BULLETIN 
OF THE 
GENERAL MEETINGS. 
295th Meeting. January 15, 1887. 
President Harkness in the Chair. 
Fifty-one members present. 
Announcement was made of the election to membership of Messrs. 
Henry Laurens Whiting and Thomas William Symons. 
The following report of the Auditing Committee was presented 
by its chairman, Mr. Woodward, and was accepted: 
January 15, 1887. 
The undersigned, a committee appointed at the annual meeting 
of the Philosophical Society of Washington, December 18,1886, 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. 
We have examined the statement of disbursements and compared 
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, $485.52, to agree with the 
statement of the Treasurer’s report. 
We have examined the United States and other bonds belonging 
to the Society, and find them to be in amount and character as rep¬ 
resented in the Treasurer’s report, aggregating $3,100. 
R. S. Woodward, 
Swan M. Burnett, 
J. H. Kidder, 
Committee. 
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