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Institute, in Plummer Hall, made a statement of tlieir do- 

 ings, containing an accurate account of the receipts and 

 expenditures for this purpose, — the same having been done 

 without recourse to the ordinary income of the Society : — 



Credits, 



By Subscription in 1857, from 74 indi- 

 viduals, 12,587.50 

 Net proceeds from Ladies' Fair, Sep- 

 tember, 1860, 2,043.62 

 Sundries, 12.00 



$4,643.12 



Debits. 



Cabinets, Kemoval, &c., 13,632.12 



Interest on Loans, 77.25 



To the Publication account, 303.75 



Deposit in Salem Savings Bank, 630.00 



t,643.12 



The sincere thanks of the Institute are due to those gen- 

 erous individuals who contributed the first named sum, and 

 also to the Ladies by whose untiring exertions, the second 

 amount has been placed at its disposal. The Hon. R. S. 

 Rogers, the Chairman of the committee, is entitled to our 

 gratitude for his assiduity and zeal in aid of this object. 



The following Officers were elected for the year ensuing :--' 



President — Asahel Huntington. 



Vice Presidents — Of Natural History, Samuel P. Fowler 

 of Dan vers ; of Horticulture^ James Upton ; of History, 

 Henry M. Brooks. 



Secretary and Treasurer — Henry Wheatland. 



Librarian — John H. Stone. 



Cabinet Keeper — ^Richard H. Wheatland. 



