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Title varies : 1880. The Michigan association of surveyors and civil en- 

 gineers. 1881-82. 2d-3d meeting . . . 1883-88. Proceedings . . . 

 4th-Qth annual meeting (later convention) 1889-99. The Michigan 

 engineers' annual, containing the proceedings . . . 1900-05, as above. 

 Proceedings of the 7th and 8th conventions issued combined. 

 Proceedings 1880-81 reprinted 1893 and issued with cover-title : The 



Michigan engineers' annual, 1880-81. 

 Prices: 1880-84, soc. each; 1885, 75c. ; 1896-97, $1.25 each; 1898-1905, $l 



each ; other volumes, o. p. 

 Distribution. Exchange with similar publications. On sale by the Secretary. 



Michigan Ornithological Club. 



Address. Secretary: Alexander W. Blain, Jr., 131 Elmwood Avenue, 

 Detroit, Mich. 



History. Founded Dec. 5, 1894, at Grand Rapids, Mich., as Kent Ornith- 

 ological Club; present name adopted Dec. 12, 1895. Inactive from be- 

 ginning of 1899 to Feb. 13, 1903, when it was reorganized in Detroit. 

 The club has a permanent committee on Geographical Distribution. 

 The Audubon Society of the State of Michigan, organized Feb. 27, 

 1904, is an auxiliary to the club, for the protection of birds. 



Object. Promotion of the science of ornithology in the Great Lakes region. 

 Meetings. 1st Friday of Feb., May, Aug. and Nov. in the Museum of Art, De- 

 troit; annual meeting at same time and place as that of Michigan Academy 

 of Science. 



Membership. 120 active (annual dues, $i) ; 12 patrons (annual dues, $5) ; 5 

 honorary. 



Publications. 



BULLETIN . . . v. I-VI. Grand Rapids, 1897-99; Detroit, [1903-05], 

 8. q. 



no. 3 and 4 of v. 3 never published. 



Prices: Soc. a year (to foreign countries in the Postal union, 75c.) ; 



single numbers, I5c. At present temporarily suspended. 



Distribution. Exchange. On sale by the business manager, Fred C. Hubel, 

 112 Alexandrine Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 



Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. 



Address. Box 294, Lansing, Mich. Secretary: Henry R. Pattengill. 

 History. Organized Apr. 22, 1874, as the Pioneer Society of the State 

 of Michigan*; present name adopted in 1887. Changes in name of 

 society occur in title of publication as noted below. Annual appropria- 

 tion from the State. 



Ref.: Historical collections, v. 32, p. 4-7. 



Preceded by, but not connected with, the Historical Society of Michigan, organ- 

 ized and incorporated in 1828, inactive since 1861. The collections of this earlier 

 society are in the possession of the Detroit Public Library. For its publications, see 

 Griffin, Bibl. Amer. hist, soc. 



