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December 29,, 1888, Fifteenth Meeting. 



The Society met in the Society Hall of the Cosmos Club, 

 President Hubbard in the chair. Owing to the absence from 

 the city of the Secretaries, Mr, O. H. Tittmann was requested to 

 act as Secretary of the meeting. The minutes of the first and 

 fourteenth meetings were read and approved. The report of the 

 Secretaries was read, in their absence, by the temporary Secre- 

 retary, and was approved. The Treasurer's report, showing a 

 balance on hand of $626.70, was read and approved, as was also 

 that of the auditing committee. 



The President announced that vacancies caused by the resigna- 

 tion of two of the managers, Messrs. W. D. Johnson and Henry 

 Mitchell, had been filled by the Board on the 1 5th of November, 

 by the election of Messrs. O. H. Tittmann and C. A. Kenaston ; 

 and that a vacancy caused by the resignation of Vice-Pi-esident 

 John R. Bartlett, had been filled by the election of Lieut. George 

 L. Dyer, on November 30th. 



The Society then proceeded to the election of ofiicers, with fol- 

 lowing result : 



President— GcKKDis^Vi G. Hubbard. 



Vice-Presidents— Hexceert G. Ogden, [land] ; George L. Dyer, [sea] ; 

 A. W. Greely, [air]; C. Hart Merriam, [life]; A. H. Thompson, [art]; 



Treasurer— Charles J. Bell. 



Recording Secretary— Hk^uy Gannett. 



Corresponding Secretary— G'E.orge Kennan. 



Maria^ers— Cleveland Abbe, Marcus Baker, Rogers Birnie, Jr., 

 G. Browne Goode, W. B. Powell, J. C Welling, C. A. Kenaston, 

 O. H. Tittmann. 



January/ 11, 1889, Sixteenth Meeting. 



The paper of the evening was entitled, " The Great Plains of 

 Canada," and was presented by Professor C. A. Kenaston, of 

 Howard University. 



January 25, 1889, Seventeenth Meeting. 



The paper of the evening was entitled, "Irrigation in Cali- 

 fornia," by Mr. William Hammond Hall, State Engineer of 

 California. To be published in the " National Geographic Mag- 

 azine," Vol. I, No. 4. 



