UNITED STATES 287 



Columbus memorial volume. Published by the Joint committee of 

 the Catholic club and the U. S. Catholic historical society. New 

 York, 1893. 8. 



Distribution. Exchange. On sale by Benziger Bros., publishers, 36 Barclay 

 Street, New York. 



NEW YORK (STATE). 



American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society. 



Address. Tribune Building, New York City, N. Y. Secretary: Edward 

 Hagaman Hall. 



History. Originally incorporated in 1895 by act f tne legislature of 

 the State of New York as Trustees of Scenic and Historic Places and 

 Objects; title changed in 1898 to Society for the Preservation of Scenic 

 and Historic Places and Objects; present name since 1901. 



Object. To make recommendations to any municipality in the State of New 

 York, respecting improvements in the scenic or material conditions thereof; 

 to acquire historic objects or memorable or picturesque places in the State 

 or elsewhere in the United States ; to hold real and personal property, and to 

 improve the same, admission to be free to the public under such rules for the 

 proper protection thereof as the corporation may prescribe, and the property 

 to be exempt from taxation within the State of New York. 



Meetings. Annual meeting, 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in Jan.; several 

 public meetings yearly. 



Membership. Classified as annual (dues, $5), sustaining (annual dues, $25), life 

 ($100), patrons ($500), and honorary. 



Publications. 



ist- nth annual report, 1896-1906. Albany, 1896-1906. 8. 



Presented to the legislature of the State of New York, and printed as 

 State documents. 



The old martyrs' prison, New York; an historical sketch of the oldest 

 municipal building in New York city . . . [New York, 1902.] 8. 



Stony Point battle-field ; a sketch of its revolutionary history . . . New 

 York, 1902. 12. 



Holland Society of New York. 



Address. 348 Broadway, New York City, N. Y. Secretary: Henry L. 



Bogert, 99 Nassau Street. 

 History. Founded Apr. 30, 1885. 



Object. Collection and preservation of information respecting the early history 

 and settlement of the City and State of New York by the Dutch ; discovery, 

 collection and preservation of all still existing documents, etc., relating to their 

 genealogy and history; preparation and publication, when requisite materials 

 have been discovered and procured, of collections for a memorial history of the 



