Over the years, the APS has supported dozens of researchers through its Resident Fellowship program, which offers funding for short-term projects using the Library's manuscript and printed resources. This issue of the Library Bulletin features articles contributed by two recent recipients of Resident Fellowships, Mark Largent and Mark Sawin, both of whom offer strikingly new perspectives on two of the most important and heavily used collections in the APS.

Largent's article, "Zoology for the Twentieth Century," is an effort to assess the position of Charles Benedict Davenport in the 20th century life sciences. Although remembered primarily as an organizer and administrator of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, and as one of the most ardent American eugenicists of the first half of the century, Davenport made a set of prescient predictions for the future direction of zoological research in 1901. Using these predictions as a springboard, Largent begins what promises to be a fascinating reassessment of Davenport's career, and inevitably of the career of the eugenics movement, and offers the tantalizing hint that Davenport's turn to eugenics might have been prompted, in part, by the interests of his wife, Gertrude Crotty Davenport.

Sawin's reappraisal of the 19th century arctic explorer, Elisha Kent Kane, is similarly challenging, providing an excellent summary of Kane's peregrinations on the road to arctic immortality. From his beginnings in the bosom of wealthy and politically powerful family, Kane leaves a remarkable trace as he fashioned an original public persona that made him, as Sawin notes, the most celebrated hero of "Romantic" antebellum America.

One of the pleasures of working at a Library like that of the American Philosophical Society is the opportunity to witness the ebb and flow of historiographical tides as new generations of historians turn fresh eyes on problems of long standing. With the second issue of the Bulletin now in print, we look forward to the future of the past.