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Brooklyn Engineers' Club. 



Address. Brooklyn, N. Y. Office of Secretary: 197 Montague Street. 

 History. Organized and incorporated in 1896. Maintains a technical 



library in Brooklyn Library Building, Montague Street (near Fulton 



Street). 



Object. Promotion of social and professional intercourse among its members; 



advancement of engineering knowledge and practice ; maintenance of a high 



standard of professional procedure. 



Meetings. Monthly, 2d Thursday, Oct. to May, inclusive. 

 Membership. 197 corporate (annual dues, $8) ; 42 associate (annual dues, $6) ; 



13 non-resident (annual dues, $3). Entrance fee, $5. 



Publications. 



Proceedings, [v. 1-9], 1897-1905. Brooklyn, 1898-1906. 8. 

 Price: $2 per vol. 



Distribution. Exchange. Sent gratis to libraries on application. On sale by the 

 Secretary. 



Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Address. 502 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Director: Franklin W. 

 Hooper. Museum on Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



History. Founded 1823, and incorporated Nov. 20, 1824 as Brooklyn 

 Apprentices' Association; name changed in 1843, under amended 

 charter, to Brooklyn Institute; reorganized 1887-88; new corporation 

 established Apr. 23, 1890, under present name, and property of the old 

 Brooklyn Institute transferred to it in 1891. In 1888, the Brooklyn 

 Microscopical Society became the Department of Microscopy of the 

 Institute; the American Astronomical Society" became the Department 

 of Astronomy, and the Brooklyn Entomological Society 6 (founded 1872 

 as the Brooklyn Entomological Club), the Department of Entomology. 

 In 1889 the Linden Camera Club became the Department of Photog- 

 raphy. Other departments have been founded in the various fields of 

 arts and sciences, making the total number 28. Library of about 30,000 

 volumes. Museum of art, natural history, archaeology, and ethnology 

 includes many valuable special collections, among them being the 

 William Wallace Tooker collection of Indian relics of Long Island, 

 the Neumoegen collection of Lepidoptera, and the Gebhard geological 



a Publ.: Papers read before the American astronomical society, no. 1-3. Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., 1885-88. 8. 



^Publ: Bulletin of the Brooklyn entomological club. v. I -VII. Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 1878/80-1884/85. 8. Combined with "Papilio" (pub. New York and Philadelphia, 

 1881-84 ) and continued as: Entomologica Americana; a monthly journal of entomology, 

 v. I-VI, Apr., i885-Dec., 1890. [Brooklyn, N. Y., 1886-90!. 8. 



