UNITED STATES 251 



PROCEEDINGS . . . v. I-IV, 1872/88-1899/1905. Concord, [1874]- 

 1906. 8. 



Each volume originally issued in from 2 to 4 pts. with separate title-pages. 

 On verso of t.-p. of pts. 1-3 of v. i, it is stated that they form the 

 first 3 parts of v. 9 of the Collections. As issued complete, however, 

 v. 9 does not include them. 



Price: $2.50 a volume. 



For reports, etc., see Griffin, Bibl. Amer. hist. soc. 



Distribution. Exchange with historical societies without regard to value, and 

 with others at equivalent values. On sale at the society's rooms in Concord. 



Local Historical Societies. 



DOVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Dover, N. H. Secretary: Arthur G. Whittemore. 



Incorporated July 25, 1889. Quarterly meetings at Stafford National Bank. 



About 50 members. Publ.: Collections . . . v. I. Dover, 1894. 8. Exchanged 



by the Secretary. Also offered by C. W. Tibbetts, New Hampshire genealogical 



society, for exchange or for sale at $3. 

 MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION. See Manchester, N. H. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. Hopkinton, N. H. Curator: Miss S. U. 

 Kimball. Organized Nov. 19, 1859, as the Philomathic Club ; reconstituted in 

 1873 under the name New Hampshire Philomathic and Antiquarian Society; 

 incorporated in 1875 under present name. Collections located in the Long 

 Memorial Building, deeded to the society in 1890. Meetings irregular. Publ: 

 Collections . . . no. 1-4. Contoocook, 1874-79. 8. For contents see Griffin, 

 Bibl. Amer. hist. soc. 



NEW HAVEN, CONN. 



Yale University. 



Address. Yale Station, New Haven, Conn. President: Arthur T. 



Hadley. 



History. Chartered by the Colony legislature in Oct. 1701 as Collegiate 

 School of Connecticut and opened for instruction in Nov. following 

 at Saybrook, Conn.; removed to New Haven in Oct. 1716; name 

 changed to Yale College in Sept. 1718, in honor of the benefactions of 

 Elihu Yale, of London, formerly Governor of the East India Com- 

 pany's settlement at Madras; revised charter granted in 1745 in which 

 the corporation was styled The President and Fellows of Yale College 

 in New Haven ; use of the title Yale University authorized by act of 

 the General Assembly of Connecticut in Mar. 1887. Sheffield Scientific 

 School, endowed in 1860 by Joseph E. Sheffield, is a department of 

 the university under its own Board of Trustees, incorporated in 1871, 

 confirmed by act of the General Assembly in 1882 ; from 1863 to 1892 

 it was the College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts for Con- 

 necticut. 



