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Printing has naturally been the main expense of the Society. 

 The other expenditures have amounted in all to $65.06, or an 

 average of about $6 per year. Of this amount the Society's 

 share in the publication of the Joint Directory of the Scientific 

 Societies of Washington has, in the three years in which we have 

 been represented, consumed nearly $32. The total amount 

 which has been collected since the Society started has been 

 $1,643.76, of which, as above stated, $1,457.43 has been ex 

 pended for publications and $65.06 for other expenses, leaving 

 a balance of $121.27 st ^ * n ^ ie treasury. Of this amount 

 $770.69 was contributed for the specific purpose of publication, 

 voluntarily and by a comparatively few members of the Society, 

 and the balance was derived from dues and the sale of Pro 

 ceeding, $630.14 from dues and $235.49 from sale of Proceed 

 ings. 



The great need of the Society at the present time is a permanent 

 publication fund of from $10,000 upwards, and members are 

 earnestly requested not to lose a single opportunity to press the 

 importance of such a donation to science in particular, and to the 

 world at large, upon chance millionaires of their acquaintance. 

 This reminder may seem somewhat farcical, but I happen to 

 know that one enthusiastic member has already approached two 

 men of large means, without, I am sorry to say, accomplishing 

 the result. He has retired from each encounter filled with the idea 

 that the average millionaire is poorer than the average govern 

 ment clerk. 



So long, however, as this country possesses men of the stamp 

 of Smithson, Rockafellar, Stanford, Clark, Cornell, Jesup, and 

 many others who might be mentioned, the Society need not 

 despair. 



Who knows but a clause may be found in the will of some one 

 of the men who are already active members of our Society, which 

 will put us upon a firm financial basis? We are not looking for 

 ward to the demise of any of our wealthy members, and hope 

 that they may be with us for many years to come. When, how 

 ever, full of years and full of honor, they prepare themselves for 

 the inevitable end, let us hope that, while the claims of family 

 must be paramount, a little slice of their accumulated riches may 

 be left to the struggling organization upon which they have shed 

 the lustre of their names. 



This one hampering question of means settled, the Society 

 possesses within itself the qualities of strength, vitality, and ability 

 which will, without doubt, place it among the foremost ento 

 mological organizations of the world. 



