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The Board tenders its congratulations to the Association on the broader 

 interest shown in its work and activities by the members in general, 

 as evidenced in the increased attendance at the monthly meetings, in the 

 larger number who have contributed specimens, notes, and more lengthy 

 communications, and in the greater diversity of subjects included in both 

 the informal programs and those arranged by the several sections. 



The Association is also to be congratulated on its improved financial 

 condition and on the practical certainty that during the coming year the 

 debt necessarily incurred during the period of transition into a public in- 

 stitution will be entirely wiped out. 



Respectfully submitted for the Board, 



Arthur Hollick, 

 Secretary. 



Annual Report of the Executive Committee 



The executive committee held four meetings and transacted all emer- 

 gency and other ad interim business between the meetings of the Board. 

 The several items of business transacted were recorded in the minutes 

 of the committee and were subsequently reported to and approved by the 

 Board. 



Arthur Hollick, 

 Secretary. 



Annual Report of the Auditing Committee 



The committee examined the books and accounts and audited the annual 

 and quarterly reports of the treasurer, dated respectively May 15, 1909, 

 October 9, 1909, January 8, 1910, and April 2, 1910, to each of which we 

 have attached our certifitace of audit. 



In this connection we wish to oflfer a suggestion to govern the future 

 audits, viz., that these should be made once a year and should cover the 

 transactions embraced in the treasurer's annual report of that year, the 

 audit (if possible) to be made before the same is presented to the Asso- 

 ciation at its annual meeting. 



The present plan of auditing each quarterly statement is rather difficult 

 for the auditors to arrange, and adds unnecessarily, we think, to the 

 already considerable labors of the treasurer, to whose painstaking care 

 and faithfulness to the Association's interests we are pleased to testify. 



T. Livingstone Kennedy, Chairman, 

 Winfield R. Koller. 



Annual Report of the Publication Committee 



The Museum Bulletin, edited by the Curator-in-chief, has been issued 

 each month, including Xo. ix, June 1909-N0. 22, May 1910. 



