UNITED STATES 1 07 



BILTMORE, N. C. 

 Biltmore Herbarium. 



Address. Biltmore, N. C. Director : C. D. Beadle. 

 History. Founded in 1890. Not incorporated. 



Publications. 



BiivTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES. A journal of botany, issued at irregular 

 intervals, v. I, no. 1-2. London, Eng., Biltmore, N. C., 1901-02. 8. 

 Prices: no. i, SGC. ; no. 2, $i. 



Distribution. Exchange. On sale by the Herbarium and by Wm. Wesley & Son, 

 28 Essex Street, Strand, London, England. 



BOSTON, MASS. 



American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



Address. 28 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass. 



History. Incorporated by act of the General Court of Massachusetts on 

 May 4, 1780. Library of 25,000 volumes. 



Ref.: Memoirs, v. n (Centennial volume), pt. I. 



Object. To cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, 

 honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people. 



Meetings. 4 stated meetings annually, on the 2d Wednesday of May (annual meet- 

 ing), Oct., Jan., and March. Meetings for receiving and discussing scientific com- 

 munications may be held on the 2d Wednesday of each month not appointed for 

 stated meetings, excepting July, Aug., and Sept. 



Membership. 196 resident fellows (limited to 200; admission fee, $10; annual assess- 

 ment, not to exceed $10) ; 98 associate fellows (limited to 100, honorary) ; 72 for- 

 eign honorary members (limited to 75). 



Publications. 



MEMOIRS . . . v. I-IV. Boston [etc.], 1785-1818/21. 4. 



n. s. v. I-XII. Cambridge, 1833-1902. 4. 



v. 13 in progress, no. 1-4 pub. Jan. 1904-Nov. 1906. 



v. 10, no. 3 (Embryology of the Ctenophorse, by Alexander Agassiz), printed 

 in 1874, was overlooked on the publication, in 1881, of the ist memoir of 

 pt. II of the volume, its pagination being duplicated and the volume com- 

 pleted and distributed without it. In 1885 it was distributed as a supple- 

 ment to pt. II, together with a new table of contents. 

 Prices: $10 per vol. ; half-vols., $5. 

 PROCEEDINGS . . . v. I-XLI, 1846/48-1905/06. Boston, 1848-1906. 8. 



I v. yearly (varying no. of fasc.) since 1873. 



v. 1-8 pub. also at Cambridge, 1848-73. v. 9-31 numbered also n. s., v. 1-23. 



Contains Contributions from the Chemical laboratory, Jefferson physical 

 laboratory, Gray herbarium, Zoological laboratory of the Museum of com- 

 parative zoology, Harvard mineralogical museum, and the Cryptogamic 

 laboratory of Harvard university, from the Physical laboratory and the 



