CONTACT NOTES
—The 20th anniversary meeting of the Business History Conference was held in Wilmington, Delaware, March 1-2. The 1975 meeting will be in Evanston, Illinois during the last week of February. For more information about this group, write Prof. Fred Bateman, Dept. of Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47401.
—The American Institute of Decision Sciences (Southeast Chapter) will establish an archives and appoint a curator/historian. For information contact Professor Thad Green, Mississippi State University.
—Ron G. Dryen is convener of The Accounting History Committee of The Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand. Consult your Academy list for his address to inquire for more in formation about this group.
—The Scottish Committee on Accounting History (R. Parker, convener) may be contacted through Miss Anna B. G. Dunlop, As-sistant Secretary, c/o The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, 27 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1LA.
—The English Accountants’ Historical Society’s activities can be determined by writing M. W. E. Glautier, Senior Lecturer in Ac-counting, Dept. of Economics, University College of North Wales, Bangor LL57 2DG, Great Britain.
(Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 4, 1974)
—The Ealing Business History Seminar (Ealing Technical College, London, Prof. D. J. Oddy, coordinator) sponsored papers on “Ac counting in the Nineteenth Century,” at the conference held on January 18, 1974. A principal paper was delivered by Prof. G. A. Lee of Nottingham on the concept of profit in British Accounting, 1760-1900. Prof. S. Pollard was chairman of the forum discussion on application of accounting principles to business records. The next seminar is planned for November 8th.
—Convener of the Accounting History Society (England) is John Freear, Esq., University of Kent. Dr. G. A. Lee, the University of Nottingham, is Hon. Secretary.
—Williard E. Stone of Florida presented a paper at the Southeastern Regional Conference of the American Accounting Association en titled “Accounting Records History: The Virginia Cobbler—A Case Study.” At the same Conference, held at Memphis State University, during April, Gary John Previts of Alabama presented a paper en titled “Schools of Thought: A Technique for Historical Research.”
—The Sun Oil Company has designated the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library (Wilmington, Delaware) as the depository for its business archives. The first segment of the company’s records to be processed covers the period 1889-1963.
—John M. Anderson, Falkirk, Scotland may be contacted for information about the library holdings of the Scottish History Society.
(Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 4, 5, 1974)
-The Herwood Library of Accountancy, partially documented in a 1938 catalogue which lists holdings of over 1200 pre-1900 ac-counting texts, has been entered into the collection of the Langsdale Library, The University of Baltimore.
-Information about the activities of the Oral History Association can be obtained by writing George Ellsworth, Western Historical Quarterly, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84321.
-The National Endowment for the Humanities is funding a 13-week dramatization called “The Adams Chronicles 1750-1900.” It will be produced by WNET and telecast nationally over the PBS Sys tem during 1975-1976.
-The 21st annual meeting of the Business History Conference is scheduled to be held at Northwestern University February 28 – March 1, 1975. For information write Professor Fred Bateman, BU 670, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47401.
—Professor Geoffrey A. Lee, Secretary of The Accounting History Society, announces the annual meeting of that organization as having been held on [date omitted in original].
-“The Pisan Document from Philadelphia”—a fragment of a naval account dated in the first half of the 12th century, has been re-ported to The Academy by Professor Tito Antoni, Quartiere Diaz 21, 55049 Viareggio, Italy. It contains a series of entries relative to the direct costs sustained by a shipowner and trader of Pisa for the construction of a galley.
(Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 3, 5, 1974)
