PROCEEDINGS. 
381 
By election and qualification of new members, 8; by transfer 
from the absent list, 1; making a net loss of 4. The present 
active membership is 108. Four persons elected within two 
months of date have not yet qualified as members. 
The number on the absent list is 75, two more than at the date 
of the last report. 
The list of deceased members is: 
Samuel Clagett Busey. Charles Anthony Schott. 
The new members are: 
R. L. Faris., William H. Burger. 
Wm. Weinrich, Jr. John C. Hoyt. 
Walter G. Cady. Daniel L. Hazard. 
The following members were transferred from the active to 
the absent list: 
H. S. Davis. J. T. Hedrick. 
H. S. Pritchett. 
Mr. C. C. Yates was transferred from the absent to the active 
list. 
The following members resigned membership: 
Joseph K. McCammon. Whitman Cross. 
D. W. Taylor. W. B. Powell. 
B. Pickman Mann. 
The General Committee held 18 meetings, at which the aver¬ 
age attendance was 12. 
The Society held 17 meetings, of which 15 were devoted to the 
reading and discussion of papers, one to the incorporation of the 
Society, and one to the annual meeting for reports and election 
of officers. 
The average attendance at the meetings devoted to reading 
and discusion of papers was 29, the largest attendance being at 
the session of February 2, devoted to the discussion of the 
eclipse of 1900, at which 55 were present. 
Thirty-four papers were presented by thirty persons, of which 
five were presented upon invitation by persons not members of 
