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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
The report of the Secretaries was read and accepted. The 
following is the 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARIES FOR 1897. 
Washington, D. C., December 11 , 1897. 
To the Philosophical Society of Washington: 
Gentlemen: Your Secretaries have the honor to submit the 
following report for the year 1897 : 
The number of active members at the date of the last annual 
report was 123. Of this number 2 have died, 4 have resigned, 2 
have been transferred to the absent list, and 4 have been dropped 
for non-payment of dues. There has thus been a loss of 12 
members. The membership has been increased by the election 
of 8 new members and by the transfer of 2 from the absent to 
the active list. There has thus been a net loss of 2, and the 
present active membership is 121. 
The number of members on the absent list at date of last re¬ 
port was 79. This number was decreased by 2 transfers to the 
active list and increased by 2 transfers from the active lisf, leav¬ 
ing the number on the absent list the same as at date of last 
report, viz., 79. 
The following is the list of new members : 
Philip Rounseville Alger. 
L- Eugene Emerson. 
George Colton Maynard. 
James Page. 
Paul Brockett. 
Herbert Friedenwald. 
Frederick Haynes Newell. 
Charles Colt Yates. 
The active members who died during the year are: 
Newton Lemuel Bates. Charles Hugo Kummell. 
The transfers from the absent to the active list are: 
William Henry Holmes. Henry Smith Pritchett. 
And from the active to the absent list: 
Asaph Hall. Charles Richard Van Hise. 
The resignations are : 
Philip Rounseville Alger. Stimson Joseph Brown. 
Myrick Hascall Doolittle. John Sherman. 
