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a bibliography of the history of science all over the world from about 1910. The 

 cards fill 72 drawers of the standard size. 



This section was entirely supported by the Carnegie Institution, Harvard provid- 

 ing two rooms in Widener Library for its collections. At the time of Sarton's 

 retirement from the Carnegie Institution an arrangement was made with Harvard 

 University and with the Widener Library making the continuation of Sarton's work 

 possible for a few more years. 



1949: Harvard Museum of the History of Science: 



An exhibition of scientific instrvmients used at Harvard in the eighteenth century 

 and later, was held in the Edward Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory, on Oxford 

 Street, from 12 February 1949 on. 



The exhibition has been arranged by David P. Wheatland, I. Bernard Cohen 

 and Samuel Eliot Morison. It is probably the nucleus of a permanent museum. 



The period covered is 1764-1837. There are no instruments anterior to 1764, 

 for a conflagration occurring in that year destroyed Harvard Hall which included the 

 "philosophical chambers" (where the instruments were kept) as well as the college 

 library. 



Isis (6, 543). David Pingree Wheatland and I. Bernard Cohen: Some early 

 scientific instruments at Harvard University (32 p., ill., Harvard University Press 

 1949). I. B. Cohen: Some early tools of American science. An account of the 

 early scientific instruments and mineralogical and biological collections in Harvard 

 University (222 p., 32 pi., Harvard University Press 1950; Isis 41, 233-34). 



— Chicago, Illinois — 



1933 : Museum of Science and Industry ( 57th Street at Lake Michigan ) : 



Founded by Julius Rosenwald; its exhibits were opened to the public in 1933 

 in the reconstructed Fine Arts Building, an immense palace which had originally 

 been built in stucco for the Chicago Fair of 1893. Total floor area, 14 acres. The 

 Museum was partly inspired by the Deutsches Museum of Munich, e.g., it includes 

 like the latter a coal mine wherein visitors can obtain some idea of what a real mine 

 is and how it functions. It is a museum of science rather than of the history of 

 science, yet many exhibits are ( or will be ) of historical interest. 



The organizer and first director of the Museum was Waldemar Bernhard 

 Kaempffert, author of A popular history of American invention (2 vols.. New York 

 1924; improved German translation Berlin 1927; Isis 11, 533). Kaempffert de- 

 nied the imitation of the Deutsches Museum and claimed that the Chicago museum 

 was the development of new ideas. See his paper Revealing the technical ascent 

 of man in the Rosenwald Industrial Museum ( Scientific Monthly 28, 481-98, 10 ill., 

 1929). 



No pubhcations except a short guide (Exhibit finder, 16 p.) for visitors. 



1930: Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum (Chicago Park District): 



The building specially made to accommodate a planetarium made in Jena ( the first 

 of its kind in America) and given by Max Adler, was opened to the public on 12 

 May 1930. It includes in the rooms around and below the planetarium, a large 

 collection of astronomical instruments which was brought together and described by 

 Philip Fox (1878-1944). See the Brief guide prepared by him 4th ed., 64 p., ill., 

 Chicago, Sept. 1937; Isis 34, 450). 



Of course, collections of astrolabes, ancient telescopes and other instruments, old 

 books, may be found in many observatories, such as the Harvard Observatory in 

 Cambridge, Mass., or the Library of the Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, Calif., 

 or in other planetariums such as the one attached to the American Museum of Natural 

 History, in New York (like every great museum of natural history, the American 

 Museum contains a good many historical exhibits). 



— Cincinnati, Ohio — 



Lloyd Library and Museum (309 West Court St., Cincinnati 2): 



These collections were begun in 1864 by the two brothers, John Uri Lloyd 

 (1849-1936) and Curtis Gates Lloyd. 



