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Section H. General Periodicals and Society Publications.
Figures for GENERAL PERIODICALS are liable to be misleading,
due to differences in interpretation and methods of handling.
This being understood, we give the following totals for the dozen
Virginia libraries which seem, from statistics reported by the
respective librarians, to have the largest number:- University of
Virginia, 14,152; Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 6,490; Randolph-Macon
College, 5,180; State Library, 5,000; University of Richmond,
5,000; Richmond Public Library, 3,800; Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, 3,112; Washington and Lee, 3,000; William and Mary,
2,710; Sweet Briar, 2,703; Virginia Military Institute, 2,602;
Petersburg Public Library, 2,249. To these figures are herewith
appended scattered notes on two or three of the collections in
the State.
The eighteenth century material at the University of Virginia
Library includes American Museum; or, Repository of Ancient
and Modern Fugitive Pieces, 1787-89; Analytical Review, 1788-93;
Anti-Jacobin, 1799; Beiträgen zur Völker und Länderkunde, 1781-90
(volumes eight and nine for 1787-88 containing the contemporary
translation into German of Thomas Jefferson's `Notes on the State
of Virginia'); British Critic, 1793-1804; Critical Review, 175680,
1791-1804; Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1813; Literary Journal,
1744-48; Magazine für Erfahrungesselenkunde, 1783-93.
Among the southern magazines at the State Library are the
following:- De Bow's Review, 1848-70 (incomplete); New Eclectic,
1863-70; Old Dominion, 1870-72; Sewanee Review, 1892-97, 1908date;
South Atlantic Quarterly, 1905-date; Southern Literary
Messenger, 1834-64; Southern Magazine, 1871-75; Southern Quarterly
Review, 1842-55; Southern Review (Baltimore), 1867-75; Southern
Review (Charleston), 1828-32; Virginia Evangelical and Literary
Magazine, 1818-28; Virginia Quarterly Review, 1925-date.
The southern group at the library of the College of William
and Mary includes: De Bow's Review, 1848-61; Southern Literary
Messenger, 1834-1864; Southern Quarterly Review, 1842-57; Southern
Review (Baltimore), 1867-72; Southern Review (Charleston), 1828-32.
Among the runs of early Americana at the Virginia Historical
Society may be named these:- American Quarterly Review (Philadelphia),
1827-37; American Review (Philadelphia), 1811-12; American
Review - Whig Journal (New York), 1845-46; Analectic Magazine
(Philadelphia), 1808-18; De Bow's Review (New Orleans and Washington),
1860-62; Democratic Review (Washington), 1838-52; Portfolio
(Philadelphia), 1806-15; Southern Literary Messenger (Richmond),
1841-64; Southern Quarterly Review (Charleston), 1844-54; Weekly
Of general SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS the University of Virginia
Library has the beginnings of a fair collection; and a few isolated
sets are scattered among four or five other libraries in the
State.
The University of Virginia has some of the publications, but
not the monumental sets, of the following general academies:
Académie des Sciences (Paris), Académie des Sciences, Belles-lettres,
et Arts (Lyon), Académie des Sciences Mathematiques et
Naturelles (Belgrade), Academia Nacional de Artes y Letras (Havana),
Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Cordoba), Academy of Sciences of
the U.S.S.R., Far Eastern Branch (Vladivostok), Academia dei
Lincei (Rome), Academia d'Italia, Classe di Scienze, Fisichi,
Mathematiche, et Naturali (Rome), Akademie Wissenschaften (Vienna),
Akademie van Wetenschappen (Amsterdam), National Academy of
Sciences (Washington), Saechischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Philologisch-Historischen Kalsse (Leipzig), Imperial Academy
(Tokyo). Publications of other learned societies include Academy
of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Academy of Science of St.
Louis, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston), American
Academy of Political and Social Science (Philadelphia), American
Association for the Advancement of Science (Washington), British
Association for the Advancement of Science (London), Cambridge
Philosophical Society, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Ceska
Spolecnost Nauk (Prague), Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
(New Haven), Danske Videnskabernes Selskab (Copenhagen), Finska
Vetenskaps-societatem (Helsingfors), Instituto di Studi Superiori,
Sezione di Scienze Fisischi e Naturali (Florence), Humanistiska
Vetenskapssamfundit i Lund, Kentucky Academy of Science (Lexington),
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, Royal Canadian
Institute (Toronto), Royal Society of Canada (Ottawa), Royal
Society of Edinburgh, and Royal Society of London.
Other sets of publications of academies and similar learned
societies are located as follows: a run of the French Academie
des Sciences and of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society of London at the Mariners' Museum; the Mémoires of the
Académie Royal des Sciences at the Coast Artillery School; the
Journal (1834-74) of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain
and Ireland at the Union Theological Seminary; twenty-nine volumes
(in thirty) of the Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en
Wetenschappen at Washington and Lee; and the Proceedings for 18511912
of the Royal Institution of Great Britain at the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute.
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