records of meetings. 737 



Publication Fund. 



Receipts. 



Balance, April 30, 1908 % 344.30 



Appleton Fund investments 639.63 



Centennial Fund investments ...... 2,303.86 



Sale of publications 713.91 $4,001.70 



Expenditures. 



Publication $3,156.40 



Vault rent (part) 12.50 



Income transferred to principal 139.81 $3,308.71 



Balance, April 30, 1908 ~ '. T 692.99 



$4,001.70 



The following reports were also presented : — 

 Report of the Librarian. 



The work of cataloguing the library has been continued throughout 

 the past year during such time as Miss Wyman has been able to de- 

 vote to it. The books on the four upper floors of the stack-building, 

 including the cases of folio plates, are completely catalogued. The 

 cataloguing of the books on the first and second floors is now going on. 



The work of completing the sets of society publications now in the 

 library, because of lack of assistance, has not progressed beyond mak- 

 ing the list of parts wanting in the various sets. The routine work 

 of the business of the society and library takes all of the Assistant 

 Librarian's time, although as Mrs. Holden lives in the building through 

 the winter months, she gives much extra time to the library work. 



The number of bound volumes in the library at the time of the 

 last report was 29,089. 822 volumes have been added during the 

 past year, making the number now on the shelves 29,911. The num- 

 ber added includes 130 old books which were in the fourth story of 

 the house, and not before counted. 



89 books have been borrowed from the library by 25 persons, includ- 

 ing 20 Fellows, and by 5 libraries. 



All the books borrowed during the year except eight have been 

 returned. 



The expenses charged to the library are as follows : Miscellaneous, 

 $476.25 (which includes $141.00 for cataloguing) ; Binding, $555.60 

 General, and $84.55 Rumford, Funds; Subscription, $501.87 General, 

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