Transcribe Bessey, Charles Edwin. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1874-09-22)

department has appropriations made for the running nexpenses for the year, -for the purchase of specimens &e- and when that fund is exhausted, no more can be obtained until the next annual meeting. Now then we are in just that predicament. Our Museum appropriation for the current year is so nearly exhaust ed. that we have barely enough to carry us through. I have wondered at times whether the money could not come from some other source but so far the prospects are to say the least not very flattering.

    Our Board of Trustees will not

meet until the end of the current year - that is, sometime in Novem -ber, so that in all probability it