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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
The investments of the Society are at present as follows : 
4 per cent. United States bonds 
Cosmos Club bonds. 
Columbia Railway bond. 
$1,500 00 
3,500 00 
1,000 00 
Total 
$6,000 00 
Very respectfully, 
Bernard R. Green, 
Treasurer. 
REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE FOR 1899. 
Washington, D. C., January 6 , 1900. 
To the Philosophical Society of Washington : 
The committee appointed to audit the accounts of the Treas¬ 
urer begs leave to report that the statement of receipts, includ¬ 
ing dues and interest, has been examined and found correct, 
that the disbursements and checks agree with the vouchers, and 
that the balance reported by the Riggs National Bank as on 
deposit December 20, 1899, is the same as that stated by the 
Treasurer at the annual meeting. 
The securities are found in the box of the Society at the 
National Safe Deposit, Saving and Trust Company to be as 
follows: 
United States 4 per cent, bonds, 1877. $1,500 
Columbia R. R, 6 per cent, bonds, 1894, with coupon, 
April 1, 1900. 1,000 
Cosmos Club 5 per cent, bonds, 1886, with coupon, June 
1, 1900. 1,800 
Cosmos Club 5 per cent, bonds, 1891, with coupon, Jan¬ 
uary 31, 1900. 700 
Cosmos Club 5 per cent, bonds, 1893, with coupon, Jan¬ 
uary 31, 1900. 1,000 
$ 6,000 
Arrearages of dues for 1898 amount to $30, and those for 
1899 amount to $110. 
Paul B rockett. 
John F. Hayford. 
