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HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



Synopsis of California stalk-eyed Crustacea. By S. J. Holmes. 1900. 0. 

 List of the Coleoptera of Southern California. By H. C. Fall. 1901. 9. 

 A handbook of the trees of California, by Alice Eastwood. 1905. 

 Note. Entire stock of publications destroyed by fire on Apr. 18, 1906. 



California Historic-Genealogical Society. 



Address. Corresponding Secretary: Miss Sarah Louise Kimball, Palo 



Alto, Cal. 

 History. Organized Feb. 12, 1898, as the California Genealogical Society; 



present name since 1902. 



Object. To collect, preserve, and disseminate information on genealogy; to assist 

 its members in tracing their ancestry, and to ascertain the location and condition 

 of the various public and private records which are or may become accessible to 

 students of genealogy and American history. 



Meetings. Quarterly, ist Saturday in Jan., Apr., July, and Oct. 



Membership. 80 (entrance fee, 5oc. ; annual dues, soc.). 



Publications. 



Publication no. [ i ] -3. San Francisco, 1900-02. 8. 



no. I issued under title: California register, v. I, no. I. Apr. 1900. no. 2. 



The Spanish archives of California. Paper read . . . July 13, 1901, by 

 Z. S. Eldredge. 

 Price: 750. each. 



California Historical Society. 



Address. San Francisco, Cal. Secretary: A. S. Hubbard, Masonic 

 Temple. 



History. Organized and incorporated in 1886, reviving an earlier incor- 

 porated society of the same name, founded in 1870 but inactive from 

 about 1875. A s tiM earlier historical society incorporated in 1852 under 

 the name Historical Society of the State of California left no record 

 of its activities. 



Ref.: Papers, v. I, pt. I. p. xvii-xxxii. 



Object. To collect, preserve, and diffuse information relating to history. 

 Meetings. 3d Tuesday of alternate months. 



Membership. 137 active (annual dues, $5; life composition, $100) ; 7 corresponding; 

 6 honorary. 



Publications. 



Noticias de la Nueva California, escritas por el Rev. Padre Fr. Francisco 

 Palou [1776-83]. San Francisco, 1874. 4 v. 8. 



loo copies printed. 



Reglamento general para el gobierno de la Provincia de Californias, 

 aprobado por S. M. en el Real orden de Octubre de 1781. 

 150 copies printed. 



