Graduate School in Bozeman, Montana

A few things to mention: 1) I was accepted into Montana State University's graduate program in history; 2) we can most likely remain in our family housing apartment (I hate moving all the books!); and 3) for the first year of my graduate studies, I will be involved with my advisor on a funded project to transcribe the letters of the 19th-century Irish physicist John Tyndall, focusing, I believe, on letters dealing with his mountaineering endeavo[u]rs. Whether or not I will use the information gathered through reading so many letters to develop my thesis or write something entirely different, I am not sure. But Tyndall did touch on some biological topics later in his career. The project is spearheaded by historian of science Bernard Lightman (author of Victorian Science in Context [1997] and Victorian Popularizers of Science [2007], and editor of the journal Isis). From his "works in progress" on his homepage:

A biography of John Tyndall using the extensive unpublished correspondence from the Royal Institution and elsewhere, funded by a three-year SSHRC grant. Currently I am working with a team of graduate students to transcribe the letters.