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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OP WASHINGTON. 
444th Meeting. December 21, 1895. 
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING. 
President Dall in the chair. 
Twenty-four members present. 
The minutes of the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting were read 
and adopted. 
The annual report of the Secretaries was read and accepted. 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARIES FOR 1895. 
Washington, D. C., December 21, 1895. 
To the Philosophical Society of Washington : 
The Secretaries have the honor to submit the following annual 
report for the year 1895 : 
The number of active members given in the last annual report 
was 155, of which number 6 have died, 5 have resigned, 4 have 
been dropped, and 4 transferred to the absent list. The total 
loss has thus amounted to 19 members, while but 4 new mem¬ 
bers have been elected during the year and 2 transferred from 
the absent to the active list, leaving a net loss to the Society of 
13 members. The present active membership is therefore 142. 
On the absent list there were 70 members at the beginning of 
the year, of whom 3 have died and 1 has resigned. This deple¬ 
tion and the balance of transfers above noted between the active 
and absent lists leaves at the present time a net total of 69 on 
the absent list. 
The grand total of members, both active and absent, is there¬ 
fore 211. 
The active members who died were : 
John Mills Browne. 
Daniel Currier Chapman. 
Stephen Vincent Benet. 
The new members elected are: 
Elliott Woods. 
Jesse Pawling, Jr. 
William Bower Taylor. 
Walter Lamb Nicholson. 
Charles Valentine Riley. 
Leland Perry Shidy. 
Adolph Lindenkohl. 
