Notes and Queries
The Western Reserve Historical Society
is sponsoring a Bicentennial Con-
ference of American Genealogy and Family
History, August 8-12, 1976. The
conference will center on the people and
records of the American Revolution,
migrations to and within the United
States following the Revolution, the prep-
aration and printing or publishing of
genealogical material, and the nature and
use of some major genealogical
collections and family history studies in Ameri-
can universities. For further
information you are asked to contact Mr. John
Larger, Jr., The Western Reserve
Historical Society, 10825 East Boulevard,
Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
The Society for Industrial Archeology
announces publication of a new
semi-annual journal, IA. IA will
feature scholarly papers on a wide range of
subjects dealing with our industrial and
engineering past. Special emphasis will
be given to structures and sites in
North America. In addition to full-length
papers, IA will also contain
Omnibus and Book Review sections, together with
discussion of previously published
papers. The journal will be profusely illus-
trated and published in a large (81/2 x
11 inches) format. The editor is Prof.
Emory L. Kemp, Department of Civil
Engineering, West Virginia University.
IA is included
with membership in the Society for Industrial Archeology.
A comprehensive edition of the letters
of Charles Darwin is being planned
with the sponsorship of the American
Council of Learned Societies and with
support from the National Endowment for
the Humanities and the National
Science Foundation. The edition will be
arranged in chronological order with
full texts and annotations, and will
include letters to Darwin as well as those
from him. Frederick Burkhardt, President
Emeritus of the American Council
of Learned Societies, and Sydney Smith,
Fellow and Tutor of St. Catharine's
College and University Lecturer in
Zoology, University of Cambridge, are
Co-Editors of the Collected Letters.
It is hoped that librarians, collectors,
scholars, antiquarian book-sellers, and
others with knowledge of Darwiniana will
contact Dr. Burkhardt at R.F.D. 1,
Bennington, Vermont 05201.
The third annual Carl Becker Memorial
Lecture, sponsored by the Depart-
ment of History at the University of
Northern Iowa, is scheduled to be held on
September 29, 1976. Jack Greene will
deliver the lecture which is entitled "The
American Revolution: An
Explanation." For further information write Alvin
R. Sunseri, Department of History,
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls,
IA 50613.
Thurberists will be interested in
learning that Men, Women and Dogs has
been reprinted with a new introduction
by Dodd, Mead and Company ($8.95).
Originally published in 1943, the work
contains over two hundred pages of
James Thurber's best-loved cartoons and
drawings, including such series as
"The Masculine Approach" and
"The War Between Men and Women."