382 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
the Society. Five of the papers were reports of the Science Com¬ 
mittees. The lantern was nsed on three evenings. A biographical 
notice of one deceased member was read, viz., of Charles 
Anthony Schott. The matter presented in the regular papers 
may be classified in a general way as follows: Astronomical, 7 
papers; Geodetic, 7; Mathematical, 4; Physics, 4; Medical, 3; 
Biographical, 2; Magnetic, 2, and Geographic, Statistical, 
Bibliographical, Paleontology, Archeology, and Railroads, 1 each, 
During the year 322 copies of volume xiii of the Bulletin were 
bound, and 284 copies distributed to establishments on the ex¬ 
change list. Two papers, viz., Report of the Physical Science 
Committee, pages 93-138 of volume xiv of the Bulletin, and of the 
Mathematical Science Committee, pages 139-166 of the Bulletin, 
were published and promptly * distributed to members and to 
establishments on the exchange list. 
There are appended to this report the following lists: 
1. Of the Bulletins of the Philosophical Society distributed 
from, and received at, the depository in the Smithsonian Institu¬ 
tion during the year. 
2. Of the Bulletins on hand. 
3. Of the separates of Bulletins xi, xii, xiii, and xiv on hand. 
4. A statement of the number of publications received in ex¬ 
change for publications of the Societ}^, these numbers being 
classified by countries. 
A short statement of the manner in which the publications of 
the Society are distributed, and in which the publications re¬ 
ceived in return are disposed of, is here given for the informa¬ 
tion of members. The past practice has been to distribute the 
Bulletins in completed volumes, the exchange-list copies being 
held back until the volume is completed. This practice ended 
with volume xiii. The separates of volume xiv are being sent 
out as soon as printed to the whole exchange list, as well as to 
the membership of the Society, thus insuring that the papers 
will reach the readers much sooner than heretofore. At present 
the separates of Bulletins are being sent to 283 different estab¬ 
lishments. There are 238 establishments from which publica¬ 
tions are being received. The difference between these numbers 
283 and 238 is accounted for by various establishments to which 
the publications are sent, but from which nothing is received, as 
