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104th St.) and the Museum of the New York Historical Society (Central Park W., 

 between 76 and 77th Sts.). Some of the Massachusetts Museums illustrate maritime 

 industries and fishing. For example, the Peabody Museimi in Salem, and the two 

 whaling museums of New Bedford and of Nantucket (see Isis 16, 115-23, 1931). 

 We may refer again to the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia to which 

 a separate note is devoted above. 



HISTORICAL HOUSES OF INTEREST 

 TO THE HISTORIAN OF SCIENCE 



The only houses hsted below are those open to the public and including collec- 

 tions or at least a few memorabilia. All of them, except Bartram, are hsted 

 among a great many others (some 400) which do not concern the historian of 

 science in L. V. Coleman: Historic House Museums (Washington, D. C. 1933); 

 the account of each house in Coleman's book is far too meager. 



The houses are listed in the alphabetic order of their localities. 



Fredericksburg, Virginia: 



Mercer Apothecary shop (c. 1750). 



Greenfield Village, Michigan: 



The Menlo Park group of houses, moved from Menlo Park, New Jersey. Edi- 

 son's Laboratory, Edison's Office Library, carbon shed, carpenter shop, glass house, 

 machine shop. 



Edison's Fort Myers Laboratory (moved from Fort Myers, Florida). For other 

 Edison memorabilia see West Orange. 



Sandwich Glass Plant. 



Village blacksmith shop, etc. 



Ford's shop (moved from Detroit). 



Steintvietz cottage ( moved from Schenectady, N. Y. ) . 



The whole of Greenfield Village, which includes many American houses and 

 two English ones, was developed by Henry Ford. It is a very large open-air 

 museum, hke the Scandinavian museums briefly described by Dr. Jean Anker, 

 above, in the section devoted to Norway. 



Hastings-on-Hudson, New York: 



Observatory Cottage of Henry Draper (1837-82). 



Mitchell, Indiana: 



Apothecary shop of c. 1830. 



Nantucket, Massachusetts: 



Birthplace of Maria Mitchell (1818-89), astronomer. 



Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 



House of the botanist, John Bartram (1699-1777), in Bartram's garden on 

 the W. bank of the Schuylkill. 



West Orange, New Jersey: 



The old Edison laboratory, organized some time after the death of Thomas 

 Alva Edison (1847-1931). 



Wohurn, Massachusetts: 



Birthplace of Benjamin Thompson, count Rumford (1753-1814). 



OTHER TECHNICAL MUSEUMS 



F. M. Feldhaus published in Archeion (11, 348-357, 1927) a short list of 46 

 technical museums, many of which do not exist any more, and are represented only 

 by old catalogues or references in literature. For example, the museum of the 

 Jesuit father Athanasius KmcHER is known through the catalogue of Father Filippo 

 Buonanni, Musaeum Kircherianum (Rome 1709), the collection of Nicolas 



