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16 special. The latter number includes one social at Wormley's 

 hotel on February 24, a field meeting at Annapolis, Maryland, 

 on May 27, and also the lawn party at Twin Oaks, where by 

 invitation of the President fully 3U0 members and guests were 

 handsomely entertained. 



One of the regular meetings was for the election of officers and 

 transaction of business. The remaining 26 meetings, .regular and 

 special, were devoted mainly to lectures or reading of papers; 

 and the average attendance was 242. On 15 evenings the lectures 

 or papers were illustrated by use of the stereopticon, and on these 

 evenings the attendance averaged 316. When lantern slides 

 were not used the average attendance was 131, or less than half. 



There has been no regularity in regard to place of meeting. 

 The hall of the Cosmos club has been used 9 times, there being 

 an average of 85 members and guests present ; the hall of Colum- 

 bian Universitj^ 4 times, the audience averaging 225 persons ; the 

 National Museum lecture-room 10 times, averaging 290 persons, 

 and other halls or churches 4 times, averaging 500 persons. 



The subjects under discussion by the various speakers have 

 been widely diverse, embracing nearly every quarter of the globe. 

 Greatest attention has been paid to northern regions, 6 evenings 

 being devoted to Alaska, Greenland, Iceland, Labrador, etc. 



Managers. — The Board of Managers have held 18 meetings for 

 the transaction of business of the Society. Of these 15 were reg- 

 ular and 3 special. The highest attendance of the 17 members 

 was 15, and the average was about 9. 



No explorations have been attempted, but the efforts of the 

 managers have been directed toward strengthening the Society 

 in every way. 



A change in the By-laws was adopted March 4, 1892, by which 

 the election of new members was greatlj^ facilitated, being left 

 more directly in the hands of the Board of Managers. A new 

 office, that of Vice-President of commercial geography, was cre- 

 ated at the beginning of the year, but as yet remains unfilled. 



Publications. — During the year six brochures have been pub- 

 lished, one of these forming the last number of volume iii and 

 five the larger portion of volume iv of the magazine. 



F. H. Newell, 

 Eliza R. Scidmore, 



Secretaries. 



