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Object. To promote, by all appropriate means, the advancement and prosperity of 



the woolen interest. 

 Meetings. Annually, on the ist Wednesday in Feb. 



Publications. 



Memoirs relating to the wool industry, consisting principally of papers 

 published by the National association of wool manufacturers, 1865- 

 68, previously to the publication of its Bulletin. Boston, 1872. 8. 



BULLETIN . . . 1869-1905. v. I-XXXV. Boston, Mass., 1869-1905. 

 8. q. 



Recent volumes contain Annual wool review; also issued separately. 

 Prices: $2 per annum; bound vols., $2.50; single nos., SGC. ; v. 1-13, o. p. 



The wool book; a statistical manual, containing the latest official infor- 

 mation of the production, movement, and consumption of wool in all 

 countries, etc. Boston, 1892 & 1895. 16. 

 Prices: soc. and 75c., respectively. 



Also reprints from Bulletin, see list in recent numbers. 



National Conference of Charities and Correction. 



Address. General Secretary: Alexander Johnson, 202 W. 82d Street. 

 New York City, N. Y. 



History. Owes its origin to meetings held in 1872 and 1873 by representa- 

 tives of the State Boards of Charities of Illinois, Wisconsin and Michi- 

 gan. Invitations to the first national conference in 1874 issued by the 

 American Social Science Association to the various State Boards of 

 Charities. Annual conferences held in connection with the association 

 to 1878, independently from 1879 to date. Called at first Conference of 

 Charities; "and Correction" added in 1880. Standing committees on 

 State supervision and administration, needy families in their homes, chil- 

 dren, defectives, the treatment of criminals, public dependents, neighbor- 

 hood improvement. 



Ref.: Proceedings of the 9th annual conference, 1882, p. 10-16. 



Object. To discuss the problems of charity and correction and to disseminate infor- 

 mation and promote reforms. 



Meetings. Annual meeting, usually in May or June. Place of meeting changes eacn 

 year. 



Membership. About 1,500 (annual dues: members, $2.50; sustaining members, $10). 

 Publications. 



PROCEEDINGS ... at the ist-32d annual session, 1874-1905. Boston, 

 [etc.], i875-[i 9 o 5 ]. 8. 



Title varies slightly. 



Proceedings of the ist conference originally published in the Journal of 

 social science, no. 6 (July, 1874) ; reprinted separately in 1885. 



