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Australasian Association for the History,
Philosophy and Social Studies of Science

Issue No. 48, August 1994 (ISSN 0158 9040)

Edited by Tim Sherratt on behalf of AAHPSSS.


Editor's Note

By now, many of you are probably wondering what is going on. A new look AAHPSSS Newsletter, a new editor, a copy of the History of Australian Science Newsletter - more change than the academic mind can bear! Just settle down, pour yourself a whisky and I'll explain.

Obviously, I've taken over the editorship of this newsletter from Libby Robin. Thanks Libby for all your work over the past few years! I'm head of the Canberra Office of ASAP (Australian Science Archives Project) and am responsible for various ASAP publications, hence the familiarity with desktop publishing technology. This includes the History of Australian Science Newsletter (HASN), which I have edited since 1991.

There has always been some overlap between HASN and the AAHPSSS Newsletter, so when I agreed to take over the latter it was on the understanding that there be some rationalisation of the content. I didn't want to be producing two newsletters with the same stuff in them. So you'll see that HASN contains information on conferences and such like that might normally be found in this publication. Of course that means that AAHPSSS members receive HASN as well as their own newsletter. Aren't you lucky!

The other development is that this newsletter will also be available in plain text and hypertext editions over the Internet. All you need to do is find ASAP's gopher or www sites - details in HASN.

I hope all of these changes can be accomodated within your respective world views. If you have any news, reports, or announcements for the next edition (due in March 1995), please send them to me at the address below (preferably by email or on disk).

Tim Sherratt
ASAP Canberra Office
GPO Box 783
CANBERRA ACT 2601

Tel: +61 2 6257 7985 Fax: +61 2 6257 7986
Email: tim.sherratt@asap.unimelb.edu.au


Published by the AAHPSSS on ASAPWeb, 17 August 1995
Prepared by: Tim Sherratt
Updated by: Elissa Tenkate
Date modified: 8 September 1997

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