32 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



American Ornithologists' Union. 



Address. American Museum of Natural History, New York City, N. Y. 



(in care of J. A. Allen). 

 History. Founded in New York City, Sept. 26, 1883; incorporated in 



Washington, D. C., Nov., 1888. 



Object. Promotion of the science of ornithology. 



Meetings. Annually in November, at New York, Cambridge, Mass., Philadelphia, 

 and Washington in rotation. 



Membership. 48 fellows (limited to 50) ; 17 honorary fellows (limited to 25) ; 61 

 corresponding fellows (limited to 100) ; 73 members (limited to 75) ; 657 asso- 

 ciates (not limited). Entrance fees (covering dues for the first year) : fellows, 

 $10 ; members, $5; associates, $3. Annual dues: fellows, $5; members, $4; asso- 

 ciates, $3. Life composition (open to fellows only), $100. Patrons, $500. 



Publications. 



The AUK, a quarterly journal of ornithology, v. I-XXIII, 1884-1906. 

 Boston, 1884-85; New York, 1886- [ 1901 ]; Cambridge, Mass., 1902- 

 [06]. 8. 



At head of t.-p. :Old series, v. 9-31, continuation of the Bulletin of the 



Nuttall ornithological club. New series, v. 1-23. 

 Prices: $3 a year; single numbers, 75c. 



The code of nomenclature and check-list of North American birds 

 adopted by the ... Union. New York, 1886. 8. 



Price: $3. Abridged and revised edition, "Check-list of North American 

 birds . . ." 1889, 5oc. 



[ist] Supplement. New York, 1889. 8. 



2d-i3th supplements in the Auk, v. 7-21 (1890-1904). 



[Another edition entitled :] 



Check-list of North American birds. . . . 2d and rev. ed. New York, 



1895. 8. 



Price: $2. 

 The code of nomenclature adopted by the American ornithologists' 



union. New York, 1892. 8. 



Price: soc. 



Distribution. Exchange limited mainly to ornithological journals. Publications 

 on sale at the office of the Treasurer, Dr. J. Dwight, Jr., 2 East 34th Street, New 

 York City. Foreign agent: R. H. Porter, 7 Princes Street, Cavendish Square, 

 W., London. 



American Philological Association. 



Address. Secretary : Frank Gardner Moore, Dartmouth College, Han- 

 over, N. H. 



History. Organized 1869. The Philological Association of the Pacific 

 Coast (organized in San Francisco, 1899) became in July, 1900, the 

 Western branch of the general association, retaining its original name. 



