420 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
aged by an Executive Committee of 9, chosen from its own mem¬ 
bership by the General Committee. The principal reasons for 
this change from past practice was to avoid the necessity of 
securing a quorum of so large a committee as the General Com¬ 
mittee merely to transact routine business. The change has 
worked well. During the year the General Committee has met 
but four times. The Executive Committee has held 10 meetings 
with an average attendance of 7 out of 9. 
The Society has held 17 meetings. One of these was devoted 
to the Presidents address, one to memorial addresses, one to a 
reception and exhibit of apparatus at the National Bureau of 
Standards, one to an exhibit of boomerang throwing, and one to 
the annual meeting. The remaining 12 meetings were devoted 
to the reading and discussion of papers. 
The average attendance at the regular meetings held at the 
Cosmos Club was 29. The lantern was used in connection with 
four papers. Twenty-seven papers in all were presented, which 
may be roughly classified as follows: 
Miscellaneous 8, pertaining to Physics 4, to Meteorology 3, to 
Geodesy 3, to Astronomy 3, to Mathematics 2, to Navigation 2, 
to Terrestrial Magnetism 1, and to Mathematical Physics 1. 
Volume xiv of the Bulletin has been increased by 42 pages, 
numbered 205-246, which have been published and distributed 
as two separates. 
The distribution of the publications of the Society and the 
receipt of publications in exchange, and their distribution to 
various organizations in this city, has continued steadily in the 
manner set forth in detail in the annual report of the Secretaries 
for 1901. There is 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 Society, these numbers being 
classified by countries. 
Bespectfully submitted, Charles K. Wead, 
John F. Hayford, 
Secretaries. 
