THE RETROSPEOT OF THE YEAR. 



83 



KXPENDITUllES. 



Balance last year, overdrawn 



Paid on General Account 



Salaries, 



Publications, 



Fuel and Gas. 



Books, bindiag, pviiiting and stationeiy, 

 Repairs, expressage, postage and incidentals, . 



Premium fire iasurance, 



Salem Athenfeam, as per agreement, 



Saleia Athenceum, Services of Librarian, etc., . 



$117 52 



Paid Ditmore annuity, ..... 



Story annuity (ceased) 



"Manuscript" account funded, .... 



"Derby" account funded, 



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

 Paid expenses thereon, iasurance, coal and repairs, . 



Balance on hand, 



Amount of invested funds including real estate, 



,920 00 





937 43 





197 00 





639 30 





150 30 





61 25 





300 00 





79 12 



4,284 40 





110 00 





83 00 





28 04 





18 00 





14,000 00 





254 34 





18,895 30 





112 33 









i 



^19,007 63 



$48,890 63 



ExcuRsroN TO Niagara and Trenton Falls. — A 

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

 stitute, left Salem on Wednesday, June 10, 1885, by the 

 Hoosac Tunnel route and the West Shore Line for Niag- 

 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 Simday'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 

 haant for the botanist with its many attractive plants, and 



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