International Academy of Science?

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by Tom Head, Aug 25, 2002.

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  1. Tom Head

    Tom Head New Member

    I'm currently doing a grades 5-7 primary source reader on women and families in the Civil War. One of my profiles deals with Eliza Frances Andrews, author of The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, who later went on to become an extremely well-known botanist--so well known, in fact, that one bio lists her as one of only three Americans in 1926 to hold membership in the International Academy of Science in Italy (the other two, the bio states, were Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt).

    A web search for "International Academy of Science" turns up this organization, which offers some online courses but has probably not been around since 1926, and really doesn't strike me as a vastly prestigious organization:
    http://www.science.edu

    So what's going on here? Is this the same International Academy of Science? If not, what happened to the old one?


    Cheers,
     
  2. The Website you list is probably a different organization. It lists Independence, Missouri, under its name; the Missouri Secretary of State records online show that it incorporated in 1988 as the American Academy of Science and changed its name in 1992. I don't know what's happened to the Italian organization -- I don't know how to find the Italian equivalent of organization/corporate registrations online.

    There's a link to a 1998 conference paper on Andrews at http://www.utc.edu/commdept/conference/98conf/98Rushing.html
     

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