elected, 7 of whom have, however, not jet paid their initiation fee, and are 

 not, in consequence, included in the above estimate. We have also 2 Life 

 and 143 Corresponding Members. 



FINANCES. 



We lost, fortunately, but about $15 by the failure of the National State 

 Bank of Missouri, with which our funds were deposited, and the Treasur- 

 er's Report shows that $547-45 have been collected and $680.61 paid out. 

 The bulk of this sum was for the publication of our Transactions, $100 of 

 it being, however, to the Archaeological Section for mound explorations in 

 Southeast Missouri. This leaves a balance of but $26.25 in the treasury, 

 and there are yet outstanding bills of the R. P. Studley Company, for pub- 

 lishing Transactions, to the amouni of about $400. 



We have so far paid for the publication of Vol. III. of our Transactions 

 without extraneous assistance, the funds being derived from the initiation 

 fees and annual dues. Our active membership is very limited, but there 

 is, fortunately, a large number who give us their support by the prompt 

 payment of their annual dues, and thus enable us to continue publishing. 

 The few on whom the labor of contributing to and preparing the Trans- 

 actions directly falls have been in the habit of also partly defraying the 

 expense of publishing their individual contributions. I sincerely hope 

 that the balance now due the publishers on Vol. III., just completed, will 

 at once be made up by volunteer subscriptions. 



TRANSACTIONS. 



Our credit, and our existence even, outside of St. Louis depend almost 

 entirely on our published Transactions and the intrinsic value .of their 

 contents. It gives me great pleasure, therefore, to be able to announce 

 that we have published No. 4 of Vol. III. during the year, and have thus 

 iust brought the volume to a close. Aside from minor communications, 

 we have published an elaborate paper by Prof. Seytlarth on the Theory of 

 the Moon's Motions; one on Mound Exploration by Mr. Croswell ; several 

 valuable Botanical papers by Dr. Geo. Engelmann, and several Entomo- 

 logical papers. 



ARCHAEOLOGY. 



The Archaeological Section has been active during the year. Field 

 work has been carried on in Southeast Missouri, Northern Arkansas, and 

 Illinois. Surveys have been made of several groups and photographs 

 obtained of the "Monks' Mound Group" in Illinois. Valuable additions 

 have been made to the collection, which consists now of 528 pieces of pot- 

 tery, 35 skulls, besides a large number of bones, one engraved shell, and 

 many stone implements. The first memoir on "Missouri Pottery," richly 

 illustrated with lithograph plates, will be ready for publication probably 

 early in the spring. Communications have been established and ex- 

 changes arranged with many of the archaeological societies as well as the 

 principal museums in this country and some in Europe. 

 A. A. A. s. 



In August next, the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 



