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which could be replaced in case of loss, upon 

 compliance with the simplest condu.ons 

 practicable. Thus subscribers who live at a 

 distance from libraries may obtain, through 

 the mails, the benefit of access to a valuable 

 entomological library, constantly increasing 

 by means of donations and the receipt of 

 publications in exchange for Psyche. 



A Permanent Publication Fund has been 

 established by the Club,. the income alone ot 

 which is used to assist in defraying the cost 

 of the publication of Psyche. As yet the 

 fund is too small to furnish the amount of 

 income needed. The Club does not hesitate 

 to ask the friends of entomology to contrib- 

 ute to this fund, believing that their favorite 

 science will be benefitted thereby. 



In default of a regular income sufficient to 

 defray the cost of the publication of Psyche, 

 j-eliance has had to be placed on the timely 

 assistance of special friends of the work. As 

 yet such friends have not been wanting, who 

 have assisted by donations or the advance- 

 ment of the money needed. 



In March 1884 a statement of the finan- 

 cial condition of the Club for the year 1883 

 was sent to a large number of subscribers to 

 Psyche, with a form of agreement for sub- 

 scription to a guarantee fund for the pay- 

 ment of the deficit on the cost of publishing 

 Psyche for 1883, as that deficit might stand 

 on I July 1884. Bills were at the same time 

 sent to all persons who were indebted to the 

 Club, with a special request for payment of 

 dues.' The following persons agreed to pay 

 the amounts set against their names, or so 

 much pro rata as might bo needed to meet 

 the deficit: — 



T: W. Uigginson, Cambridge. Mass. $5.00 



H. Osborn, Ames, Iowa ,v»' 



W : H. Patton, Waterbury, Conn. . .^-'X' 



F. G. Sanborn, Worcester, Mass. ■ ■ .i-oo 



S. A. Forbes. Normal, III i«-"" 



H : G. Hubbard, Crescent City, Fla. . lo.oo 



1? ; P. Mann, Washington. D. C. . • ^,vO" 



Mr. Sanborn having since died, but $60 

 were called for. 



The financial condition of the Club, lor 

 1SS3 stood as follows on i July 1SS4:— 



Expenses. 

 For printing Psyche, nos. 105-116 $3,^7-67 



" postage and Club expenses . ■ -7-"4 



$384.71 

 Receipts. 



From membership fees $5^.00 



'^ subscriptions to Psyche . • i67-77 

 - publication fund (1S80-1SS3) • 39 59 



$^.i9-36 

 Deficit $i.!.v3.i 

 Bills due 9.v-° 

 In contemplating this deficit it should be 

 borne in mind that Psyche is sent in ex- 

 change to more than eighty societies or pub- 

 lishers, whose works enrich the library of the 

 Club, and could be purchased only for a sum 

 far in excess of the pecuniary deficit. 



In the Annual reports of the Secretary. 

 etc., for 1882. presented 12 Jan. 1S83. and 

 published in pamphlet form, are acknowledg- 

 ments of donations to the Permanent Publi- 

 cation Fund, which, with other receipts, 

 amounted to a principal of $224.39- ^'"^■--' 

 then have been received from :— 

 E. M. .\aron, Pliiladelphia, Pa. . • $>oo 

 Laurence Curtis. Boston, Mass. . . . .v«) 



Louis Curtis. Boston. Mass S-C" 



I. G. Gooch. Cambridge, Mass. . . . i.oo 

 H : G. Hubbard. Crescent City. Fla. 2.00 



J : G. Jack, Chateauguay Basin. P.Q^ i-oo 



Otis Norcross, Boston. Mass 5-«' 



A. S. Packard, jr.. Providence, R. I. 10.00 



F. G. Sanborn. Worcester, Mass. . 5-oo 



L. M. Sargent, Boston, Mass .... 5-0" 

 W. F. Wharton, Boston, Mass. . . ■ 5-o" 

 Previously acknowledged .... --4-39 



$269.39 



1? : PicKMAN Mann. 



Treasurer C E. C 



|(3-.cx, Nos. 122-123 were issued 23 Aug. 1884. 



