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The Annual Reports of the Treasurer, Librarian, and 

 the Curators, with the exception of those of Geology and 

 Ornithology, were read and accepted. 



The Treasurer reported a balance on hand of $159.65. 



Besides the large sums paid the former Treasurer and Collec- 

 tor, the expenses of the Cabinet and Journal have been several 

 hundred dollars larger than usual. Nevertheless, thanks to the 

 large surplus at the beginning of the year, the Society is free 

 from debt, and, with the proposed increase of the annual assess- 

 ment, may even hope to restore the Building Fund, which was 

 necessarily sacrificed to remove its indebtedness. The total num- 

 ber of resident paying members is about 200. 



The Librarian reported the addition of 540 volumes 

 and pamphlets during the past year, of which 360 were 

 by donation. 



The most valuable consists of the Entomological Library of 

 the late Dr. T. W. Harris, of about 300 volumes, purchased and 

 presented to the Society by J. P. Cushing, Esq., of AYatertown, 

 Mass. If the Library increase in the same proportion for another 

 year, there will be no place for the books in the present room. 

 About forty new subscribers have been obtained for the Journal ; 

 as this is the principal means of securing the Transactions of 

 other Societies, it is to be hoped that the subscription, which is 

 not burdensome, may be still further increased, until it become 

 general. 



The department of Ichthyology has been increased by 

 about 200 species, mostly new, and at least one half of 

 them undescribed. 



The principal accessions have been from the Bahamas, by Dr. 

 Bryant ; from Maui, Sandwich Islands, by Dr. C. F. Winslow ; 

 and authentic original specimens from Prof. Agassiz. 



Nearly 300 specimens have been added to the depart- 

 ment of Comparative Anatony. 



New cases and shelves have been added, and the collection 



