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This single, text-only page lists information about the Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group and its members. A roster of officers heads the page, and a program of its semi-annual meeting follows. At the bottom there is a list of about 20 links to interesting sites in the history of chemistry (and more broadly, science) worldwide and a table of contents for the most recent issue of the Historical Group newsletter (as well as a link to the back issues to 1996). In addition, the site contains a link to a long list of paragraph biographies of chemists, mostly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This is an in-depth site with excerpts and full text works in the history of chemistry, including works by Francis Bacon, Niels Bohr, Robert Boyle, John Dalton, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Michael Faraday, Antoine Lavoisier, Dmitrii Mendeleev, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Priestley, and Ernest Rutherford among many others. Also included are links to brief biographies of many key chemists. The site has a search engine, it also allows for easy navigation alphabetically or by subject matter within chemistry (i.e. biochemistry). The site also includes a glossary of chemical terms, a calendar of important events in the history of chemistry and links to related pages.

The History of Technology Research Unit is located in the School of Conservation Sciences at Bournemouth University. This site is particularly interesting for its collection and presentation of the oral history of technology in the twentieth century. The authors had an ongoing project on the history of military electronics, and had conducted dozens of interviews on various consumer and industrial technologies which changed the lives of many in the last century. An online entry form allows visitors to record their own memories of using twentieth-century technologies such as the washing machine and television. The site also contains a geographical map of museums dedicated to preserving old machines and technologies.

The United States National Library of Medicine is located in Bethesda at the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health. This site lists about 20 exhibits, past and present, that have been displayed at the library and/or have online components. Many of these exhibits are outstanding, providing both scholars in the history of medicine and the general public interested in medical history with an array of images and texts relating to topics such as the study of stress, medieval Islamic medical books, and Frankenstein. The site also has links to other sites on the history of medicine at the NIH, and a list of public (offline) seminars in the history of medicine.

This text-only site contains mostly administrative and publication information, such as how to join the Division of History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and a roster of officers. Most notable for scholars are the tables of contents of the Bulletin for the History of Chemistry going back to 1988. There are also lists of those who have received awards for their historical scholarship from the American Chemical Society, and a list of about a dozen links to other sites on the history of chemisty and the history of science in general. The site also allows visitors to examine the titles of papers and symposia at upcoming meetings of the ACS.

This is the home page for Oxford University's Museum of the History of Science. An overview provides a sense of the museum's collection, and a paragraph describes its history (and the history of the building it is housed in) since 1683. There are seven excellent online exhibits with numerous graphics and photographs, including pieces on the history of photography, mathematics and astronomy. All are composed for a lay audience. For researchers, a remarkable searchable database of over 13,000 objects allows visitors to find and view artifacts in the museum's collection. These objects span the entire history of science and technology, and many of them are extremely rare. Another section of the site features some of the best portraits, instruments and illustrations in the archive.

This is a relatively new association with a growing membership. The Association's site has a list of the members of the organization and a back list of newsletters, most of them reprinted online. A form allows prospective members to join. Most significant for non-members and researchers in the history of mining is a fairly exhaustive 1998 bibliography of Australian mining history. There are general references as well as more specific references for the different regions of Australia.

Collection of biographies of women mathematicians, searchable and browsable alphabetically or chronologically. Biographies are brief, and often contain photos or drawings, as well as links to interviews or other related online resources. There is also a listing of a number of sites about women in the sciences.

This site is essentially a set of links to materials of interest to members of the British Society for the History of Science. Approximately 20 links cover the publications of the organization, including a newsletter, monographs and the British Journal for the History of Science, three prizes given by the group, special offers for members, and notes about its membership and administration. There are also educational links, including a list of courses offered on the history of science in British universities, policy papers and methodological statements for teachers of the history of science, and lists of other sites that cover the history of science.