99 



Amount brought forward, $7,183 C4 



Historical. 



Books, $41.50; Binding. $GG, 107 50 



Natural ffistory and Horticulture. 



Binding, $50; Horticultural exhibitions, $295.47, 345 47 



$7,036 Gl 

 CREDITS. 



General Account. 



Dividends Webster Bank $35 00 



Assessments, $1,275; Publications^ $447.22, 1,722 22 



Miscellaneous, $35.70; Life Memberships, $60, 95 76 



Athena:um, proportion of coal, and janitor, 1G4 CO 



Lectures and concerts, 4,594 74 



Cash at beginning of year, 202 43 



Historical. 

 Dividends Naumkeag Bank, 20 00 



Natural History and Horticulture. 



Div. Port., Saco and Ports. R.K., $20; Lowell Bleachery, $72, .... 9200 

 Horticultural Exhibitions, 330 47 



Davis Fund. 



Coupons Burlington and Missouri River R. R. Bonds, 140 00 



Coupons Dixon, Peoria and Hannibal R. R. Bonds, 240 00 



$7,630 61 



Publications. — The Bulletin has been continued in 

 monthly numbers, giving full reports of the doings of 

 the Institute and abstracts of the papers read at the meet- 

 ings ; this makes an annual volume of from one hundred 

 and seventy-five to two hundred pnges. Vol. xii, Nos. 1 

 and 2 of the "Historical Collections" have been printed; 

 it is expected that Nos. 3 and 4, completing the volume, 

 will be issued during the present year, 1874. 



During the year two schools from one of the townsr of 

 the county have visited the city for the purpose of ena- 

 bling the scholars to see the valuable and instructive col- 

 lections that our cabinets contain. This certainly carries 

 out one of the first objects of the society, the dissemi- 



