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Meetings. Exhibitions of fungi on Saturdays, July to Nov., from 12 m. to 3 p. m., at 

 Horticultural Hall, Boston. Lectures on the 3d Monday of Nov., Jan., Mar., and 

 May, at the rooms of the Boston Society of Natural History, Berkeley Street, 

 Boston, at 7 145 p. m. 



Membership. About 300 active (annual dues, $1)54 honorary. 

 Publications. 



BULLETIN, no. 1-21. [Cambridge], 1897-1904. 8. irreg. 



no. 9: A list of Vermont Helvclleae, with descriptive notes, by E. A. 



Burt. (Repr. from Rhodora, v. i, no. 4, Apr. 1899.) 



no. 10. Glossary for students of the fleshy fungi. Comp. by E. A. Daniels. 

 Prices: no. 1-8, o. p.; no. 9, 20, 21, isc. each; no. 10, 25c. ; no. n, 12, 19, loc. 



each; double no. 13/14, 15/16, 17/18, 20c. each. 

 Distribution. Apply to Miss J. F. Conant, 26 Prospect Street, Melrose, Mass. 



Boston Scientific Society. 



Address. 241 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. Corresponding Secretary: 

 John Ritchie, Jr., P. O. Box 2795, Boston, Mass. (Cable address: 

 Astronomer, Boston.) 



History. Founded in 1876 under the name Boston Amateur Philosophical 

 Association; name changed in 1877 to Boston Amateur Scientific 

 Society; present name since 1878; incorporated in 1880. 



Object. To bring together scientific investigators, especially the younger ones; to 

 afford them the advantages of consultation and discussion and opportunity to 

 present their work to the public; to provide for them a library of standard works 

 and proceedings. 



Meetings. 2d and 4th Tuesdays of each month. 



Membership. 25 active (entrance fee, $2; annual dues, $5; life composition, $50); 

 20 associate (annual dues, $2) ; 4 honorary; 9 corresponding. 



Publications. 



Science Observer, v. I-V, no. 3. Boston, 1877-87. 8. 



Discontinued. 

 Science Observer special circular. 1-138. Boston, 1879-1905. 8. 



Usually single sheets. Devoted to early information about comets. The 

 earlier circulars were reprinted in or issued as supplements to the Science 

 Observer. 



Science Observer international circular. 1-40. Berlin, 1882-95. 8. 

 Of same nature as above, the matter being cabled to Berlin. Discontinued. 

 Occasional publications, no. 1-2. Boston, 1888-97. 



no. i : Science Observer code, by S. C. Chandler, Jr., and J. Ritchie, Jr. 4. 



no. 2 : List of books in the English language on travel, exploration and moun- 

 taineering published within the year ending Aug. 31, 1897. Prepared by 

 J. Ritchie, Jr. 8. 



