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PHILADELPHIA BOTANICAL CLUB. 



Address. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa. President: 

 Joseph Crawford. 



Object. Cultivation of local botany. 

 Meetings. Monthly, 4th Thursday. 



Publications. 



Handbook of the flora of Philadelphia and vicinity. By Ida A. Keller 

 and S. Brown. Philadelphia, 1905. 

 Price: $2. 



American Academy of Political and Social Science. 



Address. West Philadelphia Station, Philadelphia, Pa. Secretary: Carl 

 Kelsey, University of Pennsylvania. Counsel: Clinton Rogers Wood- 

 ruff, 705 North American Building. 



History. Founded in Philadelphia, Dec. 14, 1889; incorporated April 4, 

 1891. The Philadelphia Social Science Association (founded in 1869 

 as a local branch of the American Association for the Promotion of 

 Social Science) was merged in the Academy immediately after the 

 latter's organization, transferring to it its membership, library and 

 publications. 



Ref.: Handbook of the Academy (Supplement to the Annals, May, 1901). 

 Work of the Philadelphia Social Science Association, by J. C. Rosen- 

 garten. (In Annals, v. i, 1890, p. 708-719.) 

 Object. Promotion of the political and social sciences in the comprehensive sense 



of those terms. 



Meetings. At irregular intervals during the winter months in the city of Phila- 

 delphia. 



Membership. About 4,000 (annual dues, $5); 124 life ($100). 

 Publications. 



Philadelphia social science association. Papers of 1871- [1889]. Phila- 

 delphia, [1871-89]. 60 nos. 8. 



Separate papers (many of them reprinted from the Penn monthly) with- 

 out serial numbering and, in many cases, without series title. 



Price: 2$c. each. Titles given in price-list of publications of the Academy, 

 1902. 



ANNALS of the American academy of political and social science, 

 v. I-XXIX. Philadelphia, 1890-1907. 8. 



q., July i890-June 1891 (v. i) ; bi-m., July iSgi-May 1907 (v. 2-29); 2 v. 

 yearly from July 1895. 



In recent vols. each number is largely devoted to papers on a special 

 topic, e. g. Business management and finance (Jan. 1905), City life and 

 progress (Mar. 1905), Child labor (May 1905, Mar. 1906, Jan. 1907), 

 The United States as a world power (July 1905), Insurance (Sept. 



