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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE FOR 1895. 
Washington, D. C., January 3 , 1896. 
To the Philosophical Society of Washington : 
The undersigned, a committee elected at the annual meeting 
of the Society, December 21, 1895, for the purpose of auditing 
the accounts of the Treasurer, respectfully report as follows : 
We have examined the statement of receipts, including dues, 
interest, and sales, and find the same to be correct. 
We have examined the statement of disbursements, compared 
it with the vouchers, and find that they agree. 
We have examined the returned checks (including the two 
checks, amounting to $37.74, referred to in the last auditing re¬ 
port) and vouchers and find that they agree. 
We have examined the bank book and find that the balance 
reported by Riggs & Co. December 18, 1895, viz., $516.25, agrees 
with the Treasurer’s report. 
We have examined the United States and Cosmos Club bonds 
belonging to the Society and find them to be in amount and 
character as represented in the Treasurer’s report, aggregating 
$5,500. 
J. R. Eastman. 
Isaac Winston. 
Lieut. W. H. Beehler, U. S. N., read a communication on 
The compensation of vibrations and other motions of a vessel 
at sea for the constant level base of the solarometer. [On this 
subject see a paper entitled The Solarometer, a modern navi¬ 
gating instrument, in Proceedings of the United States Naval 
Institute, vol. xxi, no. 1, whole no., 73.] 
It was illustrated by diagrams and a solarometer. Discussed 
by Messrs. Bigelow, Baker, and the author. 
Mr. E. D. Preston read a paper entitled Graphic reduction 
of star places. [Published in this volume, pp. 163-182.] 
It was illustrated by diagrams and discussed by Messrs. Big¬ 
elow, Win lock, Baker, Farquhar, and the author. 
