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render it impossible for me to give the time necessary for 

 the performance of the important duties devolving upon 

 the Superintendent, I must respectfully request that some 

 other person be elected to the office which I have had for 

 so many years the honor of holding. 



F. W. PUTNAM, 



Supt. Mus. E. I. 



TREASURER'S REPORT. 



It will be perceived by the following exhibit that valu- 

 able additions have been made to the treasury during 

 the year. The legacy of the late Charles Davis of Bev- 

 erly, of five thousand dollars ($5,000) ; and donations from 

 friends of fourteen hundred and eighty-two dollars and 

 seventy-two cents ($1482.72), a nucleus of a publication 

 fund, have been received and invested under the direc- 

 tion of the Finance Committee ; the income arising there- 

 from to be appropriated in accordance with the request of 

 the donors. The receipts from the Ladies' Fair in No- 

 vember of sixteen hundred and sixty-four dollars and 

 eighty-one cents ($1664.81) were expended for a piano, 

 settees and other fixtures for the lecture and concert room. 



DEBITS. 



Athenaeum, for rent and Librarian, $350.00 



Salaries, 688.00; Gas, 49.21; Coal, 156.87, . U^U^i 894.08 



Sundries, 151.36; Social meetings and Excursions, 806.80 958.16 



Publications, 1800.00; furnishing Lecture Room, 1465.02, 3265.02 



Deposit in Savings Bank, 30.00; Loans, 1642.72, 1672.72 



Investment of Davis Legacy, 5000.11 



Concerts and Musical Library, 886.62 



Balance Account of last year, 160.23 



Historical. 



Binding, 134.62; Books, 35.00, 169.62 



Natural History. 



Binding, 100.00; Books, 11.10; Sundries, 16.70 127.80 



13,484.36 



