278 



STATE rOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 



Daring the year I have sent away, at the request of other institutions and 

 societies, and as exchanges, 9 volumes of 1871; 22 volumes of 1872; 18 vol- 

 umes of 1813 ; 32 volumes of 1874; 121 volumes of 1875. This leaves in the 

 possession of tlie Society 455 volumes of reports prior to 187G. The receipts 

 and disbursements, together with the volumes on hand, can be seen at a glance 



in the following table : 



Receipts 



Disbursements 



Balance on hand 



1375. 



342 

 121 



221 



liOOM IX TJIE NEW CAPITOL. 



In this connection it may be well to indicate the progress made in acquiring 

 some place of depository for tlicse volumes and other property in tlie liunds of 

 the Society. Some time during last year a committee was appointed to take 

 measure?, if possible, toward securing a room in the new capitol. This com- 

 mittee was continued by resolution at our meeting in Pontiac lasfc February, and 

 President Lyon, who is a member of that committee, was requested to present 

 a memorial to the Legislature, asking tliat a position be given our Society in 

 the new capitol. Subsequently it was decided that it should be sent to the Gov- 

 ernor as one of the building commissioners, and in accordance with this 

 decision the following memorial was prepared and forwarded by our President : 



President's Office. } 

 South Haven, March S, 2S77. S 



To His Excellencii Charles M. Crosavell, Governor of the Stale of Michigan : 



Sir, — The undersigned, on behalf of the Michigan State Poinological Society, would 

 respectfully represent, that from the time of its organization this Society has felt 

 itself embarrassed and limited in many of its operations from the lack of a place in 

 whicli it can be recognized as having a local existence, — where its records can be 

 kept, and where it may hold its oflicial sessions, with perhaps occasional general 

 meetings; also where it may be able to accunudate material for a library, and per- 

 haps for a museum or collection of such botanical, horticultural, entomological or 

 other scientific specimens as sliall be found useful and valuable for the elucidation of 

 the subjects that shall come within the scope of its operations. The Society is the 

 more desirous to snpplj' this lack, from the conviction that in carrying into effect the 

 purposes herein suggested the general ellicicncy of its opcratit)ns would be greatly 

 increased, while at tlie same time stronger guaranties of the permanency of its organ- 

 ization would be allbrded. 



Under the influence of these considerations, the Society lias instructed me to address 

 to your Excellency, as chairman of the Board in charge of State buildings, a request 

 tliat upon the completion of the new capitol a room or rooms therein be assigned for 

 its occupancj', eithir alone or jointly witli the State Agricultural Society (as sball be 

 found most expedient or convenieut) for the juirposes iudicated. 



Under the eonviction that tlie operations of the Society during its comjiaratively 

 .short existence have not been without beneficial influences upon the general interests 

 of the State, and with grateful recollections of its fostering care over the interests of 

 the Society, we trust tliat the request lierein made may be adjudged to be a reasona- 

 ble oup. iiiid that it may receive your earnest and favorable consideration. And your 

 memorialists will ever pray. 



T. T. LYOX, 

 President Michigan State Pvmological Society. 



