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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARIES FOR 1896. 
Washington, D. C., December 26, 1896. 
To the Philosophical Society of Washington: 
The Secretaries have the honor to submit the following report 
for the year 1896 : 
The number of active members at the date of last report was 
142. Of this number 6 have died, 6 have resigned, 10 have been 
transferred to the absent list, and 6 have been dropped for the 
non-payment of dues. Thus there has been a loss of 28. The 
membership has been increased b}' the election of 9 new mem¬ 
bers. The net loss in active membership is therefore 19, and the 
present active membership is 123. 
The number of members on the absent list at date of last 
report was 69. This number was increased during the year by 
10 transfers, making the total number on the absent list, so far 
as known, 79. 
The total membership, both active and absent, is 202. 
The list of deceased members is : 
Thomas Lincoln Casey. Robert Edward Earll. 
George Brown Goode. Samuel Shellabarger. 
Joseph Meredith Toner. William Crawford Winlock. 
The list of new members is : 
Immanuel Moses Casanowicz. 
Charles Richards Dodge. 
Walter Hough. 
Rene de Saussure. 
George Miller Sternberg. 
James Robison Cook. 
Harry Franklin Flynn. 
William Fowke Ravenel Phil¬ 
lips. 
David Watson Taylor. 
The following members were transferred to the absent list: 
Tarleton Hoffman Bean. 
Lincoln Grant Eakins. 
Mark Waldo Harrington. 
William Henry Holmes, 
Alexander McAdie, 
Oliver Lanard Fassig. 
John Fillmore Hayford. 
Joseph Paxson Iddings. 
Jefferson Franklin Moser. 
Jesse Pawling, Jr, 
