3 2 See Myra McAlmont Vaughan, "The First Historical Society 
Arkansas " in Arkansas Historical Association, Publ icat i 
II (1908), 346-353. This account is supplemented, and 
rected in many ways, by an article by Walter B. HendricKso 
"Culture in Early Arkansas: The Antiquarian and Natural 
History Society of Little Rock," in the March, 1958 number 
of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly 
an account of the Cleyeland Academy see Proceed ing| 
Cleveland Academy of Natural Science . 1845-1859 (Cleve- 
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3* See Fr-ederick Starr, "The Academy of Natural Science of St. 
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Luino- T^^TIToa "Th*» Arademv of Science of St. Louis: a 
William Trelease 
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117- 
130. Henry M. Whelpley,"A Sketch 
Academy," in Academy of Science of St. Louis, Transact 
XVI (1906), xxi-xxxii. 
^= For an account of the Chicago Academy, see *i"J*».J„/Jf ^^' 
"Historical Sketch of the Academy," in Chicago Academy of 
Science, Special Publication , Number 1 (Chicago, 190ii;. 
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