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Open-air Museums.— See the letter of Dr. Jean Anker, printed below under 

 "Norway." 



FRANCE 



— Dole, ]vha — 



Maison natale de Pasteur: 



The house where Louis Pasteur was born on 27 Dec. 1822 is now a national 

 museum. 



Illustrations of it may be found in Pasteur Vallery-Radot: Pasteur. Images 

 de sa vie (Paris 1947; Isis 39, 99). 



— Lyon — 



Bibliotheque et musee d'histoire de la medecine: 



Organized by Prof. Jules Guiart at the University of Lyon. 



Jules Guiart: L'Ecole medicale lyonnaise. Catalogue commente de la section 

 regionale du musee historique de la Faculte mixte de medecine et de pharmacie de 

 Lvon^'"' (Annales de I'Universite de Lyon, 3. series, medecine, fasc. 2, 272 p., 16 

 pi., Paris 1941). 



— Paris — 



1925: Centre international de synthese, "Pour la science." 



Created by Henri Berr, who 25 years earher had founded the Revue de Synthese 

 historique. For a history of both undertakings see vol. 26 ( 67 ) of that Revue pub- 

 hshed in Paris 1950. The Centre is located 12 rue Colbert, Paris 2 (close to the 

 Bibliotheque Nationale ) . 



1928: Academic internationale d'histoire des sciences, for which see chapter 22. 



The Academic is located 12 rue Colbert, Paris 2. 



The Academic and Centre have close connections; reports of both were published 

 in Archeion (vol. 9, 497-512, 1928; vol. 11, 22 p., 1929, vol. 12, 368-89, 1930, etc.). 

 At present reports of the Centre appear regularly in the Revue de synthese, those of 

 the Academic in the Archives Internationales d'histoire des sciences. 



Institut d'histoire des sciences et des techniques ( 13 rue du Four, Paris 6) : 



Estabhshed as a part of the University of Paris. The first director was Abel 



Rey; the second Gaston Bachelard. 

 It publishes Thales (5 vols. 1934-48). 



1794: Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers (rue Reaumur): 



Museum created by the Convention nationale on 19 vendemiaire an III ( 10 Oct. 

 1794), the earhest collection of its kind and size in the world. It should be noted, 

 however, that the purpose was less historical than educational. It realized Des- 

 cartes' views that students of science and artisans should be able to see instruments 

 and mechanical objects ( This was even more necessary in the seventeenth and eight- 

 eenth centuries than it is today, because graphic illustrations were less abundant 

 and less cheap than they are now). The confusion of purposes is perhaps unavoid- 

 able and exists to this day in every museum of science and industry : these museums 

 are often historical "par la force des choses" but the main purpose of the organizers 

 is generally to popularize science, to familiarize the pubUc with its tools and methods, 

 and to lire the enthusiasm of potential inventors and future men of science. At any 

 rate, every scientific collection, whichever be its purpose, obtains more and more 

 historical value as time passes. 



On 26 floreal an VI ( 15 May 1798) the Conseil des Cinq-Cents set aside a large 

 part of the priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs for the Conservatoire. 



The early organizers of the Conservatoire were Jacques de Vaucanson ( 1709- 

 82), Charles Auguste Vandermonde (1735-96), Nicolas Jacques Conte (1755- 

 1805), Joseph Michel Montgolfier (1740-1810), Francois Emmanuel Molard 

 (1774-1829). The first Catalogue des Collections du Conservatoire was pubUshed 



107a What a titlel 



