186 TRANSACTIONS OF THB [FEB. 22^ 



PRESENT ASSETS OF THE ACADEMY. 



Cash in Bank, as above, $394.89' 



Investments in Bond and Mortgage at 5 per cent. 



Acconnt Permanent Fund, $8,402.15 



" Publication Fund, 1,800.00 



" Audubon Fund, 1,797.25 $12,000.00 



Annual Dues in Arrears, 1895, 50.00 



Annual Dues in Arrears, 1896, 200.00 250.00 



$12,644.89' 

 As against amount at last report, 11,687.56 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. F. Cox, 



Treasurer. 



At the conclusion of the Treasurer's Report it was moved 

 and carried that it be referred to the Finance Committee for 

 audit according to the usual custom. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented a formal report which 

 merely concerned the routine work of the office during the3'ear. 

 The Librarian presented the following report : 



New York Academy or Sciences. Report of Librarian, 



1896-97. 



All publications received were stamped with the Academy 

 stamp and date of receipt, and were then turned over to the 

 Columbia University library for recording and shelving, under 

 the agreement made with the University. 



There have been received 59 domestic and 27 foreign requests 

 for back numbers of the Academy's publications or for informa- 

 tion in regard to them. 



In response there have been f:ent out 26 domestic and 23 for- 

 eign packages. The domestic packages were sent part by mail 

 and part by express, according to size. The foreign express 

 packages were sent through the Smithsonian Bureau of Inter- 

 national Exchanges. 



One hundred and sixty communications have been answered^ 



