Annual Report.] 12 



The Treasurer presented the following report. 





[Mayi 



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

 Society, for the year ending April 30th, 1874. 



Receipts. 







Dividends and Interest 





$6,944.39 



Courtis Fund Income 





709.91 



Pratt Fund Income. 





850.00 



ii. F. Wolcott Fund income 





464.00 



Walker Fund Income 





2,466.30 



" Prize Fund Income . ... 





240.00 



" Grand Prize Fund Income .... 





* 94.00 



" " " " Sale of Stock . 





728.00 



Entomological Fund Income 



Bulfinch Street Estate Fund Income .... 





75.00 





2,124.00 



Admission Fees 





100.00 



Annual Assessments . . . 





1,385.00 



Lowell Institute Subsidy for Lectiirei .... 





138.76 



Donations 





580.00 



Total 



$16,899.36 



Expenditures. 







Museum and Furniture 



83,423.81 





Repairs of Museum 



Cabinet 



864.02 





1,332.28 





Cleveland Collection of Fossils .... 



300.00 





Library 



527.76 





Abbot's Drawings of Lepidoptera 



500.00 





Memoirs and Publications .... $1,696.28 







Less receipts 562.87 











1,133.41 





Lectures 



141.11 





Gas 



209.25 





Fuel 



614.75 





Insurance 



1,754.22 





Salaries 



5,760.66 





A. S. Packard, Jr., Walker Prize 



60.00 





A. Agassiz, Walker Grand Prize 



1,000.00 





General Expenses 



1,152.21 



$18,773.48 



Excess of Expenditures over Receipts 





#1,874.12 



Boston, May l t 187 1^. 



E. Pickering, Treasurer, 

 Boston Society of Natural History. 



The Society then proceeded to the election of officers for 

 the ensuing year. 



Messrs. Mann and Brewer were requested to collect and 

 count the ballots, and they announced that forty-four ballots 

 had been cast, all for the nominees of the Nominating Com- 

 mittee reported at the previous meeting. The following 

 gentlemen were therefore declared officers for 1874-75. 



