ANNUAL MEETING. 175 



Expendihires. 



Keimbursing life fund by order of board $350 OO 



Forty-four checks paid to December 1, 1881 ._ 1,380 96 



Appropriation for local society work 45 00 



Total expenditures 81,775 96 



Total Receipts and Expenditures. 



Total receipts from December 7, 1881, to December 1, 1882 $2,178 43 



Total expenditures from December 7, 1881, to December 1, 1882.. 1,775 96 



Balance in treasury at this date $402 47 



All of which is respectfully submitted, 



S. M. PEARSA.LL, Treasurer. 

 Dated Grand Rapids, December 1, 1882. 



secketary's annual statement. 



My report this year will be very brief. The first annual statement I made, 

 after being elected Secretary of this society, embodied a financial statement, 

 a report upon library matters, as well as suggestions for future work. Th& 

 Treasurer will this year make a very complete report v;pon the first ; the Libra- 

 rian's statement relieves me from any reference to the second, and our worthy 

 President has already taken care of the last, so that really I have little 

 ground to cover. 



Board Meetings. 



Tlie Executive Board has held six sessions since we last convened in annual 

 meeting, as follows : 



December 19, 1881, in Jackson. 



February 27, 1882, in Jackson. 



March 1, 1882, in Hudson. 



June 23, 1882, in Pentwater. 



September 19, 1882, in Jackson. 



The December meeting was fully reported in our volume of 1881. The 

 February meeting was occupied wholly with matters connected with the State- 

 fair. The March meeting ordered 1,000 of our school pamphlets issued, and 

 the June meeting placed at Pentwater. The June meeting was quite an 

 important one; the place of the annual meeting was decided upon; the com- 

 pensation of the Librarian was placed at $50.00 per annum, to be paid quar- 

 terly. Mr. Chilson's resignation was accepted, and Mr. J. N. Stearns- 

 appointed to fill the vacancy; Mr. Guild's resignation was accepted, and the 

 appointment of a successor left to the President, the vacancy being subse- 

 quently filled by Mr. John Abbott of Lapeer. The Business Committee, 

 through its resignations, was broken up and rearranged, witli Mr. Scott, of 

 Ann Arbor, as Chairman, and Messrs. Satterlee and Stearns as associates. 

 At the September meeting matters connected with the details of the fair occu- 

 pied the attention of the Board. An invitation from the Calhoun County 

 Agricultural Society, to hold our February'meeting in Marshall, was accepted; 

 reports of the President as delegate to meeting of Mississippi Valley Society, 

 and of the Secretary as delegate to American Forestry Congress, were received. 

 It was also decided at this session to have the next issue of our fruit cata- 



