was provided by the National Archives and by the National Ocean Survey, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency’s successor to the old Coast Survey of Peirce’s time. Special thanks go to individual staff members of these institutions and to the many scholars and archivists who have provided important research support, including Melanie Wisner of the Harvard Houghton Library; to Webb Dordick for his research assistance in the Harvard Libraries; to Marjorie Ciarlante of the National Archives, and Grace Sollers and Sharon Tomlinson of NOAA’s Geodesy Library; to graduate assistants Jeffrey DiLeo, Adam Kovach, and Jack Musselman, of the Department of Philosophy, Indiana University (Bloomington), all now pursuing postdoctoral careers; to on-site graduate research assistants Ginger Johnson, Brian C. McDonald, and David Beck, of the Department of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; to Joshua Garrison, editorial assistant; to on-site undergraduate intern Brandy Yaeger; to Gerald McCollam of New York University for his work at Milford and at the New York Public Library; to Richard Tursman (York University, Ontario) for his indispensable assistance in editing Peirce’s scientific papers; to Vania Goodwin, University Library, IUPUI; to Pier Bierbach (Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg), Janice Deledalle-Rhodes (Montbazin, France), Alan Gauld (University of Nottingham, UK), Don Hebert (East Texas Baptist University), Ron Knott (most recently a Visiting Fellow, University of Surrey, UK), Eric Luijten (Thomas Instituut Utrecht), Kelly Parker (Grand Valley State University), Volker Peckhaus (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), David Pfeifer (Principia College), Stephen Pollard (Truman State University), Bruce Thompson (Erie County Library System, Erie, PA), and José Vericat (University of Madrid), for their expert assistance at several points.
We are also indebted to Stephen Schmidt and the Interlibrary Loan department of IUPUI and to the Texas Tech University Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism for permission to use duplicates of its annotated photocopy of the Harvard Peirce Papers. Members of the Charles S. Peirce Society, as well as the editors of the Society’s Transactions, have been a constant source of support and scholarly information. Our thanks also go to Darryl Rehr, journalist and editor of ETCetera, the journal of the Early Typewriter Collectors Association, for his detailed information on the typewriter models used by Peirce during the 1880s. Professor Peter Weil of the University of Delaware kindly provided rare original documentation for the Hammond type shuttles which Peirce used on his Hammond typewriters throughout the period covered by this volume. Robert Hirst, General Editor of the Mark Twain Project (University of California, Berkeley), has provided expert advice both as a fellow editor and as a member of the Peirce Project’s Advisory Board. We are grateful to him for coordinating the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions during the CSE inspection process, and to Larry Hickman, General Editor of the Dewey Edition (Southern Illinois University), for conducting the MLA inspection on behalf of the CSE.
We are also grateful to the contributing editors listed on the series page of this volume for the specialized scholarship they brought to bear on many of the selections. Special thanks go to our copy editor and production manager Aleta Houser, who saw a number of selections through the first stage of review by contributing editors, and to former staff members Kyle Barnett and Beth Eccles, who provided administrative and development support for the edition. The executive support of Tracie Peterson has been essential at every stage of production. Throughout the period of volume preparation, we were fortunate to have the expert counsel of Arthur Burks of the University of Michigan and Don Cook of Indiana University, Bloomington, who continue to serve as advisory editors for the Peirce Project, and Don Roberts of the University of Waterloo (Ontario), who has provided outstanding support as Advisory Board Chair for the last five years. We are grateful as well for the memory of Max H. Fisch, who devoted a half century to Peirce research and, after his retirement, fifteen years to the Peirce Project. His work and inspiration will live on through the donation of his books and papers to Indiana University.
Special acknowledgment is due to Christian J. W. Kloesel, former Director and Editor of the Peirce Edition Project. Work on Volume 6 began under his direction and the present Project organization and methods evolved from the structures he left in place when he completed his tenure in 1993.
A final note of thanks goes to four administrative officials of Indiana University: President Myles Brand, Chancellor and Vice President Gerald L. Bepko, Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculties William M. Plater, and Dean Herman Saatkamp of the School of Liberal Arts. Dean Emeritus John D. Barlow, who led the School of Liberal Arts through eleven crucial years in the development of the Peirce Project, provided institutional and personal support throughout his tenure. We are fortunate to have the same high level of commitment from Dean Saatkamp, a scholarly editor in his own right and long-time General Editor of the Works of George Santayana. As both an administrator and a colleague, he has already helped the Peirce Project plan for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Chronology
| (Years of W6 period in boldface type) | |
| 1839 | Born in Cambridge, Mass., to Benjamin and Sarah Hunt (Mills) Peirce, 10 Sept. |
| 1847–50 | Worked his way through Liebig’s method of chemical analysis |
| 1858 | First publication: “Think Again!” Harvard Magazine, Apr. |
| 1859 | Graduated (A.B.) from Harvard Temporary aide in U.S. Coast Survey, fall to spring ’60 |
| 1860 | Studied classification with Agassiz at Harvard, summer-fall |
| 1861 | Entered Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard Appointed regular aide in Coast Survey, 1 July |
| 1862 | Received graduate degree (A.M.) from Harvard Married Harriet Melusina Fay, 16 Oct. |
| 1863 | Graduated summa cum laude (Sc.B.) in Chemistry from Lawrence Scientific School |
| 1865 | Delivered Harvard lectures on “The Logic of Science,” spring Began Logic Notebook, 12 Nov.; last entry in Nov. ’09 |
| 1866 | Delivered Lowell Institute lectures on “The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis,” 24 Oct.–1 Dec. |
| 1867 | Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 30 Jan. |
| 1869 | Wrote first of about 300 Nation reviews; last in Dec. ’08 Assistant at Harvard Observatory, Oct. ’69–Dec. ’72 Delivered Harvard lectures on “British Logicians,” Dec.–Jan. |
| 1870 | First Coast Survey assignment in Europe, 18 Jun. ’70–7 Mar. ’71 |
| 1871–72 | Founded Cambridge Metaphysical Club in spring, or in Jan. ’72 In charge of Survey office, spring-summer Put in charge of pendulum experiments, beginning in Nov. Promoted to rank of Assistant in the Survey, 1 Dec. |
| 1875 | Second Coast Survey assignment in Europe, Apr. ’75–Aug. ’76 First official American delegate to the International Geodetic Association, Paris, 20–29 Sept. |
| 1876 | Separated from Melusina, Oct. |
| 1877 | Elected to National Academy of Sciences, 20 Apr. Third Coast Survey assignment in Europe, 13 Sept.–18 Nov. Represented U.S. at International Geodetic Association conference in Stuttgart, 27 Sept.–2 Oct. |
| 1878 |
Photometric Researches published in Aug.
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