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The foregoing report must, in the nature of things, bear a resena- 

 blance to former ones, as our receipts and expenditures run mainly in the 

 same channel, year by year, varying only in amounts as circumstances 

 vary. The three stores on Bromfield street have been vacated by the 

 expiration of leases, and were readily rented at a small advance on form- 

 er rates. Those on Tremont street are still occupied by the original 

 tenants, and all are deemed desirable property. The halls also still 

 maintain their high rank. 



It will be seen that the Society is holding steadily on its course of 

 prosperity financially, yet that is by uo means its most flattering ele- 

 ment. In the capacity of Superintendent, it has been gratifying to note 

 the fast growing interest in our work. N'ot only have our exhibitions 

 been better and better attended than ever before, but a greater desire to 

 improve the advantages offered by our library has been manifest, and 

 more than all beside, a perfect unity of purpose and action represent 

 the foundation and motive power of our strength. 



In this connection, I would make a personal appeal to each individual 

 member, to profit by the terms of membership, and I repeat what I have 

 so constantly urged, an earnest invitation to all, to frequent the rooms 

 which are always open, and to use the Library which is fast increasing 

 in value and usefulness. 



The Finance Committee have withheld no attention requisite to the 

 best ordering of our affairs, and to them we should accord our measure 

 of success. To all who have so generously forborne with my short- 

 coming during a year of trying illness, I acknowledge obligations which 

 I can never hope to discharge. May God prosper you in the future, 

 even more than in the past. 



E. W. BUSWELL, Treasurer.- 



Boston, January 7, 1871. 



