264 ^ Institutes, Museums, Libraries 



CHINA 



— Shanghai — 



Medical History Museum: 



Organized by the Chinese Medical History Society; opened in 1938. K. C. Wong 

 (Arch, internat. hist, of science 1949, 2, 545-51; 1951, 4, 845). 



CZECHOSLOVAKIA 



— Prague — 



Technical Museum: 



This museum includes historical exhibits, notably the reconstruction of an alchemi- 

 cal laboratory of the sixteenth century and many objects illustrating the history of 

 geography, geodesy, mining, technology, arts and crafts. The alchemical labora- 

 tory was briefly described and illustrated in Svetozor (cislo 14, rocnik XIV, Praha 

 1914?). 



Professor Q. Vetter wrote to me (Praha, 26 Oct. 1949) that there are museums 

 in almost every city of Czechoslovakia, and that almost every one of those museums 

 includes objects which may interest historians of science. He kindly wrote again 

 (Praha, 6 January 1950), after having obtained the help of the Svaz ceskych musei 

 ( union of Czech museums ) which circulated my queries among its members. This 

 enabled him to send me a list of some sixty regional museums, which contain exhibits 

 which would interest historians of science. It is not possible to print the list here, 

 because it would take too much space and because I could not do for Czechoslovakia 

 what I did not do for other countries (similar hsts for the United States would fill 

 a good sized volume, see the publications by L. V. Coleman quoted below). 



Dr. Vetter's list includes collections concerning the history of mining (Banska 

 Stiavnice, Slova; Kutna Hora, Boh.; Ostraya, Mor.; Stfibro, Boh.), the history of 

 pharmacy and medicine (Benesov u Prahy; Bojkovice, Mor.; Klatovy, Boh.; Polna, 

 Boh.; Praha, Narodni museum; Prostejov, Boh.; Znojmo, Mor.); the history of astron- 

 omy, physics and mathematics (Duchcov, Boh.; Plzen, Boh.; Praha, Observatory; 

 Praha, Library of the Strahov monastery; Tepla, Boh.; Vyssi Brod, Boh.), the history 

 of cartography (Praha, University Library). There are also in Czechoslovakia many 

 exhibits or museums illustrating regional arts, crafts, and industries; some are the 

 equivalent of the American "company museums" and were probably such at the 

 beginning even if they have now become national or municipal responsibihties. 



In addition to his letter. Dr. Vetter also sent me a few printed catalogues. 



Institute of the History of Medicine: 



Including library and collection of portraits. 



Medical Museum: 



Collects documents and objects concerning the history of medicine in Czechoslo- 

 vakia, and a medico-numismatic collection. 



Museum of Pharmacology: 



Collection of old apothecary shops attached to the Purkine Institute. 



DENMARK 



— Copenhagen — 



Medico-historical Museum: 



This museum was founded in 1907 as a private institution; it became a university 

 institute in 1918. It collects everything concerning medical history. The main col- 

 lections are ( 1 ) surgery, ( 2 ) X-ray, ( 3 ) pharmacy, ( 4 ) dentistry, ( 5 ) library. 

 There is no printed catalogue. 



The museum is estabhshed in the old Royal Academy of Surgery, founded in 1785 

 and abolished in 1942. 



Ida Rich in Sudhoff's Archiv (31, 61, 1938). 



This information was given to me by Dr. Edv. Gotfredsen, historian of medicine, 

 in his kind letter dated Copenhagen, 20 Feb. 1949. 



