47O HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



being associated with the commission as honorary members until 1849 

 when they were admitted to active membership. Reorganized under 

 present name in 1850; incorporated in 1851 by act of Congress, which 

 granted an annual subvention to the society and named the Ministro 

 de relaciones (now Ministro de fomento) as its president ex-officio. 

 Meetings suspended at various times on account of political disturbances. 



Ref.: La Sociedad mexicana de geografia y estadistica. Resena historica 

 escrita por Enrique de Olavarria y Ferrari. Mexico, 1901. 8. 

 Resena historica de la Sociedad, por Eduardo Noriega. (In Boletin 

 especial para el cuadragesimo noveno aniversario de la fundacion de la 

 Sociedad. Mexico, 1900. p. 109-131.) 



Object. To make investigations in Mexican geography and statistics and to act 



as adviser to the government in this field. 

 Meetings. Weekly, on Thursdays. 

 Membership. 40 de numero ; also corresponding and honorary members ; no dues. 



'Juntas auxiliares' have been established in the various states and territories of 



the republic, each consisting of at least 5 members and meeting at least once 



a week. 



Publications. 



BOLETIN . . . Mexico, 1839/50- 1902 [-06]. 27 v. 8. 



The 1st vol. is made up of n nos. issued Mar. 1839, July 1849- Apr. 1850. 

 [no. i] reprinted 1850 (in 72 p. instead of the original 56 p.) ; no. 2-6 

 at various dates from 1850 to 1857; vol. t.-p. for the set printed 1861. 



The rest are numbered in series: t. 2-12; 2" epoca, t. 1-4; 3" epoca, t. 1-6; 

 4 s epoca, t. 1-4; 5" epoca, t. i. 



Title varies : Mar. 1839, Boletin del Institute nacional de geografia y 

 estadistica de la Republica mexicana; July-Dec. 1849, Boletin de geo- 

 grafia y estadistica de la Republica mexicana . . . por la Comision de 

 estadistica militar; 1850-66, Boletin de la Sociedad mexicana de geo- 

 grafia y estadistica; 1869-1906, Boletin de la Sociedad de geografia y 

 estadistica de la Republica mexicana. 



Several of the following publications were issued in signatures with various 

 numbers of the Boletin, or were reprinted in or from it: 



Noticias historicas y estadisticas de la antigua provincia del Nuevo- 

 Mexico, por Pedro Bautista Pino, 1812. Adicionadas por A. Barreiro 

 en 1839; y ultimamente anotadas por J. A. de Escudero. Mexico, 

 1849. 8. 



Coleccion polidiomica mexicana que cbntiene la Oracion dominical 

 vertida en cincuenta y dos idiomas indigenes de aquella republica. 

 Mexico, 1860. fol. 



Reprinted with additions in Boletin, 4" epoca, t. i (1888). 



Noticias para formar la historia y la estadistica del obispado de 

 Michoacan, por Jose Guadalupe Romero. Mexico, 1862. 4. 



