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For more details, see George Sarton: Qualifications of teachers of the history of 

 science (Isis 37, 5-7, 1947; 40, 311-13, 1949). 



Hendrik Bode, Frederick Mosteller, John Tukey, Charles Winsor: The 

 education of a scientific generalist (Science 109, 553-58, 1949). This article is 

 mentioned as a witness of the need for men of science having a general training in 

 science rather than a special one, but in its tentative program of a curriculum of 

 40 semester courses, the humanities are represented only by two courses in English, 

 and by seven or eight courses which are left undefined under the general label "dis- 

 tribution." As far as the purely scientific instruction is concerned that curriculum 

 would be a very good one for a future historian of science. 



Henry Guerlac: Development and present prospects of the history of science 

 (Report submitted to the 9th International Historical Congress, Paris 1950). 



