114 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



Ref.: Historical sketch of the Boston society of natural history, with a notice 

 of the Linnsean society, which preceded it, by T. T. Bouve. Boston, 1880. 

 (/M Anniversary memoirs, 1880.) Teachers' school of science, by F. Zirn- 

 giebel. (In Popular science monthly, v. 55, p. 451-465, 640-652.) 

 Object. Encouragement and promotion of the science of natural history. 

 Meetings. ist and 3d Wednesday of each month, Nov. to May, inclusive, in the 



lecture hall of the society, at 8 p .m. 



Membership. 456 corporate (entrance fee, $5 ; annual dues, $5 ; life composition, 

 $100) ; 14 patrons ($500) ; 116 corresponding; 14 honorary. 



Publications. 



BOSTON JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY, containing papers and commu- 

 nications read to the . . . society . . . v. I-VII. 1834/37-1859/63. 

 Boston, 1837-63. 8. 



Price: $50 a set; vols. not sold separately. 

 Continued as : 



MEMOIRS . . . being a new series of the Boston journal of natural his- 

 tory, v. I-V. Boston, 1866/69-1895/1904. 4. 



v. 6 in progress, no. i issued Jan. 1905. 



v. 3 has imprint dates 1878-94 ; the separate nos. were published 1878-86, but 

 title-page and index were not issued until 1894. " A bibliography of verte- 

 brate embryology," by S. C. Minot: m v. 4, no. n, 1893. 

 Prices: $16 a vol. (to members, $14). 



PROCEEDINGS . . . v. I-XXXII, 1841/44-1904/06. Boston, 1844- 

 1904/06. 8. irreg. 



Prices: $4 a vol.; set of v. 1-30, $200; v. i-io sold only in the set. 

 Earlier proceedings were published in the American journal of science and 

 arts, New Haven. 



OCCASIONAL PAPERS . . . I-IV, VI. Boston, 1869-1901. 8. 



v, 5 in preparation (1906). 



v. 7 (in progress) : Fauna of New England. i. List of the Reptilia, by 

 S. Henshaw. 1904. 2. List of the Batrachia, by S. Henshaw. 1904. 

 3. List of the Mammalia, by G. M. Allen. 1904. 4. List of the 

 Echinodermata, by H. L. Clark. 1904. 5. List of the Crustacea, by M. 

 J. Rathbun. 1905. 6. List of the Odonata, by P. P. Calvert. 19057- 

 List of the Formicidae, by W. M. Wheeler. 1906. 



Condition and doings ... as exhibited by the annual reports of the 

 officers. 1865-95. Boston, 1865-95. 8. 



Title varies: 1871, Custodian's report; 1871/72-1881/82, Annual reports; 1883, 



Proceedings. 

 Annual . . . 1868-69. I. Boston, 1868. 12. 



No more published. 

 Guides for science-teaching, no. I-XVI. Boston, 1878-94. 16. 



Published as supplementary to courses of lectures on botany, zoology, and 



mineralogy, given by the Teachers' school of science. 

 2d edition issued in many cases. Now published by D. C. Heath & Co. 



