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The number of Home Societies and authors and public Libraries to 

 which our Transactions are regularh' sent (and Canada is included in this 

 list) is 86; and we receive from nearly all of them such exchanges as they 

 have to return. 



Our foreign exchanges are conducted through the agency of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution as heretofore, without other expense to us than the cost 

 of freight and postage between Washington and St. Louis. This service 

 of that excellent Institution, thus rendered gratuitously to all the scientific 

 Societies in the United States, must be regarded as of immense value to 

 the whole country. 



Four names have been added to the list of Corresponding Members 

 during the year. 



I submit herewith my account of receipts and expenditures, showing a 



total of receipts $78 64 



' ' expenditures 75 76 



and a balance in hand of - $ 2 88 



Of the receipts, there has been received 



From the sale of Transactions » $13 89 



" last year's account 16 00 



* ' the Treasurer for expenses 10 00 



" " " " the Bust of Agassiz 3785 



" freight charges refunded < 90 



$78 64 

 The expenditures are almost entirely for freight and postage. ■ 



Yours respectfully, NATHANIEL HOLMES, 

 Corresponding Secretary. 



The Treasurer's Annual Report was next submitted to an audit- 

 ing committee consisting of N. Holmes and S. Pollack, and was 

 found correct. It showed that the sum of $350.16 remained in 

 the hands of the Treasurer at the commencement of the year 

 1874 ; $614.00 were collected during the year from various 

 sources, and of the total amount of $964.16 the sum of $508.00 

 was expended for different purposes, but especially towards print- 

 ing the Transactions of the Academy, which consumed $342.75 ; 

 the cash balance amounts to $456.16. 



Mr. J. R. Gage presented some interesting specimens taken 

 from a coal mine in Moniteau Co., and read a communication 

 thereon, which was referred to the Committee on Publication. 



Dr. Richardson presented a specimen of coagulated blood 

 albumen. 



Dr. Engelmann made the following report on the meteorology 

 of the year : 



