5<DO HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



Colegio de Abogados. 

 Address. Casilla de correo 60, La Paz. 



History. Founded in 1893 as successor to the Centro de Estudios Juri- 

 dicos. 



Object. Study of law and of national legislation; diffusion of juridical ideas; 



elevation of the legal profession. 



Meetings. Fortnightly at the house of some one of the members. 

 Membership. 28 active (entrance fee, 10 bolivianos; monthly dues, I boliviano); 



5 corresponding; 6 honarary. 



Publications. 



REVISTA JURIDICA. t. I (/. e. no. 1-22), mayo i893-marzo 1897. La 

 Paz, 1897. 8. 



t. 2 began Jan. 1903. 



Sub-title varies: 1893/97 (t. J) : Organo del Colegio de abogados; 

 1903, Publicacion quincenal de jurisprudencia, derecho y adminis- 

 tracion en que toman parte los Srs. miembros del Colegio de abogados. 



Price: 12 nos., 3 bolivianos; 6 nos., 1.60 bolivianos. 



Ley del procedimiento criminal de la Republica de Bolivia. La Paz, 



1898. 8. 

 Reglamento de imprenta de la Republica de Bolivia. Edicion oficial. 



La Paz, 1900. 8. 

 Distribution. Exchange. 



Sociedad Geografica de La Paz. 



Address. Calle Ingavi, La Paz. General Secretary: Luis S. Crespo. 

 Director of the meteorological observatory : F. Agustin Moral. 



History. Founded in July 1889 but dissolved shortly afterwards upon 

 the establishment at La Paz of a section of the Sociedad geografica de 

 Madrid ; reorganized in Feb. 1896. 4 sections : astronomical, physical, 

 political and commercial. Maintains a library. Meteorological ob- 

 servatory established in 1898 in the Colegio de San Calixto. 

 Rcf.: Boletin, ano 5, t. 5, p. 249-308. 



Object. Advancement of geographical knowledge of Bolivia. 



Meetings. Irregular. 



Membership. 34 active; 64 corresponding; 13 honorary; 15 honorary correspond- 

 ing. 



Publications. 



BOLETIN de la Sociedad . . . num. 1-2. julio-sept. 1889; ano I-V, 

 t. I-V (i. e. num. 1-23), 1898-1904. La Paz, 1889; [1898] -1904. 8. 

 Boletin del Observatorio meteorologico. no. 1-4, mar. i898-mar. 1901. 

 La Paz, 1898-1901. 8. 



Continued in Boletin de la Sociedad . . . from t. Ill, no. 7 y 8, abril 

 y mayo de 1901. 



