PERU. LIMA. Academia Peruana Correspondiente de la Española. Address.-Lima. Permanent secretary: Luis B. Cisneros. Publications. Anales de la Academia correspondiente de la Real Española en el Ateneo de Lima. Address.-Altos de la Biblioteca Nacional, Lima (Apartado 32). Secretary: Francisco García Calderón y Rey. History.-Established in 1886 as successor to the Club Literario," with a widened sphere of activity. Object.-Encouragement of all forms of literary and scientific activity. Meetings. Regular general assembly biennially on the 1st of July; others when deemed necessary by the Board of Directors. Membership.-25 active (entrance fee, 5 soles; monthly dues, I sol); 20 corresponding; 5 honorary. Publications. El Ateneo de Lima. Publicación mensual. t. 1-6, año I-III, 1886- El Ateneo; órgano del Ateneo de Lima. t. I-VI (i. e., núm. 1-38). Price: I sol per number; 4 soles per annum. Escuela de Ingenieros. Address.-Lima. History.-Established in 1876 as the Escuela Especial de Construcciones Civiles y Minas; present name since 1898 (in common use earlier, see publications). The school consists of (1) Sección preparatoria; (2) Secciones especiales, viz: (a) Construcciones civiles, (b) Minas, (c) Industrias (est. 1901), (3) Sección complementaria de Electricidad (est. 1903). It has laboratories for assaying, metallurgy, micropetrology and applied electricity, which, with its museums and collections, afford opportunity for investigation to specialists in technical subjects. Ref.: Boletín de minas, etc., año XX, no. 1-2. "Publ.: Anales de la Sección de literatura, 1873/74-1875/76; 1885. Lima, 1874-76; 1885. 4°.-Sesión del jueves 30 de marzo de 1876. Poema lírico del distinguido poeta Numa Pompilio Llona. Lima, 1876. 8°. Publications. Anales de construcciones civiles y de minas del Perú. t. I-VI. Lima, 1880-87. 8°. ANALES DE CONSTRUCCIONES CIVILES, MINAS E INDUSTRIAS del Perú. 2o ser. t. I- . Lima, 1901- . 8°. Each memoir has special t.-p. and separate paging. BOLETÍN DE MINAS, INDUSTRIA Y CONSTRUCCIONES. 1885-1905. fol. t. I-XX. Lima, Ser. II, t. I in progress; no. 1-4, Nov. 1905-Jan. 1907. -Indice general del . . . 1' serie, años 1885 á 1905, t. I-XX. Lima, Recopilación de los artículos publicados en . . . año XI, nos. I, II, III y IV por Eduard J. Habich. Lima, 1895. 8°. Also annual reports: Datos relativos al segunda semestre de . . . y Distribution.-Exchange with scientific and industrial institutions. Address: Instituto Histórico del Perú. Address.-Lima. Secretary: José Toribio Polo. History. Created by decree of Feb. 18, 1905; installed in July following. The Institute has charge of the Museo de Historia Nacional, created by decree of May 6, 1905, and opened to the public July 1906. Ref.: Inauguración solemne . . . día 29 de julio de 1905. Lima, 1905. 8°. Object.-To promote the study of national history. Meetings. Annual meeting during the first two weeks of July; other meetings as called. Membership.—27 active (limited to 30); 15 ex-officio (certain designated officials, and professors; members of the Real Academia de la Historia de Madrid, and of other analogous academies); honorary and corresponding. Publications. REVISTA HISTÓRICA. Órgano del Instituto histórico del Perú. t. I. Lima, Perú, 1906. 8°. q. Distribution.-Exchange. Address: C. A. Romero, Director de la Revista histórica, Apartado de correos núm. 1026, Lima. Instituto Técnico é Industrial del Perú. Address.-Calle de la Caridad 606, Lima. (Apartado 616.) History. Created by decree of May 22, 1896; inaugurated in 1898. It is composed of the technical and industrial societies of Peru, which are officially recognized: Sociedad Nacional de Industrias, Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura, Sociedad Nacional de Minería, Sociedad Nacional de Ingenieros and Cuerpo Técnico de Tasaciones." It serves the government as a consulting body, and the public as an information bureau in technical and industrial matters. Object.-Promotion of the economic and industrial interests of Peru. Meetings.-Monthly meetings of the Board of Directors (composed of the president of each of the component societies, the Director of the Escuela de Ingenieros, and two delegates from each society, chosen annually). Annual meeting in Dec.; general assemblies when convoked by the Board of Directors. Membership.-Members of the component societies (see under each society); the Director of the Escuela de Ingenieros; 3 honorary (Ministro de Fomento, honorary president; Director of the same department, honorary secretary; the Commercial Museum of Philadelphia). Publications. ANALES... Lima, 1899-1904. 8°. Contain the proceedings of the Institute together with the reports of the various societies which constitute it. Each of the latter publications forms a separate numbered section of the Anales. Distribution.-Exchange or gratis. Sociedad "Amantes de la Ciencia." Address.-Lima. History.-Founded 1881. Object.-Study of the sciences in their application to industry. Membership.-56 active and 5 corresponding. Publications. LA GACETA CIENTÍFICA. . . t. I-XIV, año I-XIV, 1884/85-1900/03. t. 11-13, 1895-1900 have combined t. p. and index (Lima, 1903). Distribution.-Exchange. Sr. A. Granda, Lima. Sociedad de Ingenieros. Subscriptions received at the Librería Científica del Address.-Portal de Botoneros no. 162, altos, Lima. (Apartado 981.) History.-Founded Oct. 1898. Object.-Promotion of personal intercourse and diffusion of professional knowledge among the members. Meetings.-General assemblies at least twice yearly; weekly meetings of the Board of Directors. Membership.-324, divided into 2 classes: active (engineers, architects, and surveyors) and associate (business men, manufacturers, etc.). Entrance fee, 30 soles; dues monthly, 3 soles, or annual, 30 soles; life composition, 200 soles. "Created by decree of Dec. 13, 1889, for the supervision of all matters relating to appraisal and valuation. Annual meeting in Dec.; general assemblies each month and weekly meetings of the Directors. 40 active members, also delegates from other towns in Peru, honorary and cooperating members and assistants. Publ.: Anales . . . Publications. INFORMACIONES Y MEMORIAS. Boletín de la Sociedad de ingenieros. v. 2 has cover-title: Sociedad de ingenieros del Perú. Informaciones y In v. 5 each no. consists of sections separately paged: Ingeniería civil; Ingeniería de minas; Industrias, etc., the paging for each section being continuous throughout the volume. Prices: 4 soles per annum or I sol quarterly. MEMORIAS publicadas por la Sociedad de ingenieros del Perú. n. 1-6. no. 1-3 issued with Informaciones . . . v. II, no. 18-20. Sociedad Geográfica de Lima. Address.-Altos de la Biblioteca Nacional, Lima. (Apartado 889.) History. Founded Feb. 22, 1888, by decree of the Government of Peru and placed under the Ministry of Foreign Relations through which it addresses all the authorities of the Republic and receives the monthly subvention allotted to it by Congress in the general appropriations. The society has a scientific library of about 8,000 volumes, a cartography department containing over 1,800 maps, charts and sketches and a small museum of mineralogy, zoology, craniology and Peruvian antiquities. It is endeavoring to establish geographical organizations under its auspices in all the capitals of prefectures and has thus far founded: Centro Geográfico de Iquitos (1902), Centro Geográfico de Arequipa. (1903) and Centro Geográfico de Ancash (1905). Object. The pursuit of geographical studies in general, and in particular such as relate to the territory of the Republic of Peru; to furnish reports that may be useful to the public authorities and to private parties; and to extend the knowledge of the geography of Peru in other countries. Meetings.-2 general meetings and 3 or 4 public lectures yearly in the rooms of the society at the above address. The Board of Directors meets twice a month. Additional meetings on call of the President. Membership-136 active (entrance fee, 10 soles; monthly dues, I sol); 13 exofficio; 137 corresponding; 27 honorary; 8 honorary corresponding. Publications. BOLETÍN . . . t. I-XIII, XV-XVIII, año I-XV, 1891-1905. Lima, 1892-1905. 8°. t. 14 in press; t. 19, 21 in progress (Dec. 1907). m., Apr. Dec. 1891; q. 1892 to date. "Memoria anual y anexos" forms an extra vol. in 1903-05. Price: 4 soles per annum; single numbers, I sol. Catálogo de la biblioteca . . . Lima, 1898. 4°. Also reprints of important contributions published in the Boletín. On the death of Antonio Raimondi in 1890, the preparation of the remainder of his unfinished work El Perú (t. I-III. Lima, 187480. 4°.) was placed in the care of a commission of the society by the government, and t. IV was published by the society in 1902. Distribution.-Exchange. On sale by Librería de Colville, no. 36 Plateros de San Pedro, Lima. Prizes. A gold medal to be awarded biennially (from Feb. 1906) to the explorer who accomplishes most in the allotted period towards perfecting the geography of Peru, or to the author of the best work on the subject. Sociedad Nacional de Industrias. Address.-Calle de Zárate 147, Lima. (Apartado 964.) History. Created by decree of May 22, 1896; a constituent society of the Instituto técnico é industrial del Perú. It has charge of a permanent exhibition of articles applicable to industry, inaugurated Apr. 1898. Ref.: Anales del Instituto técnico é industrial del Perú. núm. I. Sociedad nacional de industrias. Año 1899. Object.-Promotion and protection of all the industrial interests of the country. Meetings.-General assemblies on the first Friday in Mar., July and Nov. Membership.-70 (monthly dues, I sol). Publications. LA INDUSTRIA. Órgano de los intereses de la industria fabril y manufacturera del Perú y de la Sociedad nacional de industrias. Año I-VII (i. e. núm. 1-43). Lima, 1897-1907. fol. Distribution.-Exchange, especially with publications of an industrial character. Sociedad Nacional de Ingenieros. Address.-Lima. History. Founded in 1899, in accordance with the requirements of the decree constituting the Instituto técnico é industrial. Object.-To serve the government as a consulting body and the public as a center of information in the branches of engineering and architecture. Meetings.-Annual meeting in Dec.; other general assemblies as called. Monthly meetings of the Board of Directors. Membership. About 48, including active, corresponding and honorary. Reports published in Anales del Instituto técnico é industrial del Perú. |