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TRANSACTIONS & MEMOIRS & PROCEEDINGS
Mary Pat McPherson, Executive Officer
Mary C. McDonald, Editor
Susan M. Babbitt, Associate Editor

The Publications Department of the American Philosophical Society continues to maintain the reputation for scholarly excellence that began with Benjamin Franklin and the publication of the first Transactions in 1771.

This first series recorded Society activities, elections, deaths, etc., and reported on scholarly research in various disciplines in the humanities and sciences. Early publications included the findings of David Rittenhouse and the Transit of Venus.

Today the Transactions is a highly respected series of monographs, five of which are currently published each year. Titles printed in 2008 include:

Alhacen on Image-Formation and Distortion in Mirrors: A Critical Edition, with English Translation and Commentary, of Book 6 of Alhacen’s De Aspectibus, the Medieval Latin Version of Ibn al-Haytham’s Kitab al-Manazir,
by A. Mark Smith
Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University, 1906,
by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt (WINNER OF THE 2008 J. F. LEWIS AWARD)
Raising Kane: Elisha Kent Kane and the Culture of Fame in Antebellum America,
by Mark Metzler Sawin
Sophie de Grouchy, Letters on Sympathy (1798): A Critical Edition,
by Karin Brown; letters translated by James E. McClellan
The Long Route to the Invention of the Telescope,
by Rolf Willach
The Invention of the Telescope,
by Albert van Helden (reprint of the classic study from 1977)

A second series of books was started in 1937 with the first volume of the Memoirs, books of various lengths in many scholarly disciplines. Recent publications include:

Alexander the Great: Coinage, Finances, and Policy,
by George Le Rider (translated by W. E. Higgins, with a preface by G. W. Bowersock)
Polar Hayes: The Life and Contributions of Isaac Israel Hayes, M.D.,
by Douglas Wamsley
Peter Collinson and the Eighteenth-Century Natural History Exchange,
by Jean O’Neill and Elizabeth P. McLean

The Society also publishes a quarterly journal, the Proceedings (1838). Articles in the journal include papers read at the Society's biannual meetings, independent essays sent to the APS by outside scholars, and biographical memoirs of Society members. Selected papers are available online.

A Yearbook is published annually and includes a listing of resident and international members, the President's Annual Message, and the Report of the Executive Officer. It is available to the members of the American Philosophical Society on the Members Only website.

Previous volumes of our Transactions and Proceedings are now available to scholars through JSTOR, an online library archive (www.jstor.org). We are a part of the Arts and Sciences Complement IV group. Volumes are archived with a six-year window; currently titles through 2000 are available. Also, several of our more-popular Transactions and Memoirs titles that were out of print are available for on-demand printing through Lightning Source (www.lightningsource.com).

Manuscripts are accepted for review by the Committee on Publications which meets in February, June, and October. All manuscripts (Proceedings, Transactions, Memoirs) are reviewed by at least two qualified scholars; see the APS stylesheet for further information.

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