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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
guest. Two biographical notices of deceased members were 
read, viz: 
Charles Hugo Kummell. Orlando Metcalfe Poe. 
All meetings were held in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos 
Club. One paper was published during the year, A century ot 
geography in the United States, b}^ Mr. Marcus Baker. 
E. D. Preston, 
J. Elfreth Watkins, 
Secretaries. 
The reports of the Treasurer and Auditing Committee were 
read and accepted. The Auditing Committee consisted of C. K. 
W ead and E. Goodfellow. 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TREASURER FOR 1898. 
Washington, D. C., December 7J, 1898. 
To the Philosophical Society of Washington: 
From December 11, 1897, the date of the last annual report, 
until July 13, 1898, Captain Rogers Birnie held the office of 
Treasurer, when, being suddenly ordered to the seat of the war 
with Spain, his accounts were transferred to the undersigned as 
his successor, elected by the General Committee. 
This report covers the whole period from December 11, 1897, 
to December 14, 1898. 
The income was $767; the expenses were $276.40, leaving a 
net gain of $490.60. To this should be added the value of cou¬ 
pons due December 1, 1898, not yet cut from $2,400 of Cosmos 
Club bonds, $60, making an actual gain of $550.60. 
On August 5 the Treasurer of the Cosmos Club called in $500 
of the Cosmos Club bonds of 1886, but was able to exchange 
therefor an equal value of bonds of the same Club of the 1891 
issue, which your Treasurer took advantage of. By this trans¬ 
action bonds Nos. 70, 135,136,159, and 185,5.20’s of 1886, were 
exchanged for Nos. 240 to 244, inclusive, 10.30 s of 1891. 
By last years report the investments of the Society appeared 
to be a total of $6,100, as follows: 
U. S. bonds, at 4 per cent. $1,500 
Columbia Street Railway bond, at 6 per cent. 1,000 
Cosmos Club bonds, at 5 per cent. 3,600 
$ 6,100 
