News and Notes
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American Philosophical Society acquires Fitch Papers and Bonner Papers
June 12, 2012
The following collections have been acquired in 2011.
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New Chemical Industry Collections at the Chemical Heritage Foundation
June 12, 2012
The Chemical Heritage Foundation acquired 50 linear feet of Hercules records from Ashland, Inc. in March 2012.
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Andean Afterlives: the Hemispheric Circulation of the Pre-Columbian Dead and Peruvianist Anthropology, 1780-1948
June 12, 2012
Christopher Heaney, University of Texas at Austin
2011 to 2012 Research Fellow -
Bridging the Disjunction: Asa Gray and the Botanical Exchanges between East Asia and North America
May 24, 2012
Kuang-chi Hung, Harvard University
2010 to 2011 Research Fellow -
The Salubrious Sea: Marine Hospitals, the Environment, and the Health of American Urban Children, 1870-1930.
April 3, 2012
Meghan Crnic, University of Pennsylvania
2011 to 2012 Research Fellow -
Postdoctoral Fellowship 2012-2014
March 8, 2012
The Center now offers a Postdoctoral Fellowship for students of history of science, technology and medicine.
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Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740-1830
February 21, 2012
Susan Brandt, Temple University
2011 to 2012 Research Fellow -
Images from the Wagner Free Institute of Science
February 7, 2012
As you navigate our website, you may notice new images appearing on the right. We just received a batch of wonderful images for our site from the Wagner Free Institute of Science.
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"Experiment and Good Sense Must Direct You": the Social Relations of Health, Healing and Knowledge-Making in Eighteenth-Century Plantation America.
January 19, 2012
Claire Gherini, Johns Hopkins University
2011 to 2012 Research Fellow -
Call for Papers: 47th Annual Joint Atlantic Seminar
December 13, 2011
The 47th Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology will be held at the University of Pennsylvania, beginning with an opening reception and plenary the evening of Friday April 20th, f