PROCEEDINGS. 



PRELIMINARY MEETING, November 19. 1880. 



In response to a letter of invitation signed by C. V. Riley and 

 G. Brown Goode, ten gentlemen met at the house of the former, 

 No. 1700 Thirteenth Street N. W., to take into consideration a 

 project for the organization of a natural history society in the city 

 of Washington. Capt. C. E. Button, U. S. A. was chosen chair 

 man. After an informal interchange of views and a discussion of 

 various propositions advanced by those present, it was decided to 

 send out a call for a general meeting to be held on the following 

 Friday evening, to which all known to be interested in the objects 

 of the proposed society should be invited. The following persons 

 were in attendance at this preliminary meeting : Captain Clarence 

 E. Button, Prof. Theodore Gill, Messrs. G. Brown Goode, Ernest 

 Ingersoll, W. H. Patton, Richard Rathbun, C. V. Riley, Fred 

 erick W. True, Lester F. Ward, and Br. George Vasey. 



MEETING FOR ORGANIZATION, November 26, 1880. 



In response to a call signed by C. E. Button, J. W. Chickering, 

 Jr., Theodore Gill, G. Brown Goode, Ernest Ingersoll, W. H. Pat- 

 ton, Richard Rathbun, Robert Ridgway, C. V. Riley, F. W. True, 

 Lester F. Ward, and George Vasey, about thirty gentlemen assembled 

 in the Regents' Room, at the Smithsonian Institution. Prof. Riley 

 was elected chairman, and Mr. Goode, Secretary. After much dis 

 cussion it was decided to organize a society to be called THE 

 BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. A committee consisting of 

 Messrs. Gill, Goode, Rathbun, Riley, and Ward was appointed to 

 draw up a form of constitution for the proposed society, and to 

 submit the same at a meeting to be held on the evening of Friday, 

 Becember 3. 



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