THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 83 



EXPENDITURES. 



Balance last year, overdrawn $117 52 

 Paid on General Account. 



Salaries . ... 1,920 00 



Publications, 937 43 



Fuel and Gas. .... 197 00 



Books, binding, printing and stationery 659 30 



Repairs, expressage, postage and incidentals, .... 150 30 



Premium fire insurance, 61 25 



Salem Athena-urn, as per agreement 300 00 



Salem Athenaeum, services of Librarian, etc., .... 79 12 4,284 40 



Paid Ditmore annuity, . . 110 00 



Story annuity (ceased) 83 00 



"Manuscript" account funded, 2804 



"Derby" account funded, 1800 



Paid for the Daland House, from the W. B. Howes fund, . . 14,000 00 



Paid expenses thereon, insurance, coal and repairs, ... 254 34 



18,895 30 

 Balance on hand, .... ... 112 33 



$19,007 63 

 Amount of invested funds including real estate, ... $48,89663 



EXCURSION TO NIAGARA AND TRENTON FALLS. A 

 party, consisting of members and friends of the Essex In- 

 stitute, left Salem on Wednesday, June 10, 18$5, by the 



Hoosac Tunnel route and the West Shore Line for Nia-- 



o 



ara Falls and spent two days in the examination of the 

 principal points of interest in that locality. Thence went 

 to Trenton and found a welcome retreat for Sunday's rest 

 in Moore's Hotel, a quiet, good, old-fashioned English 

 inn. 



A large garden fronts the hotel and the most delightful 

 of forests lies back of it, bordering the gorge for several 

 miles ; paths traverse it in various directions, affording 

 frequent glimpses of the stream and the falls. What a 

 haunt for the botanist with its many attractive plants, and 



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