The text describes the collections of the branch of the Society of Friends of Science, founded in Vilnius in 1906. Its aim was to collect Polish historical memorabilia. The collections are divided into the departments of pre-historic archaeology, numismatics and medals, ethnography, natural history, art, history and customs, Mickiewicz, and a collection of memorabilia of E. Orzeszkowa (Source: "Ziemia. Tygodnik Krajoznawczy Ilustrowany', Warsaw 1912, no. 20, pp. 4-6, no. 41, pp. 6-8, after: the Wielkopolska Biblioteka Cyfrowa).