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Societies Covered
Académie d'Angers (1987)
Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts d'Angers (1685- )
Acccademia Lucchese (1985)
Accademia Lucchese di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (1584- )
Allen (1986)
Botanical Society of the British Isles (1836- )
Berkel, Lieburg & Snelders (1991)
Genootschap ter Bevordering van Natuur-, Genees- en Heelkunde te Amsterdam (1790- )
Brown (1934)
Académie de Montmor (1654-1664)
as well as several other of the minor French scientific organizations of the 17th century
Campbell / Smellie (1983)
Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) (1783- )
as well as its immediate precursor, the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh (1731-1783)
Crosland (1967)
Société d'Arcueil (1807-1813)
Crosnier (1910)
Société des Arts de Genève (1776- )
de Seta (1965)
Accademia Cosentina (1511- )
Deike (1994)
Königliche Landwirthschaftsgesellschaft zu Celle (1764-1899)
Desplat (1971)
Académie Royale des Sciences et Beaux-Arts de Pau (1718- )
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
many societies are mentioned
Doneaud du Plan (1878-1882)
Académie Marine de Brest (1752-1793, 1921- )
Dülmen (1992) many 18th c. German societies (Engl. transl. of 1st edition of Dülmen (1996))
Dülmen (1996) many 18th c. German societies
Een Eeuw Natuurwetenschap in Indonesië (1950)
Koninklijke Natuurkundige Vereeniging in Nederlandsch-Indië (1850-1957)
Engelhardt & Neuschäffer (1983)
Livländische Gemeinnützige und Ökonomische Sozietät (1792-1939)
Enros (1979)
Analytical Society (1812-1813)
Eriksson
Göteborgs Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället, originally Götheborgska Wetenskaps och Witterhets Samhället (1788- )
Fausti (1977)
Accademia Spoletina, originally Accademia degli Ottusi (1477- )
Field (1988)
Accademia Platonica (1459, 1462 or 1463 to 1522)
Genner (1972)
Kirurgiske Privatselskab (1771-1783),
Københavnske Medicinske Selskab (1772-1872),
Societas Exercitatoria Medica (1774-1785),
Societas Disputatoria Medica Hauniensis (1785-1787), and
Societas Philiatrica (1787-1791).
Georgofili (1931)
Accademia dei Georgofili (1753- ),
Accademia di Agricoltura di Torino (1785- ),
Società Agraria di Bologna (1807- ),
Accademia Agraria di Pesaro (founded 1828, first public meeting 1829), and
Società Agraria di Lombardia (1861- ).
Gerber (1988)
Patriotische Gesellschaft in Schlesien (1771-1791),
Schlesische Gesellschaft für Vaterländische Cultur (1803-1945).
Graf (1993)
Churpfalzbaierische Sittlich-Landwirthschaftliche Akademie zu Burghausen 1765-1802).
Gross (2001)
Societas Jablonoviana = Fürstlich Jablonowskische Gesellschaft (1774- ),
Oberlausitzer Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Görlitz (1779-?),
Philologische Gesellschaft in Leipzig (1784-?), and
Naturforschende Gesellschaft (1787-?).
Guggisberg & Wahlen (1958)
Ökonomische Gesellschaft in Bern (1759- )
Hecht (1907)
Fürstlich Anhaltische Deutsche Gesellschaft (1761-1785)
Hume (1853)
many U.K. societies are covered
Institut de France (1995)
Institut de France (1795- )
Académie Française (1635- )
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1663- )
Académie des Sciences (1666- )
Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (1795- )
Académie des Beaux-Arts (1803- ), and also the 3 that it replaced:
Jacob & Mijnhardt (1992)
many Dutch societies are mentioned, including the following major literary societies:
Lieburg (1985)
Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte te Rotterdam (1769- )
Lux (1989)
Académie de Physique de Caen (1662-1676)
Maggiolo (1983)
Accademia dei Ricovrati (1599-1779),
Accademia di Arte Agraria (1769-1779), and
Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti di Padova (1779- )
Maylender (1926-1930)
many Italian academies are covered
Montaiglon (1853)
Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (1648-1793)
Musée Ducal (1955)
Société Typographique de Bouillon (1768-1788)
Neave (1933)
Entomological Society of London (1806-1824) Entomological Club (1826-1933)
Royal Entomological Society [founded in 1833 as the Entomological Society of London] (1833- )
Nicolini (1974)
Accademia Pontaniana (1443- ),
Accademia Palatina (1698-1705),
Accademia delle Scienze di Monsignor Celestino Galiano (1732-1737, 1741-1744),
Reale Accademia Medico-Chirurgica di Napoli (1740-1934),
Reale Accademia Ercolanese (1755-1808),
Reale Accademia di Scienze e Belle Lettere (founded by Ferdinando IV, and ran from 1780-1788),
Istituto Nazionale (1799)
Società Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti in Napoli (1808- )
Oreshkin (1963)
Imperatorskoe Vol'noe Ekonomicheskoe Obshchestvo (1765-1917)
Ornstein (1928)
many 17th Century scientific societies are covered
Rauter (1970)
nearly 20 different 18th century German societies bearing the name "Deutsche Gesellschaft"
Roche (1978)
French scholarly academies based outside of Paris are covered for the period before the French Revolution
Rumeu de Armas (2001)
Real Academia de la Historia (1738- )
Schofield (1963)
Lunar Society of Birmingham (1775-1809?)
Snelders (1980)
Gezelschap der Hollandsche Scheikundigen (1790-1802)
Sondervorst (1981) Genootschap ter Bevoordering van Genees- en Heel-kunde opgeregt tot Antwerpen onder de zinspreuk Occîdit, qui non servat (1797-1800)
Société d'Émulation établie à Anvers (1802)
Société de Médecine, Chirurgie et Pharmacie établie à Bruxelles, sous la devise Aegrotantibus (1797-1812)
Teylers Stichting (1978)
Teylers Godgeleerd Genootschap (1778- )
Teylers Tweede Genootschap (1778- )
The Timetables of Science (1988)
a number of scholarly societies are mentioned in this chronology.
Варсанофьева (1955)
Московское Общество Испытателей Природы (1805- )
Wall / Cameron / Underwood (1963)
Society of Apothecaries of London (1617- )
Watson (1989)
Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers (1771- )
White (1989)
Militärische Gesellschaft in Berlin (1801-1805)

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