THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 147 



INVESTMENT OF FUNDS 



For income, $71,655 51 



" Essex Institute Building, 28,370 69 



" Ship Rock au(l land, 100 OO 



Total investments, $100.1-2h 20 



Salem, May 12, 1892. 

 Examined the above account with the securities and found them correct. 



(signed) Gko. D. Phippen, Auditor. 



Report of Publication Committee. 

 The sub-committee appointed to take charge of the pub- 

 lications of the Institute report that these publications are 

 now substantially completed up to date. There was some 

 delay in the publication of volume twenty-three of the 

 Bulletin, owing to the necessit}' of reprinting a portion of 

 the paper by Mr. J. Walter Fewkes upon the "Coelenterata 

 of New England," but this volume, which is for the year 

 1891, has now been issued. It contains, besides the annual 

 report, the paper by Mr. Fewkes just mentioned, papers 

 by Messrs. S. and H. Garman, also numbers three and four 

 of the " Geological and Mineralogical Notes" by Mr. John 

 H. Sears of the Peabody Academy of Science. These 

 notes, containing the results of Mr. Sears's work on the 

 rocks of Essex County are especially valuable. There are 

 now in the hands of the committee, ready for the next vol- 

 ume — volume twenty-four — of the Bulletin, valuable 

 papers furnished by Prof. E. S. Morse, Mr. Fewkes, Mr. 

 Garman and others. Of the Historical Collections, volume 

 twenty-seven for the year 1890 has been published dur- 

 ing the past year and contains a paper on Gov. John A. 

 Andrew by Hon. Eben F. Stone, a continuation ©f Mr. 

 Sidney Perley's " Notes on Boxford Houses," " Reminis- 

 cences of Capt. James Barr" by Mr. J. B. Curwen, gen- 

 ealogical memoranda relating to the Allen, Sparhawk and 

 Prince families and a " Rough Subject Index to the Publi- 



