Treasurer's Report.] 



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[May 5, 



eluding all the common species in the neighborhood of 

 Boston. During the last year a collection of dried spiders 

 for exhibition was begun by Mr. Emerton, and now contains 

 specimens of thirty-eight of the larger species. Eighty micro- 

 scopic specimens of palpal organs and other parts of spiders, 

 described by Hentz, have been prepared. 



The foreign spiders are all in the exhibition case in the 

 northeast room, none of them named. The Scorpions and 

 Phrynidae are in the same case. The number of specimens is 

 large, but of few species, and none are named. 



The Treasurer presented the following report. 



Report of E. Pickering, Treasurer, on the Financial Affairs of the 

 Society, for the year ending April 30th, 1875. 



Receipts. 







Dividends, Interest and Rents 





$4,988.31 



Courtis Fund Income 





692.00 



Pratt Fund Income 





840.00 



H. F. Wolcott Fund Income 





464.00 



Walker Fund Income 





2,788.40 



" Prize Fund Income 





278.00 



" Grand Prize Fund Income .... 





60.00 



Entomological Fund Income 





30.00 



Bulhnch Street Estate Fund Income .... 





2,122.00 



Annual Assessments 





1,290.00 



Admission Fees 





170.00 



Donation, R. C. Greenleaf 





50.00 



" J. Cummings 





250.00 



Lowell Institute Subsidy for Lectures .... 





1,103.53 



Publications 





534.07 



Total 



$15,660.31 



Ordinary Expenditures. 







Publications 



S2.853.81 





Repairs of Museum . . . . . 



533.01 





Cabinet 



1,808.50 





Library . . 



623.78 





F"uel 



399.00 





Gas .... 



132.75 





Lectures 



1,353.53 





Salaries 



6,296.67 





General Expenses 



1,410.45 



$15,411.50 



Excess of Receipts 





$248.81 







Extraordinary Expenditures. 





Museum and Furniture, additions and improvements 





$10,689.01 



Wyman Collection 





5,000.00 





$15,689.01 



Boston, May 1, 1875. 



E. Pickering, Treasurer, 

 Boston Society of Natural History. 



