Officers' Reports, 
REPORT OF SECRETARY. 
If the members of this Society will 
come with me I will conduct them 
through the streets of Jacksonville to 
the ruins of a certain house. In the 
middle there is a little heap of yellow 
ashes, and in places you can still trace 
the outlines of books and decipher some 
letters. Take up a handful of them and 
they have a very soft and velvety feeling. 
There is a large amount of good brain 
matter in those ashes, but our enterprise 
ing fellow members who manufacture 
fertilizers would not pay twenty-five 
cents a hundred for them for use in their 
goods. That little heap of yellow ashes 
is all that remains of the voluminous 
records and reports of this Society. 
I happened to have a few copies of the 
reports in my office. Mr. W. S. Hart, 
Mr. E. S. Hubbard and Dr. J. M. Hawks 
have kindly supplied some missing num¬ 
bers, and with a little further assistance 
I can reconstruct the file. 
On behalf of the Society, I wish to 
return thanks to several gentlemen for 
their zeal in securing new members by a 
personal canvass. Prominent among 
these are Messrs. F. D. Waite, James 
Henry, E. S. Hubbard, E. V. Blackman 
and Rev. Lyman Phelps. Several years 
ago the Executive Committee author¬ 
ized the Secretary to appoint such depu¬ 
ties to conduct personal canvasses, and 
experience has certainly demonstrated 
the value of the practice. 
Up to date I have received 280 fees 
from annual members, and our list of life 
members has been increased this year 
by nine recruits, making 240 annuals, 
49 life members, and 2 honorary. 
RECEIPTS FOR THE YEAR. 
Back numbers sold.$ 86 25 
Membership fees. 280 00 
Life members. 90 00 
Donation by Amos Wakelin ... 2 00 
Total receipts.$458 25 
EXPENSES. 
Postage and stationery.$ 24 00 
Printing. 28 60 
Addressing envelopes. 1 00 
Telegrams. 1 25 
210 badges. 10 00 
Drayage and freight. 1 00 
Total expenses.$ 65 85 
Balance paid on Secretary’s sal¬ 
ary .$44 25 
Retained for immediate use... . 18 15 
$128 25 
Turned over to Treasurer Hart $330 00 
Stephen Powers, 
Secretary. 
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