482 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



CENTRAL AMERICA. 



COSTA RICA. 



Institute Fisico-Geografico Nacional de Costa Rica. 



Address. San Jose de Costa Rica. Director: Enrique Pittier. 



History. Founded by executive decree of Apr. 7, 1888, under the name 

 Institute meteorologico de Costa Rica; reorganized under act of July 

 n, 1889, and united with the Museo nacional (founded by executive 

 decree of May 4, 1887) under the present name. The Museum, how- 

 ever, continued under separate direction until 1901, when it was defi- 

 nitively transferred to the Institute. 



Object. Study of the climatic conditions, geography, geology and natural history 

 of Costa Rica, and completion of a topographic survey of the country. 



Publications. 



Anales del Museo nacional de Costa Rica. t. I, ano de 1887. San Jose, 

 1888. 4. 



Continued in the following: 



ANALES del Institute fisico-geografico nacional de Costa Rica, t, 

 I-VII, IX, 1888-96. San Jose de Costa Rica, 1889-98. fol. 



t. I has title : Boletin trimestral del Institute meteorologico nacional. 

 t. 3-4 have title : Anales del Institute fisico-geografico y del Museo 

 nacional. t. i issued in 4 nos., t. 2 in 2 pts. 

 t. 8, incomplete (?). Primitiae florae costaricensis, t. 2, fasc. 1-2, "extrait 



des Anales . . . t. 8, 1895," is found in t. 9. 

 Museo nacional de Costa Rica . . . Informe, 1894/95-1899/1900. San 



Jose, 1895-1900. 4. 

 Informe sobre los trabajos practicados en el Institute fisico-geografico 



nacional de Costa Rica, 1896/97-1897/98. San Jose, 1897-98. 4. 

 BOLETIN del Institute fisico-geografico de Costa Rica. v. I-III (i. e. 

 no. 1-36) 1901-04. San Jose de Costa Rica, [1901-04]. 4. m. 

 v. 3 adds to title : "y Organo de la Sociedad nacional de agricultura." 

 Prices: $4 a year; single numbers, SQC. 

 Mamiferos de Costa Rica, por Anastasio Alfaro. Estudio cor. y aum. 



por J. A. Allen. San Jose, 1897. 8. 

 Also reprints of articles and administrative reports. 

 Distribution. Exchange. 



GUATEMALA. 



Academia Guatemalteca correspondiente de la Real Academia Espanola. 



Address. Guatemala. Secretary: Agustin Gomez Carrillo. 



History. Founded in 1888. 



Publications. 



Biografias de literates nacionales. t. I. [Guatemala], 1889. 8. 



