PROCEEDINGS. 
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The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows 
President . Marcus Baker. 
Vice-Presidents I F ' H - Bigelow. L. P. Ward. 
Vue -1 residents .{ O. H. Tittmann. C. D. Walcott. 
Treasurer .Rogers Birnie. 
Secretaries .J. Elfreth Watkins. B. R. Green. 
MEMBERS AT LARGE OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. 
Cyrus Adler. 
William A. De Caindry. 
J. Howard Gore. 
G. W. Littlehales. 
H. M. Paul. 
E. D. Preston. 
G. M. Sternberg. 
F. W. True. 
Richard Rathbun. 
461st Meeting. 
January 9, 1897. 
President Baker in the chair. 
Thirty-five members and guests present. 
Announcement was made of the standing committees as 
follows : 
Committee on Communications: 
Cyrus Adler. G. K. Gilbert. E. D. Preston. 
Committee on Publications: 
H. M. Paul. F. H. Newell. G. W. Littlehales. 
The report of the Auditing Committee appointed at the last 
meeting was read and accepted. 
REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE FOR 1896. 
Washington, January 5, 1897. 
To the Philosophical Society of Washington: 
The undersigned, a committee selected at the annual meeting 
of the Society, December 26, 1896, to audit the accounts of the 
Treasurer, respectfully report as follows: 
65—Bull. Phil. Soc„ Wash., Vol. 13. 
