Walt Whitman: his Life and Work, with illustrations. By Bliss Perry. Second edition, revised.

Forty-first Report on the Peabody Museum of American Archæology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1906-07. By Frederic W. Putnam.

Dartmouth College: its founders and hinderers. By F. B. Sanborn.

Annals of the Brookline Whist Club, 1873-1907. By an old Member, Edward Stanwood.

The American Constitution. By Frederic J. Stimson.

Annual List of New and Important Books added to the Public Library of the City of Boston, selected from the Monthly Bulletins, 1906-1907. Edited by Lindsay Swift.

The Log of the "Laura" in Polar seas. A hunting cruise from Tromsö, Norway, to Spitsbergen, the polar ice off East Greenland on the Island of Jan Mayen in the summer of 1906. Kept by Bettie Fleischmann Holmes. Edited by Lindsay Swift. Monthly Bulletins of

of Boston, 1906-1907. The France of Today.

Books added to the Public Library of the City
Edited by Lindsay Swift.

By Barrett Wendell.

Liberty, Union, and Democracy. The National Ideals of America.

By Barrett Wendell.

Respectfully submitted,

SAMUEL S. SHAW,

Chairman of Committee.

The report of the Treasurer, with the report of the Auditing Committee, was presented in print, as follows:

REPORT OF THE TREASURER.

In compliance with the requirements of the By-Laws, Chapter VII., Article 1, the Treasurer respectfully submits his Annual Report, made up to March 31, 1908.

The special funds held by him are twenty-four in number, and a full account of those funds showing the date of the gift or bequest, its provisions and objects, appears in the Treasurer's report for the year ending March 30, 1907.1 In addition to the funds there enumerated are two special investments as follows:

1. A deposit book in the Five Cent Savings Bank for $100, and interest, which now amounts to $200.63, which is applicable

1 See ante, 6-26.

to the care and preservation of the model of the Brattle Street Church, deposited with the Society in April, 1877. It is obvious that the interest from this gift is more than sufficient for such purpose. The Treasurer suggests that the unexpended balance of the income, after providing for the care and preservation of the model, be applied to the general purposes of the Society.

2. The second special deposit was received from our associate member Mr. Thomas Minns, and was a gift of the deposit book issued by the Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston to Miss Maria Antoinette Parker, February 1, 1821. In October, 1906, Mr. Minns paid to the Treasurer the sum of $800, to be added to the deposit, and on March 27, 1908, Mr. Minns paid to the Treasurer the further sum of $124.29, making the total amount of the fund so deposited the sum of $1,000. The interest on this gift is to be used for the purchase of books for the Library.

In accordance with the suggestion of my predecessor in his last report these two investments, which formerly were not included in the General Fund, and did not appear in the trial balance, as they form part of the Society's assets, are now included as Special Funds, and the interest received therefrom being applicable to the specially designated purposes is not included in the consolidated income. These two funds now appear in the Treasurer's report as Special Investments.

In addition to the gifts and bequests represented by these funds a detailed account of the numerous gifts which have been made to the Society from time to time, and expended in the purchase of real estate or in promoting the objects for which the Society was organized, was included in the Annual Report of the Treasurer dated March 31, 1887, and printed in the Proceedings (second series, III. 293–296). The Treasurer does not include the detailed statements of these gifts in his report of this year, believing that the reference to the volumes of the Proceedings in which the information respecting them is set forth in full will be sufficient for the purposes of the Society.

During the past year the Treasurer has received from the executors of the will of the late Hon. Stephen Salisbury (H. U. 1856), of Worcester, a former member of this Society, the sum of $5,000, the income of which is applicable to the general

purposes of the Society, and the principal will appear in the Treasurer's account under the designation of the "Salisbury Fund."

The stocks and bonds held by the Treasurer as investments on account of the above-mentioned funds are as follows:

$14,000 in the five per cent mortgage bonds of the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad Co., due 1921;

$1,000 in a five per cent bond of the Chicago and North Michigan Railroad Co., due 1931;

$5,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Rio Grande Western Railroad Co., due 1939;

$8,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Co., due 1921;

$2,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Co., due 1922;

$4,000 in the three and one-half per cent bonds of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Co., due 1949;

$5,000 in the five per cent gold bonds of the Cincinnati, Dayton, and Ironton Railroad Co., due 1941;

$14,500 in the four per cent mortgage bonds of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad Co., due 1995;

$9,000 in the adjustment four per cent bonds of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad Co., due 1995; $3,000 in the convertible four per cent bonds of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad Co., due 1995;

$13,000 in the five per cent collateral trust bonds of the Chicago Junction Railways and Union Stock Yards Co., due 1915;

$10,000 in the five per cent bonds of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Co., due 1946;

$10,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Co., due 1929;

$12,000 in the five per cent bonds of the Lewiston-Concord Bridge Co., due 1924;

$6,000 in the four and one-half per cent bonds of the Boston and Maine Railroad Co., due 1944;

$10,000 in the four per cent bonds of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., due 1929;

$54,000 in the four per cent joint bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. and the Great Northern Railroad Co., due 1921;

$12,000 in the convertible five per cent bonds of the Kansas City Stock Yards Co., due 1913;

$6,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Long Island Railroad Co., due 1949;

$12,000 in the four per cent bonds of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Co., due 1934;

$10,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Co., due 1951;

$22,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Co. in Nebraska, due 1910;

$2,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western Railroad Co., due 1946;

$9,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Fitchburg Railroad Co., due 1927;

$3,000 in the five per cent bonds of the Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield Railroad Co., due 1925;

$2,000 in the five per cent bonds of the Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill Street Railway Co., due 1923;

$6,000 in the four per cent bonds of the West End Street Railway Co., due 1915;

$25,000 in the six per cent mortgage notes of G. St. L. Abbott, Trustee ;

$3,500 in the mortgage note of A. & C. F. Ammand, guaranteed by Charles F. Adams;

$2,000 in five per cent note of Michigan Central Railroad, due 1910;

$3,000 in five per cent note of American Telephone and Telegraph Co., due 1910;

$5,000 in five per cent note of Pennsylvania Railroad, due 1910; $12,000 in six per cent interim certificates of Washington Water Power Co., due 1911;

Fifty shares in the Merchants' National Bank of Boston;

Fifty shares in the State National Bank of Boston;

Fifty shares in the National Bank of Commerce of Boston;

Fifty shares in the National Union Bank of Boston;

Fifty shares in the Second National Bank of Boston;

Twenty-five shares in the National Shawmut Bank of Boston;
Thirty-five shares in the Boston and Albany Railroad Co.;
Twenty-five shares in the Old Colony Railroad Co.;

Twenty-five shares in the preferred stock of the Fitchburg Railroad Co.;

One hundred and fifty shares in the preferred stock of the Chicago Junction Railways and Union Stock Yards Co.;

Two hundred and fifty shares in the preferred stock of the American Smelting and Refining Co. ;

One hundred and fifty-eight shares of the preferred stock of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad Co.;

Three hundred and two shares in the Kansas City Stock Yards Co.;

Ten shares in the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co., received in exchange for five shares in the Cincinnati Gas-Light and Coke Co.;

Six shares in the Boston Real Estate Trust (of the par value of $1,000); Five shares in the State Street Exchange; and

Three shares in the Pacific Mills (of the par value of $1,000).

The net cost of these securities is $448,360.27; but their market value is much higher.

SPECIAL INVESTMENTS.

Maria Antoinette Parker Fund of $1,000 in the Provident Institution for Savings;

Brattle Street Church Fund of $100 and interest, $100.63, making a total of $200.63, in the Five Cent Savings Bank.

The trial balance follows and shows the present condition of the several accounts: