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American Social Science Association. 



Address. General Secretary: Fred. Stanley Root, 291 Orange Street, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



History. Organized in Boston in 1865 as the American Association for 

 the Promotion of Social Science. Present name since 1869. Incor- 

 porated 1899. 



Object. The objects of the society are classified in 4 departments: Education and 

 art, health, social economy, jurisprudence; its field being the investigation and dis- 

 cussion of all subjects pertaining to the progress of human society. 



Meetings. Annual convention at such time and place as may be determined by the 

 council or the association. 



Membership. 762 active and 100 associate (annual dues, $5) ; 36 life ($100) ; 33 hon- 

 orary. 



Publications. 



Documents published by the association, pt. I, II. Boston, 1866-67. 8. 



Contents: [pt. I] : Constitution, address, and list of members, to which are 

 added minutes of the transactions of the association, July, 1866. pt. II: 

 Address before the association at the fifth general meeting, New York, Nov. 

 19, 1867, by Samuel Eliot, to which are added lists of papers [read at the 

 3d, 4th, and 5th general meetings and at department meetings], members, 

 etc., December, 1867. 



JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, containing the Transactions (later Pro- 

 ceedings) of the American association, no. I-XLIII, 1869-1905. 

 Boston and New York, [1869] -1905. 8. irreg. 



Transactions (or Proceedings) separately paged since no. 8. no. 6 and 7 are 

 paged consecutively and have common index; no. 10, Dec., 1879, erroneously 

 marked no. IX. 



Prices: $i per number. Some of the earlier numbers, now rare, $1.50 each. 

 no. 1-4, 8-9, o. p. 



Extra no. [1-3]. Proceedings of the 2d-4th conference of 



charities, held in connection with the general meeting of the . . . 

 association. 1875-77. Boston, [etc.], 1875-77. 8. 

 See National conference of charities and corrections. 



See also list of publications, with contents, in recent nos. of Journal. 



Distribution. Exchange. On sale by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York; Damrell 

 & Upham, Boston; Boston Book Co., Boston. 



American Society for Testing Materials. 



Address. Secretary-Treasurer: Edgar Marburg, University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Philadelphia, Pa. 



History. Organized June 16, 1898, as the American Section of the Inter- 

 national Association for Testing Materials. Incorporated in March, 

 1902, under present name. 



