Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Volume 62 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Summary The Society now has 757 members. Of this number 260 are life and 497 are annual members. On September 30, 1913, the total membership was 725, divided into 255 life and 470 annual members. During the year death has claimed eleven members of the Society, including its superintendent, Dr. Reuben Gold Thwaites. The private funds of the Society now total $85,970.57, a gain during the year of $12,332.39. Of this sum $3,352.94 represents the unexpended portion of the income of the private funds for the preceding year. The remainder represents the portion of the bequest of Mrs. Kittie E. V. Hollister, which had been paid in at the time of making the treasurer's annual report, amounting to $8,979.45. During the year 10,934 titles have been added to the Library; 5,084 of these are books, 5,588 are pamphlets, and 262 are maps and engravings. The Library now contains 375,321 titles, of which 184,834 are books, and 190,487 are pamphlets. During the year the new northwest wing of the building, under construction for several years, has been completed and occupied. In connection therewith the Library has undergone a somewhat extensive rearrangement. The changes made are described with some detail in the following sections of the report. Financial Statement, for Year Ending June 30, 1914 State Appropriations During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, the Society received $70,948 from the State in direct standing appropriations made under section 172.28 of the statutes. Of this sum, $54,353 was granted for administrative and operating expenses, under subsection 1; $8,195 under subsection 2, for insurance for the biennium ending June 30, 1913; $200 under subsection 3, for property repairs; and $8,200 under subsection 4, for books, furniture, and permanent accessions. The fol...