8o Finances 



The following table gives the principal items of receipts and disbursements 

 by the Treasurer for the years 1934-1939, inclusive : 



Fiscal year 



1933-4 

 1934-5 

 1935-6 

 1936-7 

 1937-8 

 1938-9 



1 Interest received only from Endowment for Research and General Funds. 



2 Grants in aid of research recommended by the Grants Committee and approved by the Council. 



3 Grants to the affiliated academies for use in aid of research, the amount available being approxi- 

 mately 50 cents per year for each member of an affiliated academy who is a member of the Association. 



4 Amounts paid for subscriptions to Science or The Scientific Monthly for life members and fifty- 

 year members. 



3 Annual Thousand Dollar Prize to the person who has been recommended by the Prize Committee 

 and approved by the Council as the recipient of the prize for a paper presented at the annual meeting 

 of the Association. The funds for the Thousand Dollar Prize are provided by an anonymous friend of 

 the Association. 



The following table gives the principal items of income and the principal 

 items of expense of the office of the Permanent Secretary for the years 1934- 

 1939, inclusive: 



From the Permanent Secretary's Reports 



Circular- Meetings Regis- 

 Fiscal year Dues 1 Journals 2 Office 3 iaation 4 Expense 5 tration G Divisions 1 



1933-4 $81,848 $50,116 $19,852 $2923 $9194 $2297 $2133 



1934-5 81,766 50,425 20,051 3650 8492 3188 2210 



t 935-6 84,288 51,776 21,222 3925 9492 2702 2275 



1936-7 84,316 52,083 20,138 3176 9864 3149 2264 



1937-8 88,284 54,6i4 23,971 3096 7790 3926 2358 



1938-9 93,8o4 57,922 25,349 5485 7752 2786 2256 



1 Annual dues of members and entrance fees. 



- Subscriptions to Science and The Scientific Monthly for members. 



3 Salaries, postage, equipment, supplies, telephone, etc. 



4 Expense of circular letters inviting persons to become members of the Association. 



5 Total expense to the Association of the meetings for the respective years. 



6 Money received from registrants, one dollar each, at the meetings; available to apply against ex- 

 pense of meetings. 



7 The Pacific Division and the Southwestern Divisions are allowed one dollar per member each year 

 for office expenses. 



Meetings of the Association 

 With few exceptions the annual meetings of the Association from its 

 founding in 1848 to the year 1902 were held in August. Apparently one of 

 the reasons for the choice was that university and college men were on vaca- 

 tion at that time of the year. But after the opening of The University of 

 Chicago in 1893 summer sessions in universities rapidly became common 

 and the vacation consideration lost its importance. Moreover, the American 

 Society of Naturalists and a related group of scientific societies were holding 

 meetings in the Christmas holidays. On the recommendation of a com- 



