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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. 
The committee appointed to consider the communication of 
the Hon. John W. Hoyt relative to the Society’s taking action 
looking toward the establishment of a National University begs 
leave to report that its members sympathize with the idea of the 
establishment of the “ University of the United States ” at Wash¬ 
ington, and presume that many of the members of the Philosoph¬ 
ical Society share this feeling. The committee is of the opinion, 
however, that it is neither useful nor expedient for the Society 
to take any action on this subject as a society. The committee 
takes the liberty of suggesting that members of the Society in¬ 
terested in the project use their personal endeavors towards 
bringing about the establishment of the university, and, further, 
that the Secretary be authorized to reply to Mr. Hoyt in the 
spirit of the report of your committee, which is herewith respect- 
fully submitted. Lester F. Ward. 
H. H. Bates. 
F. W. Clarke. 
Cyrus Adler. 
J. H. Gore. 
Mr. G. Brown Goode, President of the Society in 1893, delivered 
an address entitled What has been done for science in America. 
[Not yet published.] 
427th Meeting. December 12, 1894. 
By the courtesy of the authorities of Columbian University, 
the meeting was held in the lecture room of that institution. 
Dr. Robert Fletcher, President of the Society, delivered the 
annual address ; subject, Anatomy and art. [Published in this 
volume, pp. 411-432; also in the form of separates.] 
428th Meeting. December 22, 1894. 
TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING. 
President Fletcher in the chair. 
Fifteen members present. 
The annual report of the Secretaries was read and accepted. 
