Darwin-L Message Log 6:1 (February 1994)

Academic Discussion on the History and Theory of the Historical Sciences

This is one message from the Archives of Darwin-L (1993–1997), a professional discussion group on the history and theory of the historical sciences.

Note: Additional publications on evolution and the historical sciences by the Darwin-L list owner are available on SSRN.

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<6:1>From DARWIN@iris.uncg.edu  Tue Feb  1 00:09:11 1994

Date: Tue, 01 Feb 1994 01:20:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: DARWIN@iris.uncg.edu
Subject: List owner's monthly greeting
To: darwin-l@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu
Organization: University of NC at Greensboro

Greetings to all Darwin-L subscribers.  On the first of every month I send
out a short note on the status of our group with a reminder of basic commands.
Darwin-L is now five months old, and we have almost 550 members from nearly
30 countries.  I am grateful to all of you for your interest and your many
contributions.  A special thanks to all the members new and old who recently
introduced themselves to the group.  Any others among us who would like to
introduce themselves in this way they are most welcome to do so; those who
wish to remain in the background and just listen in on our discussions are
perfectly welcome to do that as well.

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The Darwin-L gopher archive is now open for business on rjohara.uncg.edu
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problems.  The Darwin-L gopher contains the logs of our past discussions,
several bibliographies of interest to historical scientists, and gateways to
a variety of other interesting network resources.  Pay a visit and bring your
friends.

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I thank you all for your continuing interest in Darwin-L.

Bob O'Hara, Darwin-L list owner

Robert J. O'Hara (darwin@iris.uncg.edu)
Center for Critical Inquiry and Department of Biology
100 Foust Building, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina 27412 U.S.A.

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