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i st-4th quarterly bulletin . . . Mar.-Dec. 1892. [Philadelphia, 1892.] 8. 



No more published. 



For special publications, sec Griffin, Bibl. Amer. hist. soc. 

 Distribution. Exchange. On sale by the society at the above address. 



American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting 

 Useful Knowledge. 



Address. 104 S. 5th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Address all correspond- 

 ence to the Secretaries. 



History. Founded in 1743 on the initiative of Benjamin Franklin, as the 

 American Philosophical Society; united in 1769 with the American 

 Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge and 

 present name adopted; incorporated in 1780. Site for the society's 

 building in the old State House Square granted by the General Assembly 

 in 1785 ; building occupied since 1789. Library of about 50,000 volumes. 



Ref.: Celebration of the looth anniversary, May 25, 1843. (In Proceed- 

 ings, v. 3, no. 27, 1843.) Commemoration of the centennial anniver- 

 sary of the society's occupation of its present hall, Nov. 21, 1889. (In 

 Proceedings, v. 27, no. 131, 1889.) The American Philosophical So- 

 ciety, 1743-1903. By J. G. Rosengarten. Philadelphia, 1903. (Reprinted 

 from the Philadelphia magazine of history and biography, July 1903.) 

 Object. As stated in the title. 

 Meetings. 1st and 3d Friday of each month, Oct. to May, in the society's hall; 



a general meeting annually in April, extending usually over 3 days. 

 Membership. 522 (entrance fee, $10; annual dues, $5, exacted only from persons 

 resident within 30 miles of the hall of the society; life composition, $100). An- 

 nual elections at the general meeting in April ; number to be elected in any one 

 year limited to 15 resident in the United States and 5 non-resident. 



Publications. 



TRANSACTIONS . . . v. I-VI, 1769/71-1809. Philadelphia, 1771-1809. 



4. 



v. i, 1st ed. 8; 2d ed. (1789) 4. 



- n. s. v. I-XX, 1818-1899/1902. Philadelphia, 1818-1902. 4. 



Issued in parts irregularly, v. 21 in progress. 

 Price: $5 per vol. 



PROCEEDINGS . . . v. I-XLV (i. e. no. 1-184), 1838-1906. Philadel- 

 phia, 1840-1906. 8. 



Issued in brochures irregularly, v. I reprinted 1864. 



" Early proceedings of the . . . society from ms. minutes of its meetings 



1744-1838" with imprint date, 1884, is pub. as v. 22, pt. 3, July 1885. 

 r. 27: Proceedings commemorative of the centennial anniversary of the 



first occupation of the hall of the society, Nov. 21, 1889. 

 v. 32: 1743-1893. Proceedings commemorative of the one hundred and 



fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the ... society. May 22-26, 1893. 

 Price: $3 per year. 



