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National Association of Comptrollers and Accounting Officers. 



Address. Secretary : Howard C. Beck, Detroit, Mich. 



History. Temporary organization effected at a meeting held at Wash- 

 ington, D. C., Feb. 14, 1906, in connection with the conference on uni- 

 form municipal accounting called by the Bureau of the Census ; organiza- 

 tion completed at ist annual meeting in Chicago, Sept. 26-27, 1906. 



Object. The consideration of improved methods of public finance and the extension 

 of the movement for the installation of a uniform system of State and municipal 

 accounting and reporting, properly captioned and classified, throughout the United 

 States, and the promotion of legislation towards these ends. 



Meetings. Annual conventions; place of meeting determined by the association at 

 the previous convention ; time fixed by the Executive committee. 



Membership. All comptrollers, auditors or other accounting or fiscal officers of 

 cities, counties and States in the United States and accountants regularly engaged 

 in State and municipal accounting are eligible to membership (annual dues, $10). 



Publications. 



Proceedings of the ist annual convention held at Chicago, Sept. 26-27, 

 1906, and of the preliminary organization at Washington, D. C., Feb. 

 14,1906. Detroit, Mich., [1906]. 8. 



New England Federation of Natural History Societies. 



Address. Secretary : J. H. Emerton, 194 Clarendon Street, Boston, Mass. 



History. Instituted Oct. 12, 1905. 



Object. To promote mutual knowledge of the work of the societies and personal 

 acquaintance among their members. To this end the Federation conducts meet- 

 ings and exhibitions ; the constitution provides that it shall not undertake research 

 or the publication of scientific memoirs. 



Meetings. Annual business meeting at Boston in Apr. ; other meetings at the call of 

 the Council, anywhere within the limits of New England. 



Membership. 24 societies: Appalachian Mountain Club (p. 109) ; Barton Chapter of 

 the Agassiz Association (Boston) ; Boston Mycological Club (p. in) ; Boston Scien- 

 tific Society (p. 112) ; Boston Society of Natural History (p. 113) ; Cambridge 

 Entomological Club (p. 116) ; Fall River Society of Natural History; Field and 

 Forest Club; Home and Field Club (Brookline, Mass.) ; Josselyn Botanical Society 

 of Maine (p. 208) ; Lawrence Natural History Society; Manchester Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences (p. 212); Marlborough Society of Natural History; Newport 

 Natural History Society (p. 297) ; Maynard chapter of the Newton Natural His- 

 tory Society ; New England Botanical Club (p. 119) ; Portland Society of Natural 

 History (p. 348); Providence Franklin Society; Rhode Island Field Naturalists' 

 Club; Science Club (Boston); Springfield Botanical Society (p. 375); Vermont 

 Botanical Club (p. 384) ; Vermont Bird Club (p. 383) ; Worcester Natural His- 

 tory Society (p. 422). Annual dues: $i for societies of less than 100 members; $2 

 for societies of 100 to 300 ; $5 for societies of 300 or more. 



"Address : 447 Crafts Street, West Newton, Mass. President : C. J. Maynard. 

 Founded Oct. 21, 1879, as Newton Natural History Society; incorporated Feb. 26, 1883; 

 present name since May 6, 1899. Meetings twice a month, ist and 3d Fridays. Publ.: 

 Bulletin of the Newton natural history society, v. I, 1889-90. An annotated catalogue 

 of the collections of the Maynard chapter. 1903. 



