XXII PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TREASURER. 
WaAsHINGTON Crry, December 31, 1883. 
To the Philosophical Society of Washington : 
I have the honor to present herewith my annual statement as 
Treasurer for the year ending December 31st, and to express my 
regret that owing to absence from the city I was not able to present 
this report at the proper time on the occasion of the recent annual 
meeting, December 22d. 
By the kindness of Messrs. Riggs & Co. the Society has been 
enabled to invest in another $1,000 United States 4 per cent. bond, 
but in this case a few weeks in advance of the regular winter accu- 
mulation of its revenue. The balance shown by Riggs’ books 
against the Society is, therefore, with their assent, and in fact at 
their suggestion, and will pr obably be met during J anuary 
The total invested fund of the Society is, therefore, 32, 500, of 
which $1,000 is at 42 per cent. and $1,500 at 4 per cent. 
The further assets of the Society consist of unpaid annual dues 
to the amount of $185 for 1883 and $90 for 1882. ‘The total active 
membership remains at about one hundred and fifty, and the prob- 
able income for the next year may be estimated at $900, nearly all 
of which will be needed to pay current expenses and the bills for 
printing Volume VI. 
Early in the year one hundred and fifty-five copies of Volume IV 
and two hundred and eighty-five of Volume V were distributed to 
the active members and to about fifty domestic and eighty-five for- 
eign recipients. 
The list of recipients is a slightly amended copy of that printed 
in Volume IV of the Bulletin of the Society. Occasional copies of 
the earlier volumes have been distributed to those whose sets had 
accidentally become imperfect, or were otherwise entitled to them. 
As custodian of the library and property, I have the honor to 
report that the Society occasionally receives scientific publications 
by way of exchange with similar organizations. The accession cata- 
logue of the library now includes a hundred and two numbers or 
titles, being an increase of thirty-one during the year. 
By order of the General Council, the "Treasurer was in 1881 
instructed to initiate the keeping of a record book containing a 
sketch of the life and services of the individual members of the 
Society ; this record volume is now prepared, and a notice will be 
sent to each member asking for the necessary data. 
Very respectfully, 
CLEVELAND ABBE, 
Treasurer. 
