The Journal of the student center of the doctorate in natural sciences

Abstract

The first issue of the journal of the Centro de Estudiantes del Doctorado en Ciencias Naturales appeared in May 1935, at a time when research was not too much encouraged at the University.The reasons of my interest in studying this event are various. In the first place, scientific publications were quite unusual at the time, e.g. the first journal of the Asociación Geológica Argentina was published in 1945. On the other hand it allowed local researchers to become known not only in our country but also abroad due to the exchange of bibliographical information with other institutions that gave rise to the Centro de Estudiantes library. In 1941 its name was changed to ?Holmbergia? as a way to honor Eduardo Holmberg, ?the first native Argentinian Professor? as stated by Jorge A. Crespo in the Editorial of number 6, Vol. III. Looking through the different issues it is possible to get acquainted with some of our first scholars and it turns out as a valuable contribution to obtain  an idea of the history of science in our country. The magazine was sustained by the financial contribution of students, graduates and professors and it was published in two different periods, the first one from its beginning to 1946, and a second period from 1956 to 1971, when the last number published.