"Isis"

The history of science is becoming a science in itself. Many great scholars are nowadays devoting their main interest to it. There are chairs in this field at several leading universities. Section L of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is set apart for science historians.

Now a group of these men are seeking to organize a national professional association of science historians. The immediate occasion for this move is the precarious financial condition of Isis, an international magazine specializing in the history of science, edited for several years past by Dr. George Sarton. The sale for such a magazine is, of course, limited; Isis is in danger of having to discontinue. The aim is to make it the official journal of the new society and send it free to members on payment of $5 dues. The proposed organization will provide a meeting-ground for scientists, historians, philosophers, writers, representatives of special groups like archeologists and medical men who have been writing independently. Dr. David E. Smith, professor of mathematics at Teachers' College, Columbia University, is in charge of the preliminary organization.