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Universidad de la Habana. 



Address. Habana. 



History. Founded Jan. 5, 1728 by the Dominican friars of the monastery 

 San Juan de Letran, under powers conferred by Papal bull of Sept. 

 12, 1721 ; title of Real y Pontificia Universidad bestowed by royal decree 

 of July 27, 1734; "y Pontificia" dropped when the University was 

 secularized in 1842 ; present name since the establishment of Cuban 

 independence. Jardin Botanico attached to the University in 1886. 



Ref. : Breve resefia de su fundacion hasta la epoca actual. (In Memoria 

 anuario . . . 1901/02, p. 5-21 ; 1905/06, p. 321-331.) 



Publications. 



REVISTA de la Facultad de letras y ciencias. v. I-IV, jul. i9O5-mayo 

 1907. [Habana], 1905-07. 4. 



bi-m. ; 3 nos. form a vol. 



Also inaugural addresses delivered at the beginning of each college 

 year and annual catalogue (Memoria anuario). 



Distribution. Exchange. Address communications to Secretario de la Facul- 

 tad de Letras y Ciencias, Universidad de la Habana. 



HAITI. 

 Societe Astronomique et Meteorologique de Port-au-Prince. 



Address. Port-au-Prince. President : Dr. Destouches. Director of the 



observatory: F. Constantin. 



History. Approved by the minister of the interior, Feb. 15, 1905. 

 Publications. 



Bulletin meteorologique du mois de juillet 1907. fol. 



JAMAICA. 



Institute of Jamaica. 

 Address. Date Tree Hall, Kingston, Jamaica, B. W. I. Secretary: 



Frank Cundall. 



History. Established in 1879, the libraries of the House of Assembly 

 and the old Legislative Council, and the museum of the Royal Society 

 of Arts and Agriculture, being transferred to the Institute by the law 

 constituting it. It comprises a library and reading room, a museum 

 and an art gallery. Its affairs are administered by a Board of Gov- 



Formed in 1864 by the amalgamation of the Royal Agricultural Society of 

 Jamaica (founded 1843 as the General Agricultural Society of Jamaica) and the 

 Royal Society of Arts (founded 1854). Publ: Transactions of the Royal Society of 

 Arts. v. I-III; Dec. :8S4-Dec. 1857. Kingston, [1854-57]. 4. Transactions of the 

 Incorporated Royal Society of Arts and Agriculture, July i867-Apr. 1868. Kingston, 

 [1867-68]. i v. in 4 nos. 4. 



