Mr. President, and Members of the Naval Institute:
I have the honor to submit the following report concerning the affairs of the Naval Institute for the year 1883.
| Jan. 1883. | Jan. 1884. | Increase. |
Members................................. | 547 | 583 | 36 |
Life members........................... | 15 | 36 | 21 |
Honorary members.................. | 9 | 9 | ... |
Associate members.................. | 20 | 58 | 38 |
Corresponding Societies, Home.... | 12 | 14 | 2 |
Corresponding Societies, Foreign. | 10 | 13 | 3 |
Periodicals, Home..................... | 7 | 10 | 3 |
Periodicals, Foreign................... | 8 | 8 | ... |
Libraries................................... | 8 | 8 | ... |
Subscribers............................. | 11 | 16 | 5 |
Navy Department..................... | 25 | 25 | ... |
Bureau of Navigation................ | 50 | 50 | ... |
War Department...................... | ... | 100 | 100 |
Total issue..... | 722 | 930 | 208 |
| Members. | Life | Hon. | Assoc. |
Joined.......................................... | 100 | 18 | 1 | 41 |
Reinstated................................... | 5 | ... | … | ... |
Resigned.................................... | 54 | ... | … | 1 |
Died............................................ | 8 |
| 1 | ... |
Dropped...................................... | 6 | ... | … | ... |
Transferred to Life Member.......... | 1 | ... | … | 2 |
Transferred from Member............ | … | 1 | … | ... |
Transferred from Associate Member. | … | 2 | … | … |
Increase.............. | 36 | 21 |
| 38 |
Sales of the Proceedings during the year 1883:
Complete sets, bound in volumes, 17………. | 380 |
Single copies……………………………………………… | 2680 |
Total……………………………………………… | 3060 |
Reprints from the Proceedings sold…………… | 1309 |
Orders for the greater part of the above mentioned sales were received through Lieutenant John H. Moore, U. S. N., Corresponding Secretary, Washington Branch.
In order to replenish the stock of those numbers of the Proceedings, the edition of which was exhausted or nearly so, it has been found necessary to obtain 134 copies of the Proceedings by purchase from members and book-dealers.
Proceeedings on hand April 13th, 1882…… | 1403 copies. |
“ “ “ March 14th, 1883................ | .2689 “ |
“ “ “ January 1st, 1884................ | 4935 “ |
Since January x, 1883, six numbers of the Proceedings have been issued, viz:
Vol. VIII. No. 4, Whole No. 22...... | 1400 copies ordered. |
Vol. IX. No. 1, Whole No. 23......... | 1100 " |
Vol. IX. No. 2, Whole No. 24......... | 1100 " |
Vol. IX. No. 3, Whole No. 25......... | 3000 " |
Vol. IX. No. 4, Whole No. 26......... | 3000 " |
Vol. IX. No. 5, Whole No. 27......... | 1300 " |
| 10900 |
In addition to the above, a second edition of Vol. II. (Whole No. 2), 300 copies, was received from the printer in February last.
A second edition of Vol. VI. No. 1, Whole No. n, is now being printed, and it is expected that the edition, 250 copies, will be ready for delivery next month. The material for Nos. 28 and 29 is now in the hands of the printer. The former number will be issued about February 1st next, and the latter number a month later.
Electrotype plates of the Chicago, Boston, Dolphin, from No. 26, were sold to the following papers, viz. Chicago News, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Herald, Boston Herald, Philadelphia Record, Washington National Republican, Army and Navy Journal, Army and Navy Register. Electrotypes of all the plates from No. 26 have recently been sold to the Navy Department.
Complete sets of the Proceedings have been exchanged with the American Chemical Journal, Baltimore, Md., also with the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, England.
The following Corresponding Societies have been added to our list of exchanges, during the past year, viz.
United States.
American Chemical Journal, Baltimore, Md.
American Iron and Steel Association, Philadelphia, Pa.
Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences, New Haven, Conn.
Foreign.
Institution of Civil Engineers, London, England.
Norsk Tidsskrift for Sovaesen, Horten, Norway.
I regret to state that but two essays have been received in competition for the Prize of 1884. The following gentlemen were invited to serve as the Judges of Award, and have kindly accepted the task imposed upon them, viz. Rear-Admiral C. R. P. Rodgers, U. S. N.; Hon. Joseph R. Hawley, U. S. Senator from Connecticut; D. C. Gilman, LL. D., President Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
Very respectfully,
CHARLES M. THOMAS,
Secretary.
Annapolis, Md., January 10, 1884.