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From the editors of the "American Naturalist" one 

 hundred and thirty-seven serial publications. 



FINANCIAL. The Treasurer's Report shows an increase 

 in the annual income, yet additional means are requisite 

 to enable the Institute to perform in a fitting manner the 

 various duties which the community may reasonably ex- 

 pect. 



DEBITS. 



Athenaeum for rent and Librarian, $350.00 



Salaries, $876.88; Coal, $140.00, 1016.88 



Postage and Express, $45.47; Sundries, $19.20, 94.67 



Lectures (Holies), $1251.66; Collecting, $5.75 1257.41 



Gas, $32.40; Goldthwaite and Day, $118.84, 151.24 



Insurance, $40.00; Publications, $2200.00, 2240.00 



To balance, 202.42 



Historical. 



G. Southward, $10.00; J.Perley, $86; Books, $7.00, 103.00 



Natural History and Horticulture. 

 J.Perley, $25.00; C. A. Walker, $3.50, 28.50 



.$5,444.12 

 CREDITS. 



Dividends Webster Bank, 40.00; Lectures, 1214.57, $1254.57 



Notes and iuterest, 1586.51 



Sundries, 87.38 



Athenaeum, proportion of coal, janitor, etc., 145.00 



Assessments, $1,200; Publications. $617.18, 1817.18 



Balance of last year, 2 -* 8 



Historical. 



Dividends Naumkeag Bank. $24.00; Michigan Central R. R., $47, . . . 71.00 

 Natural History and Horticulture. 



Dividends Lowell Bleachery, $80.00; P. S. & P. R. R., $20, 100.00 



Davis Fund. 



Coupons Dixon, Peoria and Hannibal R. R. Bonds, 240.00 



Coupons Burlington and Missouri River R. R. Bonds, 140.00 



$5,444.12 



PUBLICATIONS. The BULLETIN has been continued in 

 monthly numbers, giving full reports of the doings of 

 the Institute and abstracts of papers read at the meetings ; 



