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E. N. Harvey, A Histoy ofEuminescence, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pa., 1957. 

Harvey, E. N. (1957). A Histoiy of Luminescence from the Eai Iiest times Until 1900. Philadelphia American Philosophical Society. 

Schallenberg, R. IT. (1982). Bottled Energy Electrical Engineering and the Evolution of Chemical Energy Storage. Philadelphia, PA American Philosophical Society. 

R. H. Scballembcrg, Bottled Energy, American Philosophical Society, Memoirs Series, Vol. 148, G. H. Buchanan, Philadelphia, PA, 1982, p. 58. 

Harvey, E.N. A History of Luminescence From the Earliest Times Until 1900 American Philosophical Society Philadelphia, 1957 p 692. 

Mappae Clavicula (trans. C.S. Smith, J.G. Hawthorne). Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 64 (1974) 3-128. Translated by C.S. Smith and J.G. Hawthorne. 

Gruman, Gerald J. A history of ideas about the prolongation of life. American Philosophical Society, 1966. 

Schuler, Robert M. Francis Bacon and scientific poetry. Philadelphia (PA) American Philosophical Society, 1982. 65p. ISBN 0871698226... 

James Franck. Taped interview with Maria Goeppert Mayer and Herta Sponer. July 12, 1962. American Philosophical Society Library. Source for quotation about discussions with Haber. 

David A. Hounshell. Interpreting the History of Industrial Research and Development The Case of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Co. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 134 (Dec. 1990) 387-407. Source for Thome s saving Carothers papers. 

Harvey E.N., A History of Luminescence, The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1957. 

Ronald Breslow (Co-Chair) is University Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University, and a founder of a new pharmaceutical company. He received his B.A. (1952), M.A. (1954), and Ph.D. (1955) from Harvard University. His research area is organic chemistry with specialization in biochemical model systems, biomimetic synthetic methods, reaction mechanisms, and aromaticity and antiaromaticity. He served as president of the American Chemical Society in 1996 and has authored a book for the general public, Chemistry Today and Tomorrow The Central, Useful, and Creative Science. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He received the U.S. National Medal of Science in 1991. 

Bass, G.F. (1967). Cape Gelidonya a Bronze Age shipwreck. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 78 1-177. 

Geison, "Scientific Change." J. S. Fruton, "Contrasts in Scientific Style Emil Fischer and Franz Hofmeister, Their Research Schools and Their Theories of Protein Structure," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 129 (1985) 313370 also see, Fruton, "The Liebig Research Group, a Reappraisal," ibid., 132 (1988) 166 Holmes, "Complementarity," 121164 and J. B. Morrell, "The Chemist Breeders ... 

Fruton, Joseph S. "Contrasts in Scientific Style Emil Fischer and Franz Hofmeister Their Research Schools and Their Theories of Protein Structure." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 129 (1985) 313370. 

He is the author of 63 books and monographs, 28 bulletins, 304 chapters in books, 615 journal articles, 309 abstracts, and 137 editorials, book reviews, and congressional testimonies. Cairns has been awarded a number of honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Linnean Society of London. He has been awarded the United Stations Environmental Programme Medal, the B. Y. Morrison Medal of the American Chemical Society, the Life Achievement Award in Science of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Superior Achievement Award of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 

In 1785, nine years before his arrival in the United States, Priesdey had been elected to foreign membership m the American Philosophical Society. His famous chemical researches carried out in England were often discussed m early meetings of that Society (67). After his arrival in Pennsylvania Priestley participated actively in the affairs of the... 

Don Andres Manuel del Rio, 1764—1849. Professor of mineralogy, French, and Spanish at the School of Mines of Mexico. Member of the American Philosophical Society. He discovered the element vanadiuiii (erythro-nium), but later confused it with chromium. This portrait belongs to the school of mines of Mexico. 

Hatchett fused the ore with potassium carbonate. When he took up the melt with boiling water, a brown residue remained. When nitric acid was added to the yellow filtrate, a copious white precipitate was thrown down. The preceding experiments shew, said he, that the ore which has been analyzed consists of iron combined with an unknown substance and that the latter constitutes more than three fourths of the whole. This substance is proved to be of a metallic nature by the coloured precipitates which it forms with prussiate of potash and with tincture of galls by the effects which zinc produces when immersed in the acid solutions and by the colour which it communicates. .. to concrete phosphoric acid, when melted with it. . . . He mentioned that it retained oxygen tenaciously and that the oxide was acidic. Although the specimen Hatchett analyzed was very small, he hoped to get more soon from a gentleman now in England (Mr. Smith, Secretary to the American Philosophical Society). This was evidently Thomas P. Smith, who died in 1802 (53). 

The author wishes to thank Dr. C. A. Browne and Mr. Allyn B. Forbes for kindly placing at her disposal their correspondence on the history of columbite, and Mrs. Gertrude D. Hess for examining the papers which Thomas P. Smith bequeathed to the American Philosophical Society. 

Del Rio belonged to many scientific organizations of France, Germany, Great Britain, Mexico, and Spain, and was an active member of the American Philosophical Society and president of the Geological Society of Philadelphia. From 1830 to 1834 he attended the meetings of the American Philosophical Society, took part in the discussions, donated books which are still in possession of the Society s library, and presented papers for publication. 

It is a pleasure to acknowledge the kind assistance of Miss Eva Armstrong of the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Library, the library of the American Philosophical Society, Dr. E. Moles and Sefior A. de Galvez-Caiiero of Madrid, and Dr. F. B. Dains. 

He founded the American Philosophical Society and developed some fertilizers (Ref 2) Refs 1) C.E. Munroe, " Benjamin Franklin s Unheralded Achievement , Explosives Engineer 3i, 115-18(1925) 2) Hackh s Diet (1944), 355-R... 

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Doctors tended to be enthusiastic about the powers of opium and to minimize its negative effects. In 1868, George Wood, a noted medical professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the president of the American Philosophical Society, described opium s pharmacological effects as follows ... 

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