102 



Natural History and Horticulture. 



Horticultural Exhibitions, $90.43; Sundries, $5.89, . . . 96.32 



$2,{55.13 

 CREDITS. 

 General Account. 



Dividends Webster Bank 30.00 



Assessments, $1,278.00; Publications, $183.05, 1,761.05 



Life Membership, $30.00; Sundries, $134.63, 164.63 



Athenaeum, proportion of coal and janitor, 155.25 



Cash at beginning of year, 182.68 



Balance due Treasurer, 89.58 



Historical. 



Dividends Naumkeag Bank, 22.00 



Natural History and Horticulture. . 



Dividends P. S. & P. R. R., $20.00; Lowell Bleachery, $G4.00, . . 84.00 



Horticultural Exhibitions, . . ' 85.94 



Davis Fund. 



Coupons Burlington and Missouri R. R., . 210.00 



Coupons Dixon, Peoria and Hannibal R. R., 140.00 



$2,955.13 



The receipts and expenditures on account of the recent 

 courses of lectures and entertainments, and the Art Ex- 

 hibition in March, which were severally placed in charge 

 of the curators of the department of the Arts, are not 

 included in the above statement ; the supplementary 

 course not having been concluded. The same will be 

 carried to the next year's account. 



Mr. W. P. UPHAM read a new draft of the Constitu- 

 tion and By-laws, as prepared by the special Committee 

 appointed at the meeting held on the 16th of November 

 last. After discussion the further consideration was 

 deferred to the next quarterly meeting on the second 

 Wednesday of August. 



