526 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



PERU. 



LIMA. 



Academia Peruana Correspondiente de la Espanola. 



Address. Lima. Permanent secretary: Luis B. Cisneros. 

 History. Installed in 1887; inactive since 1893. 

 Membership. 5, limited to 12. 



Publications. 



Anales de la Academia correspondiente de la Real Espanola en el 

 Peru. 1887. Lima, 1887. 4. 



Ateneo de Lima. 



Address. Altos de la Biblioteca Nacional, Lima (Apartado 32). Secre- 

 tary : Francisco Garcia Calderon y Rey. 



History. Established in 1886 as successor to the Club Literario, with 

 a widened sphere of activity. 



Object. Encouragement of all forms of literary and scientific activity. 



Meetings. Regular general assembly biennially on the ist of July; others when 



deemed necessary by the Board of Directors. 



Membership. 25 active (entrance fee, 5 soles ; monthly dues, I sol) ; 20 corre- 

 sponding; 5 honorary. 

 Publications. 



El Ateneo de Lima. Publication mensual. t. 1-6, ano I-III. 1886- 



1888. Peru, 1886-88. 4. 



El Ateneo; organo del Ateneo de Lima. t. I-VI (i. e., num. 1-38). 

 Lima, 1899-1906. q. 



Price: i sol per number; 4 soles per annum. 

 Distribution. Exchange. 



Escuela de Ingenieros. 



A ddress. Lima. 



History. Established in 1876 as the Escuela Especial de Construcciones 

 Civiles y Minas ; present name since 1898 (in common use earlier, 

 see publications). The school consists of (i) Seccion preparatoria ; 

 (2) Secciones especiales, viz: (a) Construcciones civiles, (b) Minas, 

 (c) Industrias (est. 1901), (3) Seccion complementaria de Electricidad 

 (est. 1903). It has laboratories for assaying, metallurgy, micro- 

 petrology and applied electricity, which, with its museums and col- 

 lections, afford opportunity for investigation to specialists in technical 

 subjects. 



Ref.: Boletin de minas, etc., ano XX, no. 1-2. 



a Publ: Anales de la Seccion de literatura, 1873/74-1875/76; 1885. Lima, 1874-76; 

 1885. 4. Sesion del jueves 30 de marzo de 1876. Poema lirico del distinguido 

 poeta Numa Pompilio Llona. Lima, 1876. 8. 



