4IO HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



Historical Societies. 



WEST VIRGINIA HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, organized Jan. 30, 1890 and 

 incorporated Feb. n following, received annual appropriations from the State 

 legislature down to 1903 and occupied rooms in the State house at Charleston. In 

 1905 its library and collections were transferred to the Department of Archives 

 and History, created by act of the legislature in Feb. of that year; since then no 

 meetings have been held and the society has practically ceased to exist. Publ.: 

 The West Virginia historical and antiquarian society. An historical sketch of its 

 origin and progress, with its constitution, by-laws and rules, etc. 1891. 8. 

 3d [i. e. 2d] annual report of the Secretary. Charleston, 1892. 8. Proceed- 

 ings of the 8th annual meeting, 1898. 8. Minutes of the 9th-ioth annual 

 meeting . . . 1899, 1900. 8. West Virginia historical magazine quarterly, v. 

 I-V, no. 2, Jan. igoi-Apr. 1905. Charleston, W. Va., [1901-05]. 8. No more 

 published. 



An earlier society with a similar name, WEST VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, was 

 organized at Morgantown in 1869 and suspended its activities in 1884. Publ.: 

 Proceedings, v. I, pt. I. Morgantown, 1871. 8. This organization was revived 

 in 1901 as the TRANSALLEGHENY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, inactive since 1902. Publ.: 

 Transallegheny historical magazine, v. I-II, no. i, Oct. igoi-Oct. 1902. Morgan- 

 town [1901-02]. 8. q. No more published. 



WILKES-BARRE, PA. 



Wyoming Commemorative Association. 



Address. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Secretary : F. C. Johnson. 



History. Founded in 1877; incorporated Dec. 31, 1881. 



Object. Observance of the anniversary of the battle and massacre of Wyoming, 



July 3, 1778. 



Meetings. Annually on July 3 at the Wyoming monument. 

 Membership. 235 (annual dues, $i). 



Publications. 



Wyoming. A record of the one hundredth year commemorative ob- 

 servance of the battle and massacre, July 3, 1778-July 3, 1878. Wilkes- 

 Barre, Pa., 1882. 8. 



Includes proceedings to 1881 inclusive. Lettered: Wyoming memorial. 

 Price: $2. 



Reports of the proceedings ... on the occasion of the anniversaries 

 of the battle and massacre of Wyoming, 1882-1888. [Wilkes-Barre, 

 1900.] 8. 



Proceedings for the years 1889-1892 not yet printed. 



