39O HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



Biological Society of Washington. 



Address. Washington, D. C. Corresponding Secretary: W. H. Osgood, 



Bureau of Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 History. Organized in Dec. 1880; not incorporated. 



Object. Increase and diffusion of biological knowledge. 



Meetings. Alternate Saturdays, Oct. to May, in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos 



Club. 

 Membership. 276 (annual dues, $1.50; for members receiving the Proceedings, 



$3; life composition, $50). 



Publications. 



PROCEEDINGS . . . v. I-XIX, Nov. 19, i88o-Dec. 8, 1906. Wash- 

 ington, 1882-1906. 8. 



v. 1-4 published with the cooperation of the Smithsonian institution; 

 v. i issued also in Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, v. 25; v. 2 

 issued also as Smithsonian institution publication 545. 

 v. 7 ff. published in separate brochures, each consisting of a single paper. 

 Prices: v. 1-6, $i each; v. 7, $2.85; v. 8, $2.80; v. 9, $2.65; v. 10-18, $3 

 each. Prices of separate brochures vary according to size of the papers, 

 from IDC. upward. 



Distribution. Exchange with societies and institutions offering kindred publi- 

 cations of an equivalent value. On sale by the Corresponding Secretary, from 

 whom price-lists may be obtained. 



Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Address. Washington, D. C. President: Robert S. Woodward. 



History. Founded by Andrew Carnegie Jan. 28, 1902, with an endow- 

 ment of $10,000,000 in registered 5% bonds (increased Dec. 1907 by a 

 further gift of $2,000,000) . Originally organized as a corporation under 

 the law of the District of Columbia, with the name Carnegie Institution ; 

 incorporated by act of Congress approved Apr. 28, 1904 as the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington. 



Object. To encourage, in the broadest and most liberal manner, investigation, 

 research, and discovery, and the application of knowledge to the improvement of 

 mankind. 



Publications. 



PUBLICATIONS . . . Washington, D. C., 1902-07. 8 & 4. 



Each has special t.-p. ; series title and number on verso of t.-p. 



nos. 13, 14, 22, 38, 83, 91, form a sub-series Papers of the Department [or 



Bureau] of historical research, 

 nos. 23, 24, 30, 48, 49, 52, 70, 81 numbered also as papers of the Station for 



experimental evolution, nos. 1-9. 



1. The Carnegie institution of Washington, D. C. Founded by Andrew 

 Carnegie, 1902. 1902. 8. o. p. 



2. Articles of incorporation, deed of trust, etc. 1902. 8. o. p. 



