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Treasurer's Eeport. 



Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 



Office of the Treasurer, 



Madison. Feb. 14, 1872. 



Hon. J. W. HoYT, President of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and 

 Letters: 



Sir: — I have tlie honor to report the financial condition of the Academy 



as follows: 



Total annual fees received from 44 members §^480 00 



To fees from life members 807 25 



11,287 25 

 Disbursed in payment of warrants, as per vouchers hertofore 



and herewith furnished 382 75 



Leaving a balance in the treasury of $904 50 



Placed to credit of life members' permanent fund ^807 25 



To credit of general fund 97 25 



1904 50 



Report of Fixaxce Comaiittee. 



I have this day examined the foregoing report and account of the Treas- 

 urer, and compared the same with the vouchers and stub books, and find 

 the same in all respects correct. 



MADiS0N,Feb. 14, 1872. 



NELSON DEWEY, 



Chairman Finance Committee. 



As the duties of all officers have been performed without 

 compensation, and the expenses of members in making their 

 investigations and attending the meetings have been defrayed 

 by themselves, the only expenditures have been for incidental 

 purposes and for the printing of the Bulletin, of which five 

 numbers have been issued. 



The Museum of Natural History and the Useful Arts has 

 made considerable growth, and must eventually come to be 

 exceedingly valuable to the State for scientific uses, as well as- 

 interesting to the general public. By favor of the Governor 

 and of the State Agiicultural Society, it occupies the larger 



