137 



Natural History and Hokticultuee. 



Debits. 



Preservatives and Specimens, etc., $136.83 



Lectures, $144.00; Social Meeting, $218.48, . . . 362.48 



'•31 

 Credits. 

 Lectures, $155.50 ; Social Meeting, Dec. 3, $239.75, . , $395.25 

 Dividends Lowell Bleachery, $60.00; P. S. P. E. R., $12.00, 72.00 



Sundries, 23.00 



General account, 9.06 



).31 



Historical Account. 



Debits. 



Binding, $150.00 



Credits. 



Dividend Naumkeag Bank, $20.00 



Coupons Michigan Central E. E. Bond, 38.00 



General account, 92.00 



$150.00 

 The Librarian reported that the additions to the Library have been 

 as follows : — 



Folios 7 ; Quartos 33, 40 



Octavos 725; Duodecimos, etc., 657, 1,382 



Pamphlets and Serials, 2,622 



Volumes of Newspapers, Folios, 42 



4,086 



The above have been obtained, with few exceptions, by exchange 

 with editors and kindred institutions, and by donations from members 

 and friends of the Institution. 



The largest donation was from Mrs. Fidelia W. Archer, consist- 

 ing of 663 pamphlets, 266 serials, and 446 bound volumes, being a part 

 of the library of our late esteemed associate, Eev. S. M. Worcester, 

 D. D., of Salem, a valuable addition, and enabling us to complete sev- 

 eral of the sei'ial publications in the Library. 



Dr. Benjamin Pickman, of Boston, and Augustus Perry, of Sa- 

 lem, have made valuable contributions. 



The contributors may be classed as follows : — 

 General Government and its Departments, State and Municipal 



Governments, and Societies, 50 



Editors, 12 



Individuals, 147 



209 

 PROCEEDINGS ESSEX INST., VOL. V. 18 DEC, 1867. 



