December 28, 1888, Fifteenth Meeting.
The Society met in the Society Hall of the Cosmos Club, President Hubbard in the chair. Owing to the absence from the city of the Secretaries, Mr. O. H. Tittmann was requested to act as Secretary of the meeting. The minutes of the first and fourteenth meetings were read and approved. The report of the Secretaries was read, in their absence, by the temporary Secreretary, and was approved. The Treasurer's report, showing a balance on hand of $626.70, was read and approved, as was also that of the auditing committee.
The President announced that vacancies caused by the resignation of two of the managers, Messrs. W. D. Johnson and Henry Mitchell, had been filled by the Board on the 15th of November, by the election of Messrs. O. H. Tittmann and C. A. Kenaston; and that a vacancy caused by the resignation of Vice-President John R. Bartlett, had been filled by the election of Lieut. George L. Dyer, on November 30th.
The Society then proceeded to the election of officers, with following result:
President—Gardiner G. Hubbard.
Vice-Presidents—Herbert G. Ogden, [land]; George L. Dyer, [sea]; A. W. Greely, [air]; C. Hart Merriam, [life]; A. H. Thomson, [art];
Treasurer—Charles J. Bell.
Recording Secretary—Henry Gannett.
Corresponding Secretary—George Kennan.
Managers—Cleveland Abbe, Marcus Baker, Rogers Birnie, Jr., G. Browne Goode, W. B. Powell, J. C. Welling, C. A. Kenaston, O. H. Tittmann.
January 11, 1889, Sixteenth Meeting.
The paper of the evening was entitled, "The Great Plains of Canada," and was presented by Professor C. A. Kenaston, of Howard University.
January 25, 1889, Seventeenth Meeting.
The paper of the evening was entitled, "Irrigation in California," by Mr. William Hammond Hall, State Engineer of California. To be published in the "National Geographic Magazine," Vol. I, No. 4.
