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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
Garrick Mallery. 
B: P. Mann. 
J. B. Marvin. 
O. T. Mason. 
T. C. Mendenhall. 
Cosmos Mindeleff. 
Simon Newcomb. 
W. L. Nicholson. 
W. M. Poindexter. 
J. W. Powell. 
W. B. Powell. 
D. W. Prentiss. 
E. D. Preston. 
C. Y. Riley. 
G. A. Schott. 
T. W. Smillie. 
A. H. Thompson. 
0. H. Tittmann. 
C. D. Walcott. 
J. E. Watkins. 
J. C. Welling. 
W. C. Winlock. 
H. C. Yarrow. 
W. S. Yeates. 
F. W. True. 
F. L. O. Wadsworth. 
J. M. Toner. 
A. C. True. 
H. G. Ogden. 
H. M. Paul. 
A. C. Peale. 
Mr. Mitchell, reporter for the Washington Post, was also present. 
The guests of the evening were: 
William Harkness, President of the American Association for the Ad¬ 
vancement of Science. 
O. T. Mason, President of the Anthropological Society. 
C. V. Riley, President of the Biological Society. 
Gardiner G. Hubbard, President of the National Geographic Society. 
W. H. Ashmead, Vice-President of the Entomological Society. 
Garrick Mallery, President of the Joint Commission. 
Letters of regret were presented from : 
Chief Justice M. W. Fuller, Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution. 
Professor S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
Professor O. C. Marsh, President of the National Academy of Sciences. 
Hon. W. T. Harris, Commissioner of Education. 
F. P. Dewey, President of the Chemical Society. 
Of the founders of the Society eight were present. Their 
names are printed in bold-faced type in the preceding list. 
Of the remainder Thomas Antisell, S. V. Benet, and T. A. 
Jenkins were absent by reason of illness. Asaph Hall, J. G. 
Parke, and W. B. Taylor, although in Washington, were una¬ 
ble to attend. B. F. Greene responded from West Lebanon, 
N. H. From T. L. Casey and from G. H. Elliott there was no 
response. Of the forty-four founders of the Society but seven¬ 
teen * are living. 
Dinner ended, the President said : 
We commemorate today the founding of the oldest of the scientific 
societies of Washington—the foster-mother of all w r hich have since come 
into existence—the successor and the heir of those which had preceded. 
* Perhaps this number should be eighteen, the committee having no 
knowledge of J. B. Wheeler. 
