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The library is very rich; though its section on the history of science is a sub- 

 ordinate one, it is very useful, and for many investigations the Warburg Institute 

 is one of the best working places in London. 



Publications: Vortrage, edited by Fritz Saxl, 1921-31 (9 vols. Leipzig 1923-32; 

 Isis 6, 236; 10, 301). 



Studien der BibUothek Warburg, edited by Fritz Saxl (24 vols., Leipzig 

 1922-32). Followed by Studies of the Warburg Institute edited by Fritz Saxl, 

 pubhshed in London since 1936 (16 vols, had appeared by the beginning of 1949). 



Kulturwissenschafthche Bibliographie zum Nachleben der Antike (vol. 1, for 

 the year 1931, Leipzig-London 1934). Vol 2 was published in Enghsh, A bibliog- 

 raphy of the survivals of the classics (London 1938). 



Aby Warbxirg: Gesammelte Schriften. Die Erneuerung der heidnischen Antike, 

 Beitrage zur Geschichte der europaischen Renaissance, edited by Gertrud Bing 

 (2 vols., 745 p., Leipzig 1932; Isis 23, 602). This contains all of Warburg's pub- 

 lished writings. The editor, Dr. Bing, is planning an additional volume which will 

 include a selection of Warburg's letters and notes and a biography. 



Corpus platonicum Medii aevi. Raymond Klibansky: The continuity of the 

 Platonic tradition during the Middle Ages (58 p., 5 pi. 1939; Isis 33, 129). Ray- 

 mond Klibansky: Plato Latinus, vol. 1. Meno (114 p., 1940; Isis 33, 86). Franz 

 Rosenthal and Richard Walzer: Plato Arabus. Vol. 2. Alfarabius (1943; Isis 

 34, 425). 



Journal of the Warburg Institute, edited by Edgar Wind and Rudolf Witt- 

 kower, later called Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes ( 1937, 8 vols, 

 to 1949). 



Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies edited by Richard Hunt and Raymond 

 Klibansky (vol. 1, 1941). 



Annual reports of the Institute are published in pamphlet form. 



— Manchester — 



1781: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (36 George Street): 



The Manchester Society is the oldest scientific society in England, next to the 

 Royal Society. Its beautiful home was destroyed by enemy action on Dec. 24, 

 1940. It contained many relics of John Dalton, Thomas Percival, Charles 

 White, Robert Owen, James Prescott Joule, Sturgeon, Roscoe, Williamson, 

 Balfour Stewart, Osborne Reynolds, Schuster, Horace Lamb, Elliot Smith, 

 Rutherford and others. Most of that has perished. The Dalton collection was 

 especially rich. 



List of articles salvaged (Memoirs and Proceedings of the Society, 1939-41, p. 

 xxxiv-xxxvii ) . 



— Oxford — 



1926: Museum of the History of Science (Old Ashmolean Building, Broad Street): 

 The Ashmolean Museum, the oldest British Museum of Natural History, was 

 founded in 1683 by Elias Ashmole ( 1617-92); the collections having been gathered 

 largely by John Tradescant sr. (d. 1637?) and his son, John Tradescant, jr. 

 ( 1608-62), who published a description of them, Museum Tradescantianum (1656). 

 Robert Theodore Gunther: Early science in Oxford (chiefly vol. 3, Oxford 1925; 

 Isis 8, 375-77); The Old Ashmolean. Prepared for the 250th anniversary of its 

 opening (156 p., Oxford 1933). 



In 1924, the Old Ashmolean was reopened to house the collections relative to the 

 history of science, most of them given to the university by Lewis Evans, others 

 donated by several Oxford colleges. In 1935, the Lewis Evans Collection became 

 the Museum of the History of Science. The first curator was Robert Theodore 

 Gunther (1869-1940), who made considerable use of them for his work Early sci- 

 ence in Oxford (14 vols. Oxford 1920-45; Introd. 3, 1886), and his Astrolabes of 

 the world (2 vols., Oxford 1932; Isis 20, 310-16, 492-95). See also Gunther's 

 Handbook of the Museum of the history of science (162 p., Oxford 1935). Gun- 

 ther has published a series of Old Ashmolean Reprints. 



Gunther's successor as curator of the museum until 1950 was F. Sherwood 



