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The following is the list of resignations: 
Henry Hobart Bates. Alexander Smyth Christie. 
Frederic Perkins Dewey. Joseph Silas Diller. 
John Henry McCormick. Robert Simpson Woodward. 
The General Committee held 16 meetings; average attend¬ 
ance, 10; maximum, 14; minimum, 7. 
The Society held 16 meetings, 14 of which were devoted to 
the reading and discussion of papers, one to the President’s 
annual address, and one to the annual meeting for reports and 
election of officers. The average attendance at the 14 meetings 
was 28, one less than last year. 
Thirty-one papers were presented by 20 members and 6 guests. 
Ten biographical notices of deceased members were read, as 
follows: 
Thomas Antisell. 
John Mills Browne. 
Daniel Currier Chapman. 
William Lee. 
Charles Valentine Riley. 
Stephen Vincent Benet. 
Thomas Lincoln Casey. 
Robert Edward Earll. 
Walter Lamb Nicholson, 
William Bower Taylor. 
All meetings were held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos 
Club except that of December 12, which, being the occasion of 
the annual address of the President, was held at the Builders’ 
Exchange, No. 719-721 Thirteenth street. 
Two papers were published during the year, viz., Alaska as it 
was and is 1865-1895, the presidential address delivered by Mr. 
W. H. Dali; and, Graphic reduction of star places, by Mr. E. D. 
Preston. 
On January 18,1896, Mr. Rogers Birnie was elected Treasurer 
in place of Mr. W. A. De Caindry, resigned. 
On October 31, 1896, Mr. J. Elfreth Watkins was elected Sec¬ 
retary in place of Mr. W. C. Winlock, who died September 20. 
Bernard R. Green, 
J. Elfreth Watkins, 
Secretaries. 
The annual report of the Treasurer was read and referred to 
an auditing committee consisting of Messrs. Henry Farquhar, 
C. K. Wead, and Walter Hough. 
