: BULLETIN 
OF THE 
GENERAL MEETING. 
279TH MEETING. JANUARY 16, 1886. 
President BrLur1nas in the Chair. | 
Thirty-two members and guests present. 
Announcement was made of the election to membership of 
Messrs. BENJAMIN PicKMAN MANN and Cuartes Coorer Norv. 
The following report of the Auditing Committee was presented 
by its chairman, Mr. TonER: 
DECEMBER 24, 1885. 
The undersigned, a committee appointed at the annual meeting 
of the Philosophical Society of Washington, December 19, 1885, 
for the purpose of auditing the accounts of the Treasurer, beg 
leave to report as follows: 
We have examined the statement of receipts, including annual 
dues, sale of Bulletin, and interest on bonds, and find the same to 
be correct as stated. 
We have examined the statement of disbursements, and com-' 
pared the same with the vouchers, and find them to agree. 
We have examined the returned checks and the bank account 
with Riggs & Co., and find the balance, $484.02, to agree with the 
statements in the Treasurer’s report. 
We have examined the U.S. bonds belonging to the Society, and 
find them to be in amount and character as represented in the 
Treasurer’s report, aggregating $2,500. 
J. M. Toner, 
O. T. Mason, 
T. C. MENDENHALL, 
Committee. 
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