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Royal Irish Academy National Committee for the History of Irish Science MEETING The History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Ireland Date: Friday 14th March 2008 Venue: M4 Lecture Theatre, Museum Building, Trinity College, Dublin Intending delegates: If you wish to attend the meeting please notify Juliana Adelman by e-mail ([log in to unmask]). Registration fee: €10 (lunch and coffee provided). PROGRAMME 9:30 Registration. Foyer, Museum Building, TCD (€10 per delegate) 10:00 Welcome: Patrick Wyse Jackson Session 1: Lives in science and medicine Chair: Patrick Wyse Jackson 10:15-11:15 Fiona Clark (Queen's University, Belfast): 'Advancing the medical career in colonial Latin America' Tadgh O'Sullivan (University of Liverpool): 'The fortunes of an Irish savant: the Rev. Dr William Richardson' Laura Kelly (National University of Ireland, Galway): 'Irish medical students at the University of Glasgow, 1859-1900' 11:15 Coffee Session 2: Communicating science Chair: Dáibhí ó Cróinín 11:45-12:45 Elizabethanne Boran (Edward Worth Library, Dr Steevens' Hospital, Dublin): 'A Cloud of Witnesses': scientific observation in the correspondence of James Ussher. Miguel DeArce (Trinity College Dublin): 'Darwin's Irish correspondence and James Torbitt's project to breed blight-resistant potatoes.' Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory): 'Developing an integrated digital repository for the history of science, technology and medicine related materials in Ireland.' 12:45 Lunch (Lunch is provided; cost is included in registration fee) Session 3: Science in the community Chair: Juliana Adelman 2:00-3:00 Tony Hand (Trinity College Dublin): 'From Kilkenny to Armagh: an account of the Kilkenny Marble Works in the papers of the Physico-Historical Society' Marie Bourke (National Gallery of Ireland): 'How a number of Irish museums that include scientific collections have developed from the late 18th century' Ruth Bayles (Queen's University, Belfast): 'Belfast Botanic Gardens' 3:00 Coffee Session 4: Medical practice and disease Chair: Clive Lee 3:30-4:30 Ian Miller (University of Manchester): 'The Irish stomach: abdominal illness in the early 19th century' Catherine Cox (University College Dublin): 'The medical marketplace and medical tradition: interfaces between orthodox, alternative and folk practice in 19th-century Ireland' Ida Milne (Trinity College Dublin): 'The 1918/1919 Spanish influenza pandemic: a 'mystery malady' comes to Ireland' 4:30 Summative remarks: Peter Bowler