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John Neu

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George Sarton

|. Bernard Cohen
Harry Woolf

Robert P. Multhauf

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John G. Burke

Ruth Schwartz Cowan
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INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ‘THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND ITS CULTURAL INFLUENCES
FOUNDED IN 1912 IN BELGIUM BY GEORGE SARTON

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27 March 1980

Dr. Joshua Lederberg, President
Rockefeller University

1230 York Avenue

New York, NY 10021

Dear Josh:

I would like to see a review of Scientometrics in Isis, to alert our
readers to the growing importance of work in this field.

Would you be willing to write such a review? Our standard reviews wet
limited to 700 words but, should you feel so inclined, the subject
might well warrant an essay review (1500 to 2000 words).

Among questions you might like to discuss briefly are the aims and
ambitions of this new journal, the possibilities of and limitations in
quantitative study of science, and your personal hopes for the whole

enterprise. Obviously, the review should connect with the interests

and concerns of historians on the one side, and scientists on the
other.

In hope of tempting you,

AS ever,

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