NEW MANAGERS.

Gerard Beekman, George Foster Peabody, Robert B. Parsons, and Daniel J. Holden, Esqs., have been elected Managers of the Society since the last Annual Meeting, and have entered upon their official duties.

LIFE DIRECTORS AND LIFE MEMBERS.

During the year eight persons were constituted Life Directors, by the usual payment of one hundred and fifty dollars each; and three hundred and sixty-five were constituted Life Members, by the payment of thirty dollars each.

NEW AUXILIARIES.

Only seven Bible societies have been recognized and enrolled as auxiliaries the past year, as follows:

The Managers are gratified to find that the amount received from rentals of rooms in the Bible House, is now more than $11,000 in excess of the amount received from the same source before the building was enlarged, as proof is thus furnished that the large expenditure incurred in the work has been justified by the results.

By the payment of $10,000 the mortgage debt upon the building has been reduced to $90,000.

RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS.

The report of the Treasurer, as found upon subsequent pages, shows that the total cash receipts for general purposes, for the year ending March 31st, 1892, were $556,527 29. In addition to this, the sum of $5,165 00 in cash was received for permanent investment. The total cash disbursements for general purposes were $563,588 31, the same being $7,061 02 in excess of the receipts.

An analysis of the receipts shows that the aggregate amount received for books and on purchase account was $274,582 71, which includes the following items:

The gifts from the living amount in the aggregate to $81,300 34, made up as follows:

The aggregate amount received from legacies was $127,932 60.

The amount received from interest on investments was $22,874, which includes the following items:

Income from permanent investments

$17,114 89

The amount received from rents was
Received from various miscellaneous sources

$44,798 48

5,039 16

INVESTED FUNDS.

The Society holds in trust invested funds, only the income of which is at the disposal of the Board of Managers, for general benevolent purposes. On the 31st of March, 1892, the aggregate amount of these funds was $383,961 56. This sum includes $5,000 recently given to the Society by Mr. Solomon L. Gillet, in bonds, which by the direction of the donor, must be retained in their present form until their maturity. The income from the permanent funds for the past year was $17,114 89.

The Society also holds in trust a fund known as the Jonathan Burr Fund, amounting to $31,576 14, the income of which can be used only to supply the Scriptures in raised letter for the Blind. This income for the past year amounted to $1,418 72.

The income of the Fitch Shepard Bible Fund, amounting to $2,054 29, has, in obedience to the terms of the gift, been added to the principal, making the par value on the 31st of March, 1892, $60,872 93. Not until this Fund reaches the amount of $100,000 will the income be at the disposal of the Managers for the benevolent purposes of the Society.

Certain other funds, which represent the unexpended remainders of some large legacies, have been invested for some years, and are still available for the benevolent work of the Society. These funds amount, at par, to $72,986 64.

THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.

The Managers of the Society are impressed with the importance of making adequate arrangements for supplying the Scriptures to the multitudes from many lands, who will attend the great Exposition in Chicago, in 1893. General measures have already been adopted, but it is too early to present, or even to form, detailed plans of operation. The enterprise will demand a large expenditure of money, for which a special and earnest appeal is made to the friends of the Bible in all parts of our land.

THE LIBRARY.

A few additions have been made to the Society's Library during the year, by purchase and by gift, consisting chiefly of copies of the Holy Scriptures in various languages. One volume of special value is a manuscript containing the Bible in Latin, and supposed to have been written in the fourteenth century. It comes to the Society as the gift of the Hon. Charles J. Baker, of Baltimore, Md. Another unique volume, entitled "Incunabula Biblica," contains a bibliographical account of various editions of the Latin Bible printed before the year 1500, with fac-simile lithograph reproductions of more than fifty specimen pages.

A valuable addition has been made to the collection of paintings owned by the Society, by the gift of a life-size portrait of Secretary Edward W. Gilman, painted in 1891, by Mrs. Henry Whitman, of Boston, and presented by a few of his personal friends in recognition of twenty years' service in the Society.

TRANSLATIONS AND REVISIONS.

It is with great satisfaction that the Managers have received for publication a translation of the entire Bible in the language of the Gilbert Islanders, now at last completed, after many years of patient toil, by the Rev. Hiram Bingham, who has brought the copy to the Bible House where he will superintend the work of printing. When Mr. and Mrs. Bingham, going as pioneer missionaries, reached Micronesia in 1857, they were confronted with a population of perhaps 30,000 people, scattered over numerous islands of the Kingsmill group, speaking a strange tongue, knowing nothing of letters and civilization, and utterly ignorant of the gospel. It was a part of their task to compile lists of words, to study the structure of the language, to master its vocal and grammatical peculiarities, and eventually to give the people the revealed word of God in a written form and in their own familiar speech. The task was formidable, but by degrees it has been accomplished. After five years of study, the Gospel of Matthew was ready for

publication. Other portions followed. The New Testament has passed through several editions, and now all the books of the Old Testament are about to be printed for the enlightenment of those dwellers on remote isles of the Pacific Ocean.

A translation of the Book of Genesis in the Muskokee language, prepared by the Rev. J. R. Ramsay, a missionary of the Presbyterian Church, and revised by Mrs. A. E. W. Robertson, has been offered to the Society, accompanied by the unanimous request of the Presbytery of Muscogee that it may be accepted for publication. It will be put to press at an early day.

Mr. Pratt's work on the Spanish Bible has made good progress, and the version of the Old Testament is now complete.

The new version of the Gospel of Matthew in Koordish has been printed in the Armenian letter, and the committee of translators are proceeding with the translation of the other three Gospels.

The critical work of preparing for publication the Ancient Armenian translation of the Bible at Constantinople has been going on through the year, and it is interesting to note the eagerness with which the appearance of the volume is waited for by Armenians of different communions. The printing of the first edition has already begun.

The Zulu version of the Bible which has been published hitherto, is the work of various missionaries of the American Board, and of late years there has arisen a call for it from other laborers in southeastern Africa. A large repre sentative committee has been organized to revise it, but several years must elapse before their revision will be available; and meantime it is necessary to reprint the original version, either from types or from photo-engraved plates. A few orthographical emendations have been suggested, which will be made if possible.

The missionaries in Brazil represent the urgent need of a modern version of the Bible in Portuguese, the versions