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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT. 
Balance on hand at date of last annual report. .$897 91 
Receipts as above, present year... 888 73 
$1,786 64 
Expenditures as above, present year. 448 05 
Cash balance on hand... $1,338 59 
The investments of the Society are as follows: 
Cosmos Club bonds at 5 per cent... $2,500 00 
Cosmos Club bonds at 4 per cent. 2,000 00 
Columbia Railway bond at 6 per cent. 1,000 00 
United States registered bond at 4 per cent. 500 00 
$7,000 00 
Very respectfully, Bernard R. Green, 
Treasurer. 
The election of officers for the ensuing year was then held, with 
the following result: 
President .. 
Vice-Presidents 
Treasurer . 
Secretaries. ... 
.C. F. Marvin. 
C. Abbe. G. W. Littlehales. 
J. G. Hagen. A. L. Day. 
B. R. Green. 
.J. F. Hayford. C. K. Wead. 
General Committee. 
C. G. Abbot. 
L. A. Bauer. 
L. J. Briggs. 
W. A. DeCaindry. 
I. Winston. 
L. A. Fischer. 
R. A. Harris. 
H. M. Paul. 
E. B. Rosa. 
577th Meeting. January 2, 1904. 
President Marvin in the chair. 
Twenty-three persons present. 
Mr. P. G. Nutting spoke, by invitation, on The electron 
theory of the radiation of gases, pointing out how this theory ex- 
