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New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)

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New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)
Founding of the Society
Year
Authority / Notes
1817
According to its website (), this Academy was founded in 1817 as the Lyceum of Natural History in the City of New York.

It should be noted that the Lyceum was founded only three years after the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York. The two became rivals, in a sense, although the Lyceum was founded with a distinctly narrower scope, namely natural history. Not long after the founding of the Lyceum, the Society went into a protracted decline; its last recorded meeting occurred in 1834. By contrast, the Lyceum still exists, but under the name of New York Academy of Sciences.

Seat of the Society
City
Authority / Notes
New York City
United States of America
This location is supported by its website ().
Name of the Society
Dates
Name
Authority
1817 - 1874 Lyceum of Natural History in the City of New York Its website () gives this as the founding name; its publications gives this name for 1870, Apr. 4 - 1874, June 1.
1824 - 1877, June Lyceum of Natural History of New-York Its publications.
1877, July New York Academy of Sciences Its publications.
New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)
Journals of the Society
Years
Full Journal Title
Abbrev.
Indexed
1824 - 1877, June
(Vol.1, pt. the 1st - v.11, no.11-12)
 
A
Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York
Continued by C.
[Library of Congress cat.; Harvard Univ. cat.]
Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. N. York
[Phil. Trans., B Vol. 215 (1927), p.168 cites vol. 9 (1868).]
Ann. New York Lyceum Nat. Hist.
[J. Am. Geog. Soc. N. Y., Vol. 30, No. 5. (1898), p.404 cites IX, 1870.]
Annals Lyceum Nat. Hist., New York
[Phil. Trans., B Vol. 179 (1888), p.386 cites 1874.]
Annals of the Lyceum of Nat. Hist. N.Y.
[Phil. Trans., B Vol. 199 (1908), p.226 cites vol. 8, 1866.]
New York, Annal. Lyceum
[RSLC, v.1, p.lvi]
New York, Lyceum Annals
[RSLC, v.9, p.xxiv]
RSLC
1870, Apr. 4 - 1874, June 1
([1st ser., no.1] - 2nd ser., no.4)
 
B
Proceedings of the Lyceum of Natural History in the City of New York
Series 1 comprises 300 pages, apparently issued as a volume; ser. 2 has 156 pages, issued in numbers as follows: [no. 1] Jan. 3-Mar. 3, 1873; [no. 2] Mar. 10-June 2, 1873; no. 3, Oct. 6-Dec. 22, 1873; no. 4, Jan. 5-June 1, 1874.
[Harvard Univ. cat.]
New York Lyceum, Proc.
[RSLC, v.7, p.xxii]
RSLC
1877, July -
(v. 1- )
 
C
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
The entry in the RSLC, v.9, p.xxiv gives the title (for v.1, 1879 - v.2, 1882) as Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, late Lyceum of Natural History.
The entry in the RSLC, v.13, p.lxvii also gives the latter title for v.3, 1883/1885 - v.14, 1901/1903.
Issues for Jan. 1899-Oct. 1938 include D.
Continues A.
[Harvard Univ. cat.]
Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci.
[Phil. Trans., B Vol. 196 (1904), p.100 cites vol. 13, 1900.]
Annals N.Y. Acad. Sci.
[Phil. Trans., Vol. 198. (1906), p.403 cites vol.11 (1898).]
N. Y. Ac. Ann.
[RSLC, v.13, p.lxvii]
New York Acad. Annals
[RSLC, v.9, p.xxiv]
RSLC
1881, Oct. - 1897, Dec.
(v.1 - 16);
1938, Nov. - 1983
(ser.2, v.1 - 41)
 
D
Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences
The entry in the RSLC, v.9, p.xxiv gives the title (for v.1, 1881 - v.2, 1883) as Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, late Lyceum of Natural History.
The entry in the RSLC, v.13, p.lxvii also gives the latter title for v.3, 1885 - v.16, 1898.
Issues for Jan. 1899-Oct. 1938 published in C.
[Harvard Univ. cat.]
N. Y. Ac. Trans.
[RSLC, v.13, p.lxvii]
New York Acad. Trans.
[RSLC, v.9, p.xxiv]
Trans. N.Y. Acad. Sci.
[Phil. Trans., A Vol. 187 (1896), cites vol.13, 1893.]
RSLC
1895 -
 
E
Memoirs (New York Academy of Sciences)
[Harvard Univ. cat.]
N. Y. Ac. Mem.
[RSLC, v.13, p.lxvii]
RSLC

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