l68 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



COLORADO. 



Colorado Scientific Society. 



Address. Chamber of Commerce Building, Denver, Col. Secretary: 



W. A. Johnston. 

 History* Founded in Dec., 1882 ; incorporated Jan., 1885 



Object. Promotion of scientific intercourse, observation and record in the State of 



Colorado.. 

 Meetings. Monthly, ist Saturday, in the society's rooms, above address. Annual 



meeting 3d Saturday in Dec. 

 Membership. 207 active and associate (annual dues, $10) ; I life ($100) ; 3 honorary. 



Publications. 



PROCEEDINGS . . . v. I-VII, 1883/84-1901/04. Denver, Col., [1885- 

 1905]- 8. 



v. 3, pt. 3, has supplement: On the gold deposits in the quartzite formation 

 of Battle Mountain. By F. Guiterman. v. 8 in progress, 1905-06. v. 7-8 

 issued in brochures. 

 Prices: v. i, o. p.; v. 2, pt. i, $i, pt. 2, soc., pt. 3, $1.50; v. 3, pt. i, $r, pt. 2, 



5oc., pt. 3, $1.50; v. 4-6, $4.50 each; v. 7, $5. 

 Distribution. Exchange. On sale at the society's rooms. 



State Historical and Natural History Society. 



Address. State House, Denver, Col. Secretary: Charles R. Dudley. 

 Curator: William C. Ferril. 



History. Incorporated July, n, 1879, in accordance with the provisions 

 of an act to encourage the formation of a State Historical and Natural 

 History Society, approved Feb. 13, 1879. Maintains a library and a 

 museum with historical, ethnological (largely cliff dweller) and natural 

 history collections, occupying rooms in the State House at Denver and 

 formally opened to the public Aug. 14, 1896. Appropriations for the 

 support of the society made by the State, in which the title to all property 

 acquired by the society is vested. The Colorado Academy of Science 

 forms an independently organized section of the society, having been 

 established Jan., 1897, as the Department of Natural History of the 

 State Historical and Natural History Society. It consists of 6 sections : 

 botany, zoology, geology, microscopy, meteorology and physical sciences, 

 nature study. It fell heir upon its organization to the library of the 

 former Denver Microscopical Society. 



Ref.: The history, constitution, and by-laws of the Department of natural history 



of the State historical and natural history society. Denver, 1897. 8. 

 Object. Collection, arrangement and preservation of books, pamphlets, maps, &c., 

 illustrative of the history of Colorado in particular and of the country in general ; 

 procuring of pioneer narratives ; gathering of information, specimens, &c., calcu- 

 lated to exhibit the antiquities, and the past and present resources and progress 



