3O HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



American Mosquito Extermination Society. 

 Address. Room 74, Tribune Building, New York City. Secretary: Henry 



Clay Weeks, Bayside, Long Island. 



History. Provisionally organized in Jan. 1904, pursuant to resolutions 

 adopted at the first Anti-mosquito Convention, held in Dec. 1903. Orig- 

 inally called National Mosquito Extermination Society. Final organi- 

 zation and adoption of the present title in Dec. 1904. 



Object. To effect by means of education, legislation, cooperation, and interchange 



of ideas the practical extermination of the mosquito in settled communities or 



sections. 



Meetings. Annual conventions. Meeting of the executive committee as required. 

 Membership. 50 sustaining (annual dues, $5) ; 34 associate (annual dues, $10) ; 



2 life ($100) ; 10 benefactors ($25). Contribution of patrons, $500; of founders, 



$1,000. 



Publications. 



Proceedings of the first general convention to consider the questions 

 involved in mosquito extermination. Dec. 16, 1903. Brooklyn, 

 1904. 8. 



2d ed., 1904. Price: $i. 



Yearbook for 1904/05, containing the Proceedings of the 2d anti-mos- 

 quito convention, Dec. 15-16, 1904. New York, 1906. 8. 

 Bulletin no. 1-2. Nov. i9O4-Sept. 1905. 



Distribution. Publications distributed to interested persons. Application should 

 be made to the Assistant Secretary at the above address. 



American Mycological Society. 

 See The Botanical Society of America. 



American Negro Academy. 

 Address. Washington, D. C. 



Secretary: J. W. Cromwell, 1439 Pierce Place, N. W., Washington, D. C. 

 History. Organized Mar. 5, 1897; not incorporated. 



Object. Promotion of letters, science and art among men of African descent; en- 

 couragement of scholarship and stimulation of inventive and artistic powers. 



Meetings. Annually in Dec. in Washington. 



Membership. About 35 active (i. e. residents of the United States), limited to 50, 

 (entrance fee, $5, including dues for first year ; annual dues, $2) ; 6 foreign cor- 

 responding. 



Publications. 



Occasional papers, no. i-ii. Washington, 1897-1905. 8. 



Contents: no. I. A review of Hoffmann's "Race traits and tendencies of 

 the American negro," by K. Miller. 1897. no. 2. The conservation of 

 races, by W. E. B. DuBois. 1897. no. 3. Civilization, the primal need 

 of the race. The attitude of the American mind toward the negro 



