UNITED STATES 



Pennsylvania Prison Society. 



Address. s. w. corner of 5th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 General Secretary: John J. Lytle. 



History. Instituted May 8, 1787, and incorporated Apr. 6, 1833, as the 

 Philadelphia Society for Alleviating- the Miseries of Public Prisoners. 

 Name changed by decree of court, Jan. 27, 1886. The members of 

 the Acting committee of the society are by act of the legislature, 

 official visitors to all the penitentiaries, jails, reformatories and penal 

 institutions in the State, supported at public expense. 



Rcf.: Sketch of the principal transactions . . . from its origin to the 

 present time. (In Journal of prison discipline and philanthropy, v. 14, 

 no. 2. 1859.) 



Object. To improve prison conditions ; to procure reforms in penal legislation ; 

 to give aid to, and secure employment for, discharged prisoners. 



Meetings. Quarterly meetings, 4th Thursday in April, July and Oct. Annual 

 meeting, 4th Thursday in Jan. Meetings of the Acting committee, 3d Thursday 

 of each month, July and Aug. excepted. 



Membership. 172 annual (dues, $2) ; 38 life ($20) ; 2 honorary. 



Publications. 



JOURNAL OF PRISON DISCIPLINE AND PHILANTHROPY, v. I-XVI, 1845- 

 1861. Philadelphia, 1845-61. 8. q. 



1845-56 (v. i-n), title reads: The Pennsylvania journal of prison disci- 

 pline and philanthropy. 

 -New series, no. 1-46, 1862-1907. Philadelphia, 1862- [1907]. 8. y. 



Distribution. Distributed gratuitously to the principal libraries in the United 

 States and Canada, to prison officials in America and Europe, to Boards of 

 Inspectors, and prominent persons wherever known. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Address. Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa. Librarian and Recording 

 Secretary : Edward J. Nolan. 



History. Instituted March 21, 1812; incorporated March 24, 1817. Sec- 

 tions of the Academy have been organized as follows : Biological and 

 microscopical section, formed in 1868 by the union of the Biological 

 department of the Academy (earlier Biological Society of Philadelphia) 

 and the Microscopical Society of Philadelphia; Conchological section, 

 organized in 1866; Entomological section organized in 1876, including 

 the American Entomological Society (v. infra} which was admitted 

 as a section of the Academy in the previous year (retaining, however, 

 its separate corporate existence) ; Botanical section organized in 1876; 

 Mineralogical and geological section organized in 1877; Ornithological 



