99 



Amount brought forward, $7,183 64 



Historical. 



Books, $41.50; Binding, $66 10750 



Natural History and Horticulture. 

 Binding, $50; Horticultural exhibitions, $295.47, 345 47 



$7,636 61 

 CREDITS. 



General Account. 



Dividends Webster Bank, $3500 



Assessments, $1,275; Publications, $447.22 1,72222 



Miscellaneous, $35.76; Life Memberships, $60 9576 



Ath.enaeum, proportion of coal, and janitor, 164 00 



Lectures and concerts, 4,594 74 



Cash at beginning of year, 202 42 



Historical. 

 Dividends Naumkeag Bank, . . . . 2000 



Natural History and Horticulture. 



Div. Port., Saco and Ports. R. R., $20; Lowell Bleachery, $72, .... 92 00 

 Horticultural Exhibitions, 330 47 



Davis Fund. 



Coupons Burlington and Missouri River R. R. Bonds, 140 00 



Coupons Dixon, Peoria and Hannibal R. R. Bonds, 240 00 



$7,636 61 



PUBLICATIONS. The BULLETIN has been continued in 

 monthly numbers, giving full reports of the doings of 

 the Institute and abstracts of the papers read at the meet- 

 ings ; this makes an annual volume of from one hundred 

 and seventy-five to two hundred pages. Vol. xii, Nos. 1 

 and 2 of the "Historical Collections" have been printed; 

 it is expected that Nos. 3 and 4, completing the volume, 

 will be issued during the present year, 1874. 



During the year two schools from one of the towns of 

 the county have visited the city for the purpose of ena- 

 bling the scholars to see the valuable and instructive col- 

 lections that our cabinets contain. This certainly carries 

 out one of the first objects of the society, the dissemi- 



