The SNSN has also edited twelve "Mémoires", or volumes of essays, containing works that are too long to be included in the Bulletin or gathering together a series of articles on a given theme, for example relating to a conference held in Neuchâtel.

The Société neuchâteloise des sciences naturelles (Neuchâtel Society of Natural Sciences, or SNSN) aims to inform as broad a public as possible about the latest scientific findings in different research disciplines. It does this by organising an annual cycle of conferences complemented by visits to laboratories, museums, botanical gardens, companies, archaeological digs and areas of natural beauty.

The SNSN works together with the following institutions: the University of Neuchâtel, to which the majority of its committee members belong; the Neuchâtel Museum of Natural History, which undertakes some of the administration work; and the Public and University Library and the Swiss Academy of Sciences, which are responsible for distributing and exchanging copies of the Bulletins.

The Société neuchâteloise des sciences naturelles was founded in 1832 in Neuchâtel through the efforts of a group of scientists that included Louis Agassiz, Henri de Joannis and Henri Ladame, three names that would reappear in 1840 as professors at the first Académie, later to become the university. The SNSN started life as a narrow scientific circle in which experts debated the issues of the day in the fields of medicine, zoology, botany, geology, mathematics, engineering and horology.

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Société Neuchâteloise des Sciences Naturelles
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