Certificate of election to membership of Charles Atwood Kofoid, 1924 Apr. 26.
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American Philosophical Society
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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...
Kofoid, Charles A. (Charles Atwood), 1865-1947
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Charles A. Kofoid was a professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Charles A. Kofoid correspondence : additions, 1928-1938. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26872497 Charles Atwood Kofoid was born in 1865 in Granville, Putnam County, Illinois. He received an A.B. from Oberlin College in 1890, A.M. Harvard, 1892, PhD Harvard, 1894. He married Prudence Winter, a fellow student at Obe...
