Founding of the Society
Year	Authority / Notes
1855	This society was founded in 1855 according to its website (). The website does not indicate the founding name nor any name changes. Catalogue records for its flagship journal, the Mitteilungen establish this name from 1895 onward. We have, however, found a monograph listed in the swisscovery catalogue giving this name from 1877: Mitteilungen über die Insecten in der Schneeregion der Alpen : Vortrag in der naturforschenden Gesellschaft Luzern 20. Jänner 1877. This establishes that the name Naturforschende Gesellschaft Luzern was in use as early as 1877. It may, of course, been the founding name - but we have not yet found any evidence of this yet (2025, December 19).
Seat of the Society
City	Authority / Notes
Luzern Switzerland	This location is supported by its name.
Name of the Society
Dates	Name	Authority
1877 -	Naturforschende Gesellschaft Luzern	Catalogue records establish the use of this name from at least 1877 onward.
Naturforschende Gesellschaft Luzern = Scientific Society in Lucerne

Journals of the Society
Years	Full Journal Title	Abbrev.
1.1895/96(1897) -   1895-A	Mitteilungen / Naturforschende Gesellschaft Luzern NGL Title up to Band 39 (2012): Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Luzern. Had as supplement: 1905-A. [Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)]	Mitt. d. naturf. Ges. Luzern [Anthropologie, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1926), p.150 cites IX, 1924.] Mitt. naturf. Ges. Luzern [Isis, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Aug., 1948), p.171 cites 9 (1919).] Mitt. Naturforsch. Ges. Luzern [Ann. NaturHist. Mus. Wien, Serie A, 94. Bd. (1990), p.5 cites 21, 1967.] Mitt. Naturforsch. Gesell. Luzern [Biogeochemistry, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Oct., 1999), p.108 cites 33 (1993).] Mitteil. d. Naturf. Ges. Luzern [Öster. Botan. Z., Vol. 87, No. 1 (1938), p.68 cites Bd. IX, 1924.] Mitteil. d. naturforsch. Ges. Luzern [Ann. NaturHist. Mus. Wien, 42. Bd. (1928), p.58 cites VI. Heft (1911).] Mitteil. der Naturforsch. Ges. Luzern [Vegetatio, Vol. 9, No. 4/5 (1960), p.341 cites Heft 16, 1950.] Mitteil. der Naturforsch. Gesell. Luzern [Bryologist, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Summer, 1967), p.271 cites 20, 1966.] Mitteil. Naturf. Ges. Luzern [Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, Vol. 52, No. 6 (Jun., 1925), p.342 cites 8, 1921.] Mitteil. Naturforsch. Ges. Luzern [Annales Botanici Fennici, Vol. 28, No. 2 (1991), p.130 cites 31, 1990.] Mitteilungen der Naturf. Gesellschaft Luzern [Vegetatio, Vol. 9, No. 1/2 (1959), p.114 cites 16, 1950.]
1.1905 - 5.1909[?]   1905-A	Jahresbericht / Alpengarten der Schweizerflora auf Rigi-Scheidegg Supplement to 1895-A [Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)]