the retrospect of the year. 13 



Auditor's Keport. 



Salem, May 20, 1895. 

 The treasurer's accounts and books have been examined 

 from the last annual meeting to date. 



The receipts appear to be correctly entered and the 

 expenditures properly entered and vouched. 



The securities herein reported by the treasurer were 

 examined on May 18, 1895, and agree with the list sub- 

 mitted within. 



Respectfully submitted, 



H. M. Batch ELDER, 



Auditor. 



Library and Publication Committee Report. 



The Library and Publication Committee respectfully 

 presents its report for the year ending May 20, 1895. 



The condition of the library has undergone no consid- 

 erable change and is clearly indicated in the exhaustive re- 

 port of the Librarian. The library increases with a steady 

 and healthy growth, and so in an unmistakable degree 

 does the use of it, and the need of much additional shelf- 

 room is once more pressing upon us. 



The publications of the Institute have now been sus- 

 tained in a manner which is recognized as creditable, for 

 a series of years dating from 1856-7, when the Institute 

 moved into Plummer Hall, and when six volumes of Pro- 

 ceedings, covering the work of the society from its incep- 

 tion in 1848, were begun and published at intervals 

 through a dozen years. In 18(59 the Proceedings made 

 way for the Bulletin, now in its twenty-sixth volume, 

 which has, for a reason about to l)e disclosed, become 



