Founding of the Society
Year	Authority / Notes
1792	Its website () gives the founding year as 1792.
Seat of the Society
City	Authority / Notes
Massachusetts USA	This location is supported by the name of the society.
Name of the Society
Dates	Name	Authority
1792 -	Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture	Its website () gives the founding year as 1792. Every journal since 1799 has used this name. It seems reasonable to assume that this name has been used from the start and has never been altered.
Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture

Journals of the Society
Years	Full Journal Title	Abbrev.
1799 1801, 1803, 1804, 1806, 1807, 1808   A	Papers on agriculture, consisting of communications made to the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture : with extracts from various publications ; recommended to the attention of farmers, by the Trustees of the Society Title for 1806 and 1807: Papers, consisting of communications made to the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture A record in the Lib. Congress cat. gives the holdings as 1801 - 1808, and indicates that this title is continued by B. [Harvard Univ. Lib. cat.]
1809   B	Georgick papers for ... consisting of letters and extracts, communicated to the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. Continues A. Continued by C. [Lib. Congress cat.]	Georgick papers for 1809, Mass. Soc. Promot. Agric. [Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., Vol. 15, No. 96 (Dec., 1876), p.442 cites 1809.]
1810 - 1811   C	Papers for ... communicated to the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture Continues B. Continued by D. [Lib. Congress cat.]
Vol. 3, no. 1 (Nov. 1813)-v. 10, no. 4 (Apr. 1832).   D	Massachusetts agricultural journal. Continues C. [Lib. Congress cat.]	Massachusetts Agric. J. [Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs, No. 6, 1982, p.794 cites 4(3), 1817.] Massachusetts Agric. Journ. [Coleopterists Bulletin, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Mar., 1960), p.11 cites 4(3), 1817.]
1857; New series, v. 1- (1858 - )   E	Transactions of the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture Continued by F. [Harvard Univ. Lib. cat.]