STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETV. 5 



"21 '' Reade, Brewster, & Co., (publishing Transactions) 300.00 



May 20 " do do do - 500.50 



Nov. 14 " O. B. Galusha (part salary for 1872) - 150.00 



27 " do do - - 150.00 



Dec 10 " J. E. Starr (postage and traveling expenses) - 7.46 



Whole amount paid on warrants, - - $1,857.85 



Leaving in the Treasury the sum of $1,010.34 



Centralia, Dec. loth, 1872. 



Jonathan Huggins, Treasurer. 



On motion of the Secretary, a committee consisting of Messrs. H. 

 C. Freeman, P. Earle and E. Daggy, was appointed to take into consid- 

 eration the suggestions and recommendations contained in the President's 

 address, and report to this meeting. 



VV. C. Flagg. — I move that the Treasurer's Report be referred to 

 an auditing committee. Motion carried. 



President. — I will announce the committee in a few minutes. 



The Secretary, O. B. Galusha, presented the following 



REPORT OF SECRETARY. 



Mr. President, and Members of the Society : 



Perhaps an apology is due from me, or at least an explanation, of 

 the cause of tlie delay in publishing the last volume of Transactions of 

 this Society. 



I was instructed by a majority of the Executive Board, and solicited 

 by other prominent members of the Society, to procure the annual re- 

 port of the State Entomologist to bind with tlie volume, if it could be 

 done without the expense of printing it. I accordingly obtained a ready 

 pledge from Governor Palmer for one thousand copies of that report for 

 this purpose, and also a pledge from the Superintendent of the State 

 printing, that the report would be ready by the 20th of February, at the 

 latest. I accordingly phnned the volume, and made a contract with the 

 publishers, to include this report; but its publication, by the State Prin- 

 ter was deferred from time to time, so that it was not received by me 

 until about May ist, though the Transactions of this Society were printed 

 and ready for the binder, more than a month previous. This delayed 

 the issue of the volume until the 15th day of May. 



1 trust that, hereafter, the Executive Board will instruct the Secre- 

 tary to wait for no outside matter after the regular proceedings and 

 papers of this Society are ready for publication, however desirable it 

 may be to secure such valuable papers as this Entomological Report. 



