STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 7 



The warrants drawn since the beginning of our last annual meeting 

 are the following : 



During the year 1S69. 



No. 51 — W. C. Flagg, Postage, Expressage, and Stationeiy, $ 50.00 



C2 — Geo. Bulkley, on account of Reporting, 20.00 



53 — Sam'l Edwards, Expenses Ad-Interim Committee, 43'6o 



5^. — E. S. Hull, Traveling Expenses allowed, 107.00 



55 — Winter Bros., Photographing, 7.00 



56 — George Bulkley, Balance for Reporting, 30.00 



57 — Thomas Meehan, Lecture and Traveling Expenses, 130.00 



Total, - $377.60 



During the Tear 1S70. 



No. 58 — D. B. Wier, Expenses on Ad-Interim Committee, $ 9-00 



59 — O. B. Galusha, on account of Salary, 100.00 



60 — C. V. Riley, 1000 Engravings, B. D. Walsh,..: 65.00 



61 — E. S. Hull, Account of Salary, 350,00 



62 — O. B. Galusha, for Ad-Interim Committee, 100.00 



63 — E. S. Hull, Account of Salary, 200.00 



64 — O. B. Galusha, Office Expenses, 50.00 



65 — W. C. Flagg, Expressage and Postage Reports 40.00 



66— R. P. Studley & Co., Bill of Printing, 1,553.89 



• Total, $2,467.89 



The items of the Bill of R. P. Studley & Co., are the following : 



For 33 Reams Paper, $ 297,00 



" 1,551,175 Ems Composition at 70c., 1,085.82 



" Paper and Printing 750 covers, -. 7.85 



" Press Work at 75 cts., 97-50 



•' Binding 1000 copies, ' 37-50 



" Packing Cases, Drayage, etc., 10.00 



Total, - - $1,635,67 



Less 5 per cent, as per agreement, 8 1.78 



$1053-^9 



Of this amount, the Northern Illinois Horticultural Society pays $175 

 and the Central Illinois Horticultural Society pays $65, leaving$i,3i3.89, 

 the amount the tt"ansactions of 1869 cost this Society, or some $50 less 

 than those of 1868. Our Secretary has been receiving bids for the vol- 

 ume fiar this year at rates very much below this, and it is hoped that the 

 expense of publication may be brought within $1,100. 



The subjects of securing the collection of late State Entomologist, 

 Mr. Walsh, to the State, and the appointment of a State Entomologist 

 to succeed him, were referred to the Executive Committee for their action. 

 In accordance with the instructions of the Society and the desire of the 

 other members of the Committee, Mr. Baldwin and myself waited upon 

 Governor Palmer soon after our last meeting adjourned and subsequently. 



