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Minor Historical Societies. 



CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Urbana, 111. Incorporated 1899. Annual 

 meetings. 



DE KALB COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. De Kalb, 111. Incorporated Feb. 19, 1900. 

 No publications. 



EVANSTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Evanston, 111. Incorporated Nov. 21, 1898. 2 or 3 

 meetings a year. Annual dues, $i ; life membership, $25. Publ: Our Indian 

 predecessors the first Evanstonians. By F. R. Grover. Evanston, 111., 1901. 8 3 . 



LOGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Lincoln, 111. 



MARAMECH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF KENDALL COUNTY. President : John F. Steward, 

 1899 Sheridan Road, Chicago, 111. Organized Jan. 22, 1900. No publications. 



MASSAC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Metropolis, 111. 



MORGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Jacksonville, 111. Secretary : Frank J. Heinl. 

 Chartered Nov. 30, 1904. Meetings on 3d Fridays of Jan., Mar., May, Sept. 

 and Nov. 59 annual members (dues, $i) ; 9 life ($10). No publications as yet. 



OLD SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF RANDOLPH COUNTY. Chester, 111. 



PEORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Peoria, 111. 



QUINCY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Chamber of Commerce building, Quincy, 111. Organ- 

 ized and incorporated in 1896. Meetings 3 times a year. About 100 members 

 (annual dues, $i ; life composition, $10). Publ.: History of the city of Quincy, 

 111., by Gen. John Tillson; rev. and cor. by W. H. Collins. Chicago, [19 ?]. 4. 



WHITESIDE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Sterling, 111. Organized in Jan. 1903. 

 Room in city hall. 



Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. 



Address. University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



History. Originated in 1862 as the Museum of the old Illinois Natural 

 History Society ; collections made over to the State in 1871; name 

 changed in 1876 to Illinois Museum of Natural History. Converted in 

 1877 mto the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History in accord- 

 ance with the law establishing a State museum at Springfield. Trans- 

 ferred by Act of the Legislature in 1885 from the Illinois State Normal 

 School at Normal, 111., to the University of Illinois, at Urbana, from 

 which, however, it is entirely separate as to support and management. 



Publications. 



BULLETIN . . . v. I-VI. Bloomington, 111. [etc.]. 1884-1903. 8 (v. 



6 ? 4). 



v. i issued as Bulletins no. 1-6: The natural history of Illinois. Bulletin 

 no. 1-2. 1876-78. no. 3, 1880 (2d ed. 1903) and no. 6, 1883, Studies of 

 the food of birds, insects and fishes made at the Illinois State laboratory 

 of natural history at Normal, 111. no. 4, A revised catalogue of the birds 

 ascertained to occur in Illinois. no. 5, Descriptive catalogue of North 



"Founded 1858. Published Transactions . . . v. I, series I. Springfield, 1861. 

 (2d ed. 1862.) 



