14 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



American Folk-lore Society. 



Address. Cambridge, Mass. 



History. Organized at Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 4, 1888; incorporated 

 in 1893. Branches in Boston (1890), Cambridge, Mass. (1893), and 

 Cincinnati (1896). The Baltimore Folk-lore Society (1895) is an 

 affiliated society. 



Object. Study of folk-lore in general, and in particular the collection and publica- 

 tion of the folk-lore of the American continent. 



Meetings. At least once yearly, at such time and place as may be determined by the 

 council; at present in convocation week (December) in conjunction with section H 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American 

 Anthropological Association. Monthly meetings of the local branches. 



Membership. 242 annual (dues for those who receive the Journal of American Folk- 

 lore only, $3 ; for " subscribers to the publication fund," who receive all publica- 

 tions of the society, $10) ; n life ($50) ; 13 honorary (limited to 25). 



Publications. 



JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLK-LORE, v. I-XVIII. [Apr. i888-Dec. 1905.] 

 Boston and New York [etc.], 1888-1905. 8. q. 



On covers : nos. I-LXXI. 



Price: $3 a year; single numbers, $i. 



MEMOIRS . . . v. I -VIII. Boston and New York, 1894-1904. 8. 



"Contains monographs too extensive for the pages of the Journal." 

 Contents: v. i, Folk-tales of Angola; ed. by H. Chatelain. 1894. v. 2, 

 Louisiana folk-tales; ed. by A. Fortier. 1895. v. 3, Bahama songs and 

 stories, by C. L. Edwards. 1895. v. 4, Current superstitions; ed. by 

 Fanny D. Bergen. 1896 v. 5, Navaho legends; tr. by W. Matthews. 

 1897 v. 6, Traditions of the Thompson river Indians of British Colum- 

 bia ; collected by J. Teit. 1898 v. 7, Animal and plant lore ; ed. by 

 Fanny D. Bergen. 1899 v. 8, Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee; col- 

 lected and annotated by G. A. Dorsey. 1904. 



Prices: v. 1-4, 6, 7, $3.50 each( to members, $3) ; v. 5, 8, $6 each (to mem- 

 bers, $5). 



Distribution. Exchange with other anthropological societies publishing folk-lore. 

 On sale by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York. 



American Forestry Association. 

 Address. 1311 G Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Secretary: Thomas 



E. Will. 



History. Organized at Cincinnati in Apr. 1882 as the American Forestry 

 Congress, being joined at the Montreal meeting in Aug. of the same 

 year by an earlier American Forestry Association, organized at Chicago 

 in Sept. 1875; present name since 1889; incorporated in Jan. 1897. 

 Ref.: Proceedings, v. I. 



Branches formed in Philadelphia (1889), New Orleans (1892), Montreal (1892), 

 New York (1893), now inactive or dissolved. 



