SYNOPSIS OF PROCEEDINGS. 273 



Bequest of J. Monroe Parker i ,000.00 



Putnam Memorial Fund for endowment of publication, estab- 

 lished by Mrs. Mary L. D. Putnam with funds bequeathed by 

 Mrs. Mary Putnam Bull 9,500.00 



§12,700.00 

 RECAPITULATION. 



Receipts General Fund §915.67 



Publication account 772.58 



Grand total receipts $1,688.25 



Expended General Account §901.81 



Publication account 760.80 



Grand total expenditures §1,662.61 



Balance on hand, General Account § 13.86 



Publication Account 11.78 § 25.64 



§1,688.25 

 Respectfully submitted, 

 January i, 1898. Mary L. D. Putnam, Treasurer. 



The Treasurer's report was ordered referred to the Auditing Com- 

 mittee. 



For the year 1897 correspondence was as follows : Letters received, 

 184; letters and acknowledgments made, 241. 

 Very respectfully, 



W. H. Barkis, Corresponding; Secretary. 



REPORT OF recording SECRETARY. 



During the year 1897 there have been twelve regular meetings of 

 the Academy. The average attendance has been six. 



Seven regular, one life, and three corresponding members have been 

 added during the year. 



Two members have died : Hon. John C. Bills and Mrs. Nettie F. 

 Howard. 



Lectures have been delivered by C. A. Ficke on "A Trip Up the 

 Nile;" by Charles Francis on "Egyptian Hieroglyphics," and by 

 George R. Putnam on " The Seal Islands and Alaska." 



E. M. White, Recording Secretary. 



librarian's report. 



Your Librarian would report for the year just closed a very satisfac- 

 tory condition of the Library. At the beginning of the year the 

 Trustees made a small appropriation for binding, a work greatly 

 needed for the preservation of very many valuable books ; but owing 

 to a pressure of funds necessary in other directions the money was not 

 called for. The only expense incurred was about twenty-five dollars 

 expended in classifying and arranging the Library, a work made 

 necessary after the new shelving was put in last year. Much credit 



