SOUTH AMERICA 517 



Indices alfabeticos de autores i de materias, t. I-X (Santiago, 1897) ; 

 issued zvith t. 10. 



Indice general de las materias publicadas en los tomos I-XVIII inclu- 

 sive. Santiago de Chile, 1902. 4. 



Prices: $2.50 per annum; single numbers, $0.25. 



Continued as : 



ANALES del Institute de injenieros de Chile, t. I-VI, 1901-06. San- 

 tiago de Chile, 1901-06. 4. m. 



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Distribution. Exchange with publications of similar character. On sale at 

 the office of administration, above address. 



Museo Nacional. 



Address. Santiago de Chile. (Casilla 787.) Director: Federico Philippi. 

 History. Founded in 1830 as a natural history collection under the direc- 

 tion of the French naturalist, Claude Gay. After the departure of 

 Gay from Chile in 1842, the museum was closed until 1853, when Dr. 

 R. A. Philippi was named director, continuing in this position until 

 1897, when the administration passed into the hands of his son, the 

 present director. The museum is situated in the Ouinta Normal, 

 occupying part of the building erected for the International Exposi- 

 tion of 1875. It comprises sections of zoology, botany, entomology, 

 mineralogy, geology and paleontology, and ethnology. It has also a 

 library. 



Ref. : Das Nationalmuseum in Santiago de Chile, von Dr. L. Darapsky. 

 (In Verhandlungen des Deutschen wissenschaftlichen Vereins zu San- 

 tiago. 5. Heft. 1887.) 



Publications. 



ANALES . . . entrega 1-17. Santiago de Chile, 1891-1905. fol. 



no. 1-7, 12-15, memoirs in zoology; no. 8, 9 and 17, in botany; no. 10, in 

 mineralogy; no. n, in ethnography; no. 16, La Isla de La Mocha, a 

 general scientific survey. 



Papers published also in Anales de la Universidad de Chile. 



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Sociedad Cientifica de Chile. (Societe scientifique du Chili.) 

 Address. Santiago de Chile. (Casilla 12 D.) 



History. Founded in 1891 by a group of Frenchmen as Societe scien- 

 tifique du Chili, which name is still used in the title of the publica- 

 tions. In 1896, when the statutes were first printed in Spanish, which 

 thus became the official language, the name of the society became by 

 translation Sociedad cientifica de Chile. It is at present directed by 

 Chilians, has members of all nationalities, and receives a subvention 

 from the government. 



