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The great interest shown in the United States in the history of science is to find a further expression in the inauguration towards the end of this year of an annual publication on historical chemistry, entitled Chymia. It is anticipated that each volume will contain about a dozen articles of some four to five thousand words each, written in various languages and contributed by leading authorities from all over the world. It is appropriate that Chymia should be sponsored by the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection at the University of Pennsylvania, for it was in this University that the first American chair of chemistry was established in 1769, in the Colonial period, and filled by Benjamin Rush, one of Joseph Black's earliest pupils at Edinburgh. The editor-in-chief of Chymia is Prof. Tenney L. Davis, with a board of five other American editors and a group of consulting editors of international repute, representing, to date, the United States, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Holland, Germany, the Argentine, Brazil and China. The British contributors to the first volume are Prof. J. R. Partington, Prof. John Read and Dr. F. Sherwood, Taylor. The secretary of the editorial board is Miss Eva V. Armstrong, curator of the Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia. Publication in Britain will be undertaken by the Oxford University Press.
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Chymia. Nature 160, 292 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160292c0
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