The females who have recently been permitted to become members would be known as Boneswomen, Ladies of Eulogia, and Boodle Girls.In public, its corporate name is the Russell Trust Association. Initiates are most commonly known as Bonesmen, Knights of Eulogia, and Boodle Boys. Skull and Bones is known by many names, including The Order of Death, The Order, The Eulogian Club, and Lodge 322. The first Skull and Bones class, or 'cohort', was in 1833. The society is known informally as 'Bones', and members are known as 'Bonesmen'. The Russell Trust was founded by Russell and Daniel Coit Gilman, member of Skull and Bones and later president of the University of California, first president of Johns Hopkins University, and the founding president of the Carnegie Institution. The society's alumni organization, which owns the society's real property and oversees the organization, is the Russell Trust Association, named for William Huntington Russell, who co-founded Skull and Bones with classmate Alphonso Taft. It was founded in 1832 by William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft, two students who were not admitted into Phi Beta Kappa.

It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior class 'landed societies' at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

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