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Object. To promote and encourage the exploration and description of the terri- 

 tories, coasts, islands and adjacent seas of the Argentine Republic and the coun- 

 tries which border upon it. 



Meetings. The Board of Directors meets fortnightly at the seat of the Institute. 

 Regular annual meeting in May; other general meetings as called. 



Membership. 340 active (entrance fee, 8 pesos ; monthly dues, 2 pesos) ; 25 corre- 

 sponding. 



Publications. 



BOLETIN . . . t. I-XX 1 1, 1879-1904. Buenos Aires, i88i-[ 1905?] 4. 



t. 10, cuad. n, 12 (on cover: Edicion especial dedicada al Dr. Estanislao 



Zeballos, por sus amigos). 



Apuntaciones para la bibliografia argentina, by E. S. Zeballos: in t. 17-20. 

 Indice general de las materias contenidas en el Boletin, t. 1-16: in t. 17. 



p. 262-291. 

 Price: I peso per month, postage included. 



Expedicion austral argentina. Informes preliminares presentados a 

 los ministros del interior y de guerra y marina de la Republica Argen- 

 tina por G. Bove, y publicados bajo la direccion del Institute . . . 

 Buenos Aires, 1883. 8. 



Atlas de la Republica Argentina ; construido y publicado por resolucion 



del Instituto geografico argentine bajo los auspicios del ... gobierno 



nacional y redactado por el Dr. Arturo Seelstrang . . . Buenos Aires, 



1886. fol. 



Limites internacionales. La cuestion Misiones. Trabajos publicados 



en el Boletin del Instituto . . . Buenos Aires, 1892. 8. 

 Los Indios Matacos y su lengua, por Juan Pelleschi, con una introduc- 

 cion por S. A. Lafone Quevedo, pub. en el Boletin del Instituto . . . 

 t. 17-18. Buenos Aires, 1897. 4. 

 Distribution. Exchange. On sale at the Institute. 



Prises. A medal "Benemerito de la geografia nacional" awarded for ex- 

 ceptional services to the Institute or to the geography of the Re- 

 public. 



Jardin Zoologico Municipal de Buenos Aires. 



Address. Palermo, Buenos Aires. Director: Clemente Onelli. 



History. Originally a part of the Parque 3 de Febrero, opened in 1875 

 as a government park but transferred to the municipality of Buenos 

 Aires in 1888, in which year the management of the Jardin zoologico 

 was separated from that of the park. 



Ref. : Guia popular del Jardin, 1904, p. 5-8. 



Publications. 



Revista . . . t. I-II. Buenos Ayres, 1893-94. 8. m. 



A new series was to be issued from Aug. 1904. Price: 70 centavos per 

 number. 



