Record. xlv 



EXPENDITURES. 



Publication of Transactions $,486 57 



General printing 174 60 



Library 118 52 



Improvements to property 175 63 



Service 1,394 50 



Sundry expenses 459 27 



Notes discounted and premiums paid 5,544 65 



Balance 1,38133 



$9,735 07 



INVENTORY. 



Real estate, 3817 Olive $25,000 00 



Improvements 1903 5,929 47 



Improvements 1904 .. 173 63 



Mortgage 3,500 00 



$34,603 10 



Report of the Librarian. 



It is with great pleasure and satisfaction, that I am able to 

 report that the first year of the Academy's occupation of its 

 own home has witnessed the re-establishment of its museum 

 of natural history objects. The few articles of value saved 

 from the fire, which the Academy suffered some years ago, 

 together with the fine Yandell Collection of fossils, purchased 

 four years ago, the beautiful collection of butterflies, mostly 

 tropical, presented to the Academy by subscription through 

 the efforts of the late Mrs. W. L. Bouton, a collection of 

 meteorites and of several hundred specimens of pottery from 

 the mounds of southern Missouri, and of forty human crania 

 from the same district, have been placed on exhibition in the 

 museum. 



During the year Mr. Frank Schwarz, of the Board of Cura- 

 tors, mounted two skulls of the Colorado Mountain Sheep 

 and two of the Buffalo, belonging to the Academy. 



Mr. Edwin Harrison, President of the Academy, presented 

 a portrait of the famous naturalist, Prof. Louis Agassiz, 

 taken when the Professor was winning fame for his great 

 scientific achievements. 



