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Scholarly journals, annual reports, and other learned society scholarly publications

Most of this collection consists largely of scholarly journals. Only a few monographs are represented in this collection, which was primarily obtained through gifts and bequests and exchanges with other learned societies.
It can be said that this collection of journals is not only representative of what was published in this area, but it is almost complete for serials dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. All the serials from national learned societies from most major European countries are represented in the collection. Yet as far as monographs published by learned societies are concerned, the Academy Library only has an incomplete collection.
In the Netherlands part if the collection, the publications of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and its forerunner the Royal Institute and the Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen are of special interest. Holdings of this part of the collection provide a reasonably representative picture of the (serial) publications of learned societies in the Netherlands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The oldest learned society journals were published in Great Britain and France. Many of the older French publications are only reprints. This part of the collection includes journals from nineteen different French regional societies from the middle of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The oldest publications date from the end of the eighteenth century.
A large number of professional societies are represented by their journals in this collection, thus providing an insight into the state and practice of scientific and scholarly knowledge in nineteenth-century France.
The collection contains works of important British learned societies such as the Royal Society, the Linnean Society, the Zoological Society, the Ray Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Royal Astronomical Society. The Academy Library has complete series of most of these societies' journals.

Serial publications from Russia are very well represented, especially those from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

South America, Africa, and large parts of Asia are poorly represented, however, although it should remembered that before the twentieth century, publishing was not as common in these parts of the world as in Europe.

Special works in this part of the collection:

This listing mentions the most important learned societies, together with the year they were established (if known). Specific journal titles are not mentioned. The original call numbers have been added where applicable.

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