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IN ICELAND — INSTITUTIONS
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I. INSTITUTIONS.
The Icelandic Literary Society (Hid islengka Bokmenni-
afelag). Founded March 30, 1816, at the instance of the Danish
philologist, Rasmus Christian Rask; it has for its object “by
the publication of books and by other undertakings to preserve
the Icelandic language and literature, and thereby the civili-
zation and honour of the nation.” It has issued a great number
of valuable works and serials — literary, historical, statistical
and scientific — the whole forming a most important section
of modern Icelandic letters. Under the presidency of that able
scholar and statesman, Jon SigurSsson, it attained great pros-
perity. A careful history of its origin and progress, with a
complete list of its publications, was published on its fiftieth
anniversary, “HiS islenzka Bokmenntafolag 1816—1866.” The
society consists of two divisions, one having its seat in Reyk-
javik, the other in Copenhagen. It has about 500 members,
a permanent fund of 21,035 crowns, and a government appro-
priation of 3,000 crowns annually, its total income for 1902
having been approximatively 7,980 crowns. The annual sub-
scription is 6 crowns (two dollars, or eight shillings), for which
all the current publications are received.— I. Reykjavik Divi-
sion: President, the Rev. Eirikur Briem; Secretary, the Rev.
Thorhallur Bjarnarson. 2. Copenhagen Division: President,
Dlafur Halldorsson; Secretary, Professor FinnurJonsson.
Addresses: 1. Reykjavik, Iceland; 2. Amalienborg, Copenhagen,
Denmark.
The Icelandic Patriotic Society (HiS islenzka PjoSvin-
afelag■), founded June 8, 1870 with a political object, but has
developed into a society for the publication of works of popular