American      Archives.        See      Force,   23 ) .    Other  provinces  took  measures  to  the
Peter.  same  effect.
American  Association,  The.     On  Oct.       American  Bible  Society.     See  Bible
20,    1774,  the  first  Continental   Congress    Society.
adopted  a  "  non-importation,  non-consump-       American  Colonization  Society.     See
tion,  and  non-exportation  agreement,"  ap-    Colonization  Society,  American.
plied  to  Great  Britain,  Ireland,  the  West       American  Learned  Societies,  most  of
Indies,  and  Madeira,  by  which  the  inhabi-    which    are    located    or    have    branches    in
tants  of  all   the   colonies  were  bound   to    New  York  City:

act  in  good  faith  as  those  of  certain  cities    actuarial  Society  of  America.— Organized
and   towns   had   already   done,   under   the        In  1889  for  the  purpose  of  promoting  actu-
ponalty  of  the  displeasure  of  faithful  ones.        arial  science.    Membership,  130.
£,,  ,r  i.j-j'.r       a  Alaska    Geographical    Society. — Organized

The  agreement  was  embodied  in  fourteen        189g     Membership,  1,200.
articles,  and  was  to  go  into  effect  on  the    American    Academy   op   Medicine. — Present
1st  of  December  next  ensuing.     In  the  sec-        membership,   834.
ond  article,  the  Congress  struck  a  blow  at    American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social
.  .  '    ,,  B         .    ..    ,  ...  Science. — Founded  1889.     Members,  2,100.
slavery,    in    the   name    of    their    constitu-    American    Antiquarian    Society.— Domestic
ents,  declaring  that,  after  the  1st  day  of        membership  restricted  to  140.
December  next  ensuing,  they  would  neither    American    Asiatic    Association.  —  To   pro-
,  ,  i  4.^a        mote   the   trade   and    commercial    interests

import  nor   purchase  any   slave  imported        of  the  cit,zens  of  the  United  states  in  Agia

after    that    date,    and    they    would    in    no  and  oceanica.     Membership,  260.
