UNITED STATES 213 



NATURE STUDY, v. I-V, no. 2, June igoo-July 1904. Manchester, N. H., 

 1901-04. 8. m. 



Published under the auspices of the Institute; now suspended. 

 Price: 500. per annum. 

 Distribution. Exchange, On sale at the Institute. 



MARYLAND. 



Maryland Academy of Sciences. 



Address. 105 W. Franklin Street, Baltimore, Md. Secretary: Edward 

 Stabler, Jr. 



History. Founded in 1863 as an outgrowth of a Committee on Natural 

 History, formed in 1855 by the Maryland Historical Society; incor- 

 porated in 1867. The Museum of the Academy contains 500,000 speci- 

 mens representing the natural history of the State of Maryland. 

 >Ref.: Transactions, v. I, n. s., p. i-io. 



Object. Cultivation of a scientific spirit in the community, acquirement of wider 

 and more accurate information respecting the natural resources of the State 

 of Maryland, and the establishment of a museum of the natural history of 

 Maryland. 



Meetings. Monthly, ist Monday, July, Aug. and Sept. excepted, at the Museum 

 building, above address. 



Membership. 250 active (annual dues, $3) ; 25 life ($100) ; 28 honorary. 

 Publications. 



TRANSACTIONS . . . v. I, new series, 1888-1900. Baltimore, 1901. 8. 



v. 2 in progress. Price: $1.50 per vol. 

 Distribution. Exchange. On sale by the Secretary. 



Maryland Historical Society. 



Address. Baltimore, Md. Assistant Secretary and Librarian: Geo. W. 

 McCreary. 



History. Founded and incorporated in 1844. Occupies the Athenaeum 

 Building, held for it in perpetuity under charter granted by the legis- 

 lature of Maryland, Dec. session, 1845. Library of about 40,000 vol- 

 umes and 10,000 pamphlets (including the collections of the Baltimore 

 Library Company) ; several thousand manuscripts; collection of coins, 

 maps, etc.; fine arts gallery. 



Ref.: History, possessions and prospects . . . Inaugural discourse of B. Mayer, 

 Mar. 7, 1867. (Fund publication, no. I.) Account by B. C. Steiner in the 

 New Pedagogue, Feb. 1900, p. 101-102. 



An earlier society, Maryland Academy of Science and Literature, organized 

 in 1822, chartered in 1826, reorganized in 1836 and dissolved in 1844, published 

 Transactions . . . v. I. Baltimore, 1837. 8. 



