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Annual Excursion and Field Meeting, May 22, 7^97.— About 250 members 

 and guests went bj' special train, leaving Washington at 9 a. m., via Ma- 

 nassas and Thorofare Gap, to Manassas Gap, Va. On arrival, at 11.15 a. ni., 

 a field meeting ^vas held in the open air, President Hubbard in tlie chair, 

 and addresses were delivered by Major Jed Hotchkiss, on War History ; 

 Mr ]M. K. Campbell, on the Geography and Geology of the Region ; and 

 Gen. Chas. H. Grosvenor, M. C. Lunch was then served, after which an 

 ascent of Mt. Monterey, to the northward, was made by many of the 

 party, a few climbing High Knob, to the southward. The return to 

 Washington was made at 4.30 p. m., arriving at 6.30. 



Adjourned Annual Meeting, June 11, 1897. — Vice-president Merriam in 

 the chair. The annual report of the Recording Secretary was read and 

 accepted. The annual report of the Treasurer was read and referred to 

 the Auditing Committee. The Recording (Secretary stated that as no 

 printed notice of pending amendments to the By-laws had been sent to 

 members, owing to his enforced absence from the city, they could not 

 properly come up for final action at that meeting. Said amendments are 

 as follows : 



Akticle V. Add " No initiation fee shall be required of ex-members in 

 case of their reelection to membership. Annual dues shall be reduced 

 one-half for the current season in the case of members elected after the 

 end of January, or who resign before that date ; and they shall be re- 

 mitted altogether for the current season in the case of members elected 

 in April and May, upon payment of full dues for the following season." 

 Omit "Suitable rebates may be made, in the discretion of the Board of 

 Managers, in the annual dues of members elected in April and May." 



Omit "within thirty days after election" (payment of dues by new 

 members), and add " upon notice of election, and no certificate of elec- 

 tion shall be issued until the required first payment shall have been made." 



After "Annual dues may be commuted and life membership acquired 

 by the payment of fifty dollars" add " , or, by ex-members or members 

 who have already paid in dues as much as fifty dollars, by the additional 

 payment at one time of twenty-five dollars." 



Add "Suitable restrictions may be made in the issue of tickets and 

 publications to members in arrears." 



Article VI. Omit " The Board of Managers shall set apart a time and 

 place for the annual address of the President and Vice-presidents." 



Article VH. Insert after " which (the magazine) shall be sent to all 

 members of the Society," insert " not in arrears of dues." Add at end of 

 same paragraph, " The number issued next after the annual meeting shall 

 contain the By-laws and a list of the Oflicers and Members of the Board 

 of Managers." 



Elections — May 7.— Geo. F. Curtis, Elmer S. Farwell, Alpheus H. 

 Hardy, Evert L. Harvey, Prof. Jos. V. Jackman, John P. Logan, Hon. 

 L. T. Michener, Henry T. Offterdinger, Miss J. A. Read, Clinton Smith, 

 Herbert Wright. 



June 11.— L. S. Brown, Lieut. J. B. Cahoon, U. S. N., John G. Gossel- 

 ing, Niels Gron, Judge Martin F. Morris, Miss Morris, James B. Pinkerton, 

 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Miss Louise Taylor. 



