408 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



Object. Promotion of science, through holding meetings, publishing and distrib- 

 uting documents, conducting lectures, conducting, endowing or assisting investi- 

 gation in any department of science, acquiring and maintaining a library, etc. 



Meetings. At times and places determined by the Board of Managers (generally 

 at the Hubbard Memorial building) ; annual meeting, 3d Thursday of Jan. 



Membership. Only members of affiliated societies are eligible. 178 resident and 

 193 non-resident (annual dues, $5) ; 8 patrons ($1000 as a minimum or its equiva- 

 lent in property). 



Publications. 



PROCEEDINGS . . . v. I-VIII, 1899-1906. Washington, 1899/1900- 

 1906/07. 4. 



Issued in brochures and also in bound vols. 



Results of the Branner-Agassiz expedition to Brazil (1899). I-V: in 



v. 2-3. 

 Papers from the Harriman Alaska expedition (1899). I-XXX: in v. 2-4. 



Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Galapagos expedition, 1898-99. I-XVII : 



in v. 3-6. 

 Prices: $5 per vol. Price-list of the separate brochures issued with each 



vol. 



Directory of the Washington academy of sciences and affiliated so- 

 cieties. 1899-1907. [nth]-i6th year of publication. Washington, 

 D. C, 1899-1907. 8. 



Annual. None published in 1902, 1904 and 1906. Preceded by Directory of 

 scientific societies of Washington. 1889-1898. [ist]-ioth year of publica- 

 tion. Pub. by the Joint Commission. [Washington, 1889-98.] 8. 



Distribution. Proceedings sent to a selected list of libraries, societies and per- 

 sons prescribed by the Board of Managers. On sale by the Editor, Dr. B. W. 

 Evermann, Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C. 



WASHINGTON (STATE). 



Washington State Historical Society. 



Address. 303 City Hall, Tacoma, Wash. Secretary : Edward N. Fuller. 

 History. Organized Oct. 8, 1891 ; incorporated June 10, 1897. Not pro- 

 vided for by regular State appropriations. 



Ref.: Washington state historical society, by E. N. Fuller. (In Washing- 

 ton historian, v. I, p. 45.) 



Object. To formulate and preserve in permanent form the history of the Terri- 

 tory and State of Washington and especially the records and traditions of the 

 aboriginal peoples and the pioneers. 

 Meetings. Annually, on Jan. 20; bi-monthly meetings of the Board of Curators, at 



above address. 

 Membership. 50 annual (annual dues, $2) ; 22 life ($25). 



