42O HANDBOOK OP LEARNED SOCIETIES 



WORCESTER, MASS. 



American Antiquarian Society. 



Address. Worcester, Mass. Librarian: Edmund M. Barton. 



History. Incorporated Oct. 24, 1812; first meeting Nov. 19 following. 

 First building of the society erected for it in 1819 by its founder, 

 Isaiah Thomas, whose collection of books, newspapers and pamphlets 

 formed the nucleus of the society's library, now amounting to about 

 125,000 volumes. Present building erected in 1853 with addition in 

 1878. Cabinet of Indian and archaeological specimens, those from 

 Yucatan and Central America being of especial interest. 



Ref. : The Worcester of 1898. Ed. by F. P. Rice, Worcester, 1899, p. 222- 

 224. History of Worcester Co., Mass. Ed. by D. H. Kurd, Philadelphia, 

 1889, v. II, p. 1523-1526. The library of the American antiquarian society. 

 (In American historical review, v. i, p. 378-380.) 



Object. Collection and preservation of the antiquities of the country. 

 Meetings. Annual meeting in Worcester on 3d Wednesday of Oct. ; semi-annual 



meeting in Boston on 3d Wednesday in Apr. 



Membership. American limited to 175 (entrance fee, $5; annual dues for all mem- 

 bers resident in New England, $5 ; life composition, $50) ; 34 foreign. 



Publications. 



PROCEEDINGS . . . May 31, 1843 Apr. 28, 1880. Worcester [etc.], 

 1843-80. 8. 



Issued semi-annually (none pub. between Oct. 23, 1843, and Oct. 23, 1849). 

 These pamphlets form no. 13-75 of the first series but serial numbering 

 does not appear on the publications until Proceedings, Oct. 21, 1867, 

 which is labeled no. 48; subsequent issues are regularly numbered 49-75, 

 except that corresponding to 52 which is without numbering; [no. 13-14] 

 were issued as v. I, no. 1-2. Addresses and other pamphlets published 

 by the society 1813-39 without common title or serial numbering are 

 listed chronologically as no. 1-12 in a circular "Minor publications" is- 

 sued in 1867, preparatory to the adoption of the serial numbering. In 

 the list of Proceedings and minor publications given in the "partial in- 

 dex" noted below, 3 additional publications are inserted as no. 7, 13 and 

 50 and the series is re-numbered accordingly, 

 -n. s. v. I-XVII, 1880/81-1905/06. Worcester, 1882-1907. 8. 



v. 1-3, 5-9, 11-17 each in 3 pts. ; v. 4 in 4 pts. ; v. 10 in 2 pts. 



v. 18 in progress, pt. 1-2 issued 1907. 



ARCH^OLOGIA AMERICANA. Transactions and collections . . . v. I-VII. 

 Worcester, [etc.] 1820-85. 8. 



v. 5-6: The history of printing in America, with a biography of printers, 

 and an account of newspapers. By Isaiah Thomas. 2d. ed. With the 

 author's corrections and additions, and a catalogue of American publi- 

 cations previous to the revolution of 1776. 2 v. 

 v. 7: Notebook kept by Thomas Lechford, 1638-41. 



