Finances.
We regret that we cannot realize our hopes of last year, that we should be able to report at this time that the obligations of the Society have all been fully met. Our receipts
have met the expenses of the current year, but they have fallen off (owing chiefly to the sickness of our most efficient agent, which deprived us of his services for the larger part of the year) considerably from what they were last year, and we have been unable, therefore, to liquidate our old debt which has
lapped over from year to year.
The following summary will show our receipts and disbursements from October the 29th, 1878, to October 29th, 1879:
| Cash on hand as per last report | $138 70 |
| Received from membership fees, subscriptions and advertisements, | 4,995 88 |
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| Total funds | $5,134 58 |
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