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Vermont Botanical Club. 



Address. Secretary: L. R. Jones, 46 N. Prospect Street, Burlington, Vt. 



History. Organized in July 1895. 



Object. Promotion of friendly intercourse among students of botany in Vermont, 

 and securing more thorough knowledge of the flora of the State. 



Meetings. 2 regular meetings annually, one in Jan. and one in July at places desig- 

 nated by the club or its officers ; the winter meeting is usually at Burlington, the 

 summer meeting at some other place in Vermont. 



Membership. About 150 (annual dues, soc.). 



Publications. 



BULLETIN, no. 1-2, Apr. 1906- Apr. 1907. Burlington, 1906-07. 8. y. 



Price: loc. per number. On sale by the Secretary. 



See also Contributions to the botany of Vermont under University of 

 Vermont. 



Vermont Historical Society. 



Address. Montpelier, Vt. Librarian : Edward M. Goddard. 



History. Incorporated Nov. 5, 1838, as the Vermont Historical and 

 Antiquarian Society; organized at Montpelier in 1840. Name changed 

 to present form by legislative act of Nov. 16, 1859. Library and col- 

 lections in the State House at Montpelier. Legislative appropriations 

 for care of books, &c., and for publication of society's Proceedings. 



Object. Discovery, collection and preservation of whatever relates to the material, 

 agricultural, industrial, civil, political, literary, ecclesiastical and military history 

 of the State of Vermont. 



Meetings. Annual meeting on the Tuesday preceding the 3d Wednesday in Oct. 

 at the State House in Montpelier ; special meetings at such time and place as 

 the managers may determine ; a public meeting in the State House during each 

 session of the legislature. 



Membership. 213 active (entrance fee, $2; annual dues, $i) ; 5 honorary; n cor- 

 responding. 



Publications. 



COLLECTIONS . . . v. I-II. Montpelier, 1870-71. 8. 

 Price: $4.50 per vol. 



PROCEEDINGS . . . 1860-1905/06. Burlington, [etc.], 1860- [1907]. 8. 

 Place of publication varies between Burlington, St. Albans, Montpelier and 

 Rutland. 2 nos. each for 1861 and 1862; none pub. for 1864-68, 1871, 

 1873-75, 1877, 1879, 1881, 1883-93, 1895, 1897. 1876 has title: History of 

 St. Albans raid, by E. A. Sowles. 1882 has title: Address on the life 

 and public services of the Hon. Samuel Prentiss. By E. J. Phelps, [etc.] 

 1894 has title : Address on early printing in America, by H. O. Hough- 

 ton [etc.]. 



A list of publications of the society; in Proceedings, 1898, p. 16-18. 

 Distribution. Exchange. (Distributed by the State, only a limited number of 

 copies being at the disposal of the society). Address the Librarian, E. M. 

 Goddard, Montpelier, Vt. 



