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Publications. 



Inauguration . . . Aug. 28, 1856. Albany, 1856. 8. 

 Annals . . . v. I-II. Albany, 1866-71. 8. 

 Reports of the astronomer. 



SCRANTON, PA. 



Lackawanna Institute of History and Science. 



Address. Scranton, Pa. 



Secretary: J. H. Fisher, 422 Adams Avenue. 

 History. Founded in 1885 and incorporated in 1886; at present inactive. 



The books and specimens of the society are stored with the Green Ridge 



Library Association, Green Ridge Street, Scranton. 



Object. Promotion and diffusion of general historical and scientific knowledge 

 among its members and in the community at large, and the establishment and 

 maintenance of a library, a museum and an historical record. 



Publications. 



Proceedings and collections ... v. I, Scranton, Pa., 1887. 8. 

 Historical series, no. 1-4. Scranton, [1887-96]. 8. 



no. I and 3 also numbered as Special publication, no. 1-2. 



Contents: no. i. Dr. B. H. Throop's historical notes. 1887. no. 2. Rem- 

 iniscences of the early history of Dark Hollow, Slocum Hollow, Har- 

 rison, Lackawanna iron works, Scrantonia, and Scranton, Pa., by J. C. 

 Platt. 1887? (Repr. 1896.) no. 3. Poets and poetry of the Wyoming 

 Valley, by W. S. Monroe. 1887. no. 4. The territory of Scranton im- 

 mediately prior to the Lackawanna iron and coal co. purchase, by E. 

 Merrifield. 1896. 

 No more published. 

 Scientific series, no. 5. [Scranton, Pa., 1896]. 8. 



Contents: The aim, purpose and administration of an institute of history 

 and science. 



The 3 memoirs contained in the volume of Proceedings, (i. e., Glaciation; 

 Notes upon the glacial striae observed in the Wyoming-Lackawanna 

 region; A preliminary list of vascular plants of the Lackawanna and 

 Wyoming Valleys) and a pamphlet entitled, Catalogue of the flower- 

 ing plants and vascular cryptogams found in and near the Lackawanna 

 and Wyoming Valleys, are considered no. 1-4 of this series. 



No more published. 



A number of miscellaneous publications were issued in 1858-59 in connection 

 with a controversy between the Director, Dr. B. A. Gould and the Trustees of the 

 observatory, in which the Scientific council of the observatory and citizens of Albany 

 also took part. 



