708 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
it also receives the income of $10,000 trust funds, for which it 
is obliged to give yearly in a neighboring town a course of Six 
lectures on natural history, “at its own expense, by competent 
and able and well-known scientists.” Other sources of revenue 
are the yearly fees and assessments of members, the renting of 
land owned by the society, and a “ three-year fund ” subscribed 
to by a few men who are willing to help the good work. 
The society hopes in the future to work along the line laid 
down by Louis Agassiz for its collection, and to foster still 
more the use of its material in useful and educational ways, and 
for recreation, It only needs money to extend its influence. 
