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Meetings. 2d and 4th Monday evenings of each month, at the Mechanics Institute. 

 Membership. 125 active (entrance fees, $5 for men, $2 for women; annual dues, 

 the same; life composition, $100) ; 8 honorary; 42 corresponding. 



Publications. 



PROCEEDINGS . . . v. 1-3, Jan. iSSp-Jan. 1902. Rochester, N. Y., 1891- 

 1906. 4. 



Published in brochures, v. 4 in progress, p. 1-231 issued Feb. 1901- 



June 1906. 



Distribution. Exchange. Sold by volumes, brochures, or separate articles; 

 for printed price list address the Librarian of the Academy. 



ROCK ISLAND, ILL. 



Augustana College and Theological Seminary. 



Address. Rock Island, 111. 



History. Founded in 1860; temporarily located at Chicago, 111.; re- 

 moved to Paxton, 111., in 1863, and to Rock Island in 1875. Originally 

 called Augustana Seminary; incorporated under the general law in 

 1863 as Augustana College and Seminary; chartered by special act of 

 the Legislature in 1865 ; present name since 1869. 



Publications. 

 Augustana library publications, no. 1-5. Rock Island, 111. 1898-1905. 4. 



Contents: no. i. The mechanical composition of wind deposits, by J. A. 

 Udden. 1898. no. 2. An old Indian village, by J. A. Udden. 1900. 

 no. 3. Studies in the idyl in German literature, by G. A. Andreen. 1902. 

 no. 4. On the cyclonic distribution of rainfall, by J. A. Udden. 1905. 

 no. 5. A preliminary list of fossil mastodon and mammoth remains in 

 Illinois and Iowa, by Netta C. Anderson. On the proboscidean fossils 

 of the Pleistocene deposits in Illinois and Iowa, by J. A. Udden. 1905. 



no. 2 is without serial numbering. 



ST. LOUIS, MO. 



Academy of Science of St. Louis. 



Address. 3817 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. 



History. Organized Mar. 10, 1856, succeeding to the library, collections, 

 and other property of the Western Academy of Science (chartered in 

 1837) ; incorporated Jan. 17, 1857. Library of about 15,000 books and 

 11,000 pamphlets. Museum destroyed by fire in 1869. 



Ref.: The Academy of natural science of St. Louis, by Frederick Starr 

 (In Popular science monthly, v. 52, 1897/98, p. 629-647.) The Academy 

 of science of St. Louis; a biography. By Wm. Trelease (In Popular 

 science monthly, Dec. 1903). Transactions, v. 16, no. i (Celebration of 

 50th anniversary of 1st meeting). 



