Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Proceedings of the Anaximandrian Society,
- Dates:
- 1935-1945
- Creators:
- Anaximandrian Society, California Institute of Technology
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item, Box and file number], Proceedings of the Anaximandrian Society, Archives, California Institute of Technology.
Background
- Biographical / historical:
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The Anaximandrian Society at Caltech was formed early in 1935 by a group of undergraduates from biology interested in studying the history of physiology. The society continued at least until August, 1945, when the last of its proceedings were distributed.
Details of the founding, membership, and subsequent history of the society may be found in short chronicles bound into each of the eleven volumes containing the proceedings. A few highlights may be mentioned here.
The society was formed originally by five students, to which body two more were elected in the first year. Membership was limited to juniors and seniors. Monthly meetings were held, at which a member would deliver a paper conforming to a predetermined general theme. The theme for the first year was "Early European Physiology to 1700." The society chose its name based on the fact that Anaximander was "the most obscure and ancient physiologist known to the founders." The group met, and continued to do so for most of its life, at the home of Professor Henry Borsook, who appears to have acted as unofficial mentor to the society in its early days.
By the end of the third year it was decided to open the society to graduate students and faculty. Although the society continued during the World War II, its character changed. Borsook was mostly absent, although he returned in the last year. Undergraduate members fell away, leaving a few graduate students with mostly faculty, plus invited visitors, to swell the ranks.
A description of the society may be found in the oral history of Henry Borsook.
- Physical description:
- Linear feet: 1
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1998
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word. Date of source: April 10, 1996.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to the California Institute of Technology Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the California Institute of Technology Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item, Box and file number], Proceedings of the Anaximandrian Society, Archives, California Institute of Technology.
- Location of this collection:
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1200 E. California Blvd.MC B215-74Pasadena, CA 91125, US
- Contact:
- (626) 395-2704