Scientific Societies in the United States.

New York:: John Wiley & Sons, 1945., 1945. 8vo. vii, [1], 146 pp. Index. Blue-stamped grey cloth; paper label affixed to spine. Embossed stamp of Carnegie Institution [HALE]. Very good. First edition. "When it was first published just twenty-five years ago, Bate's history of the organization of scientific activity in the United States represented one of few sources to which the historian or historically minded scientist might turn in an effort to discover the sources of the seeming scientific miracles wrought during the Second World War." The British Journal for the History of Science, 1965 for the third edition.