Acknowledgements
My thanks to all The Chemical Heritage Foundation staff who helped support the proceedings of the Cain Conference 2017, the library staff, director Robert Anderson, and Beckman Center director Carin Berkowitz, for her excellent organizational coordination of the conference programme, for help with publication planning, and the early editorial phases of this special issue. Particular gratitude goes to Jenny Miglus for the Bulkeley Notebooks. Thanks also are due to the patience and understanding of the editors of Annals of Science, and finally my own personal thanks go to the authors of this collection, and their patience with the lengthy editorial process.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).