern 

 the administrative history of each society (or each group) and have no influence on 

 the progress of learning. 



Alphabetical list of a few other national societies: — 



1927: American Association of the History of Medicine. — 22n<i annual meeting, 

 Lexington, Kentucky, May 1949. See Bull, of the History of Medicine, vol. 22, 

 837, 1949. Previous meetings have been reviewed in the same journal. 



1937: Chinese Medical History Society. — The Society was organized in Shanghai 



during a conference of the Chinese Medical Association in April 1937 (Isis 34, 



28). President (in 1948), Dr. K. Chimin Wong. 



Pubhshes the Chinese Journal of medical history (q.v.). See Archives (30, 843- 

 46, 1951). 



Address (Jan. 1949): 41 Tzeki Road, Shanghai 9. 



1926: Gesellschaft fiir Geschichte der Pharmazie. — Founded in Innsbruck (Austria) 

 on 18 August 1926 to serve as an international center for the history of pharmacy; 

 estabhshed in Berlin. 

 The organization is described in Mitteilungen (25, 342, 1926). The society has 



