in account with CHARLES LANIER, Treasurer. 



ENDOWMENT. 



Disbursements. 



By Balance from 1896 $7,258 10 



Minerals 251 15 



Ornithology 81 52 



Bulletin 2,725 31 



Emmons' Second Alaskan Collection 5,668 10 



Mammals 566 13 



Kunz Jade Collection 600 00 



Anthropology 3,338 26 



Library 1,044 7§ 



Mammal Groups 406 10 



Appleton Sturgis — Pacific Islands Collection 3,854 38 



Skeletons 318 08 



General Expenses 607 37 



Lumholtz Expedition, Mexico 1,882 28 



Bird Groups 33 00 



Geology 568 71 



Postage 45 36 



Traveling Expenses 485 50 



Conchology 34 12 



Peruvian Expedition .... 4,223 53 



Stationery 128 75 



Edwards' Entomological Collection 600 00 



Entomology 648 57 



Spang Collection, Minerals 150 00 



Haines Collection, Shells 1,000 00 



Edward D. Cope Collection , 8,086 81 



Vertebrate Palaeontology 3,906 31 



Department of Public Instruction 9,580 40 



Economic Collection 97 So 



Invertebrate Zoology 105 90 



Ethnic Groups 158 23 



Niven Mexican Collection 500 00 



Mexican Expedition 2,474 5° 



Printing 11 75 



Transferred "to Maintenance Account to balance 



deficit Jan. 1, 1897 3, 406 23 



Transferred to Maintenance Account to balance 



deficit Dec. 31, 1897 1,510 01 



Surplus Cash on hand 3,192 06 $69,548 80 



$69,548 80 



CHARLES LANIER, Treasurer 



[E. & O. E.] 



New York, Dec. 31, i8q"j 



