32 ANNUAL MEETING 



PERMANENT FUND. 



The Commissioners of the Permanent Fund, by Chas. 

 D. Marshall, Treasurer, reported that May 17, 1907 the prin- 

 cipal of the fund aggregated $24,827.50, of which all but 

 $2677.50 is invested in bonds and mortgages and that the 

 amount of interest moneys received during the year was 

 $1102.27 which has been turned over to the Treasurer of the 

 Society. 



ROOMS COMMITTEE. 



Mr. H. R. Howland, Chairman of the Rooms Committee 

 reported that during the year just ended a very careful in- 

 ventory had been made, begun by Mr. Chas. H. Ward of 

 Rochester who had been employed for the purpose and com- 

 pleted by our staff showing the number of specimens in the 

 Society's Collections and their value as follows: 







No of 





Section 



Specimens 



Value 



A 



Ornithology 



1610 



$ 4729.80 



B 



Conchology 



11481 



1906.38 



C 



Ethnology and Archaeology 



5502 



22457.85 



D 



Mineralogy 



1976 



3437.50 



E 



Geology and Paleontology 



5210 



7463.40 



F 



Mammals 



28 



9546.25 



G 



Ichthyology 



242 



540.50 



H 



Herpetology 



123 



454.00 



I 



Entomology 



5347 



1304.75 



Iv 



Botany 



24084 



6075.00 



L 



Economics Collections 



7240 



2690.55 



M 



Osteology 



110 



636.25 



N 



Miscellaneous 



99 



436.00 



Total Numbers 63052 Value. $61678.23 $61678.23 



Furniture, Cases, Portraits and Apparatus 7322.91 



ibrary, Bound volumes 



4620 



Value, 4 



fr 8372.00 



Unbound " 





300 





300.00 



Pamphlets 





1245 





124.00 



Maps 





22 





22.00 



Bulletins on 



hand 



5962 

 ....12149 



Est. Cost, 

 Value 4 



4000.00 



Total Number 



M.6951.50 



12951.50 



