Il8 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



The early Massachusetts press, 1638-1711, by G. E. Littlefield. Bos- 

 ton, 1907. 2 v. 8. 



Distribution. No exchange. The edition is usually taken by members and their 

 friends. Occasionally a few copies are sold. 



Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



Address. 491 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. 



History. Incorporated Apr. 10, 1861, for the purpose of instituting and 

 maintaining a society of arts, a museum of arts and a school of in- 

 dustrial science. The Society of Arts (v. infra} was organized at the 

 first meeting of the corporation Apr. 8, 1862 and has held meetings 

 regularly to date ; the Civil War led to a postponement of the opening 

 of the school of industrial science until 1865. 



Ref. : The beginning of the Massachusetts institute of technology, by J. P. 

 Munroe. (In Technology quarterly, v. I, no. 4, May 1888.) Historical 

 sketch in Annual catalogue. 



Publications. 



Abstract of the proceedings of the Society of arts for the i8th-29th 

 year, 1879/80-1890/91. Boston, 1880-91. 12 v. 8. 



Abstracts for 1870/71-1876/77 were published in the Annual reports of 

 the Secretary of the institute. Proceedings for other years prior to 1879 

 not published. 



Continued in the following from v. 5 : 



TECHNOLOGY QUARTERLY and proceedings of the Society of arts. v. I- 

 XIX, Sept. i887-Dec. 1906. Boston, 1887-1906. 8. 



v. 1-4 have title Technology quarterly ; v. 1-2 pub. by an association of 



students. 



v. 8-14 include Review of American chemical research, v. 1-7; Apr. 1895- 

 Dec. 1901, ed. by A. A. Noyes. (For continuation see Journal of the 

 American chemical society.) 

 Price: $3 per annum; single numbers, 75c. 



Contributions from the Physical laboratory, Contributions from the 

 Research laboratory of physical chemistry, Contributions from the 

 Chemical laboratory, Contributions from the Sanitary research 

 laboratory and Sewage experiment station are published in Proceed- 

 ings of the American academy of arts and sciences, American 

 chemical journal, Technology quarterly or other publications and 

 issued as reprints separately or collected into volumes by the re- 

 spective laboratories. 



See also A register of the publications of the Institute and of its 

 officers, students and alumni, 1862-1893. Pub. by the Alumni asso- 

 ciation. Boston, 1893. 8. 



ist ed., 1862-1881, pub. 1882; 2d ed., 1862-1887, pub. 1888. 



Distribution. Exchange. The Technology quarterly is on sale at the office of 

 the Editor, Room 15, 491 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. 



