The Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington contains the official records ("minutes") of the meetings of the Society. Each meeting is numbed and the minutes include a record of the topics discussed at the meeting. Many of the minutes also include abstracts of papers presented at the meeting. In addition, each Bulletin contains formal papers that were discussed at the meetings and approved for publication by the Society. Each Bulletin also includes a list of members, the standing rules of the Society, the address of the retiring president, and, often, biographical material on the members. The first ten bulletins, covering the period 1871-1887, were published by the Society in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution. Volumes eleven through fourteen cover the period 1888-1904. Volume fifteen contains only the retiring president addresses for 1906 to 1908 and 1910, obituary addresses, and other invited addresses. The bulletins were widely distributed among members and academic libraries, including Harvard University and the University of California.
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