Music teachers, $2,718.75; Primary Schools, $ 77,089.77. Total, $226,102.57. Incidental expenses of High and Grammar Schools, $ 43,957.10; of all the Schools, $72,769.59. Tuition and incidental expenses, $298,872.16. Expended on School-houses during the year, $ 52,099.26. Whole expenditure for Schools, $350,971.32. Cost of School-houses, including land and extensive alterations and repairs, to May 1, 1857: — Grammar and High, $ 1,135,726; Primary, $521,000. Total, $1,656,726. Rates of Salaries. — Secretary of the Board, $ 800; Superintendent, $2,500. The Salaries of the Masters and Assistants in these Schools are as follows:Masters. High, Latin, and Normal, $ 2,400 for the first year's service, with an increase of $100 for each additional year's service, till the salary amounts to $2,800. Grammar, first year, $1,600, with an annual increase of $100, until it reaches $2,000. Sub-Masters. High and Latin, first year, $ 1,600, with an annual increase of $100, until it reaches $2,000. Grammar, first year, $1,200, with an annual increase of $100, until it reaches $1,600. Ushers. High and Latin, first year, $1,200, with an annual increase of $100, until it reaches $1,600. Grammar, $ 800, with an annual increase of $100, until it reaches $1,000. Female Assistants. Normal, Head Assistants, $ 600; other Assistants, $500. Grammar, Head Assistants, $500; other Assistants, $ 300 for the first year, with an annual increase of $ 50, until it reaches $ 450. The salaries of the Primary School teachers are fixed at $300 for the first year, with an increase of $50 per annum, until it amounts to $450 per annum. The salaries of the Grammar Masters in some of the principal towns are as follows: Boston, $2,000; Brighton, $ 800; Brookline, $1,400; Cambridge, $1,200; Charlestown, $1,300; Dorchester, $1,000; Fall River, $1,000; Lawrence, $1,100; Lowell, $ 1,000; Lynn, $1,000; New Bedford, $ 1,000; Roxbury, $1,400; Salem, $1,000; Springfield, $ 950; Worcester, $1,100. In each case the highest salary is given. TEACHERS OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN BOSTON. SCHOOLS FOR YOUNG LADIES. Joseph Hale Abbott, 2 Pemberton Sq. L. T. Emerson, 6 Allston Street. Caleb Emery, Central Place. Wm. B. Fowle, 611 Washington St. George Gannett, 24 Winter Street. D. G. Haskins, 7 W. Brookline St. Loring Lothrop, 48 Bowdoin St. R. G. Parker, 4 Kneeland Pl. Francis M. Tower, 37 Chestnut St. F. S. Williams, 12 Somerset St. Henry Williams, Jr., 12 Temple Pl. SCHOOLS FOR BOYS.. Wm. P. Atkinson, McLean St. TEACHERS OF FRENCH. M. B. M. DeMontrachy, 9 Wheeler's Ct. Jules Malignon, 72 Kingston St. TEACHERS OF ITALIAN. TEACHERS OF GERMAN. Prof. G. J. Adler, Adams House. Dr. Adolph Douai, Jamaica Plain. TEACHERS OF SPANISH. Santiago Cancio-Bello, 16 Summer St. SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS. THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in the year 1779, and incorporated by an act of the Legislature on the 4th of May, 1780. The general objects of the Society are best expressed in the following extract from its charter:-"That the end and design of the said Academy is, to promote and encourage the knowledge of the antiquities of America, and of the natural history of the country, and to determine the uses to which the various natural productions of the country may be applied; to promote and encourage medical discoveries, mathematical disquisitions, philosophical inquiries and experiments; astronomical, meteorological, and geographical observations; and improvements in agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce; and, in fine, to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people." The qualification for membership being of a very high order, the number of members is necessarily restricted, and extreme care is observed in all elections; consequently membership is in high esteem, and reputed an honor. There are three stated meetings during the year, held in the hall of the Academy in the Athenæum building in Boston, and also monthly meetings for scientific communications. The library consists of more than ten thousand volumes, treating almost entirely on the arts and sciences, perhaps the most valuable collection of the kind to be met with in the country. The Academy have published nine quarto volumes of scientific memoirs, together with several octavo volumes of the proceedings had at the meetings. The officers of the current year are:-. -Jacob Bigelow, M.D., President; Daniel Treadwell, Esq., Vice-President; Edward Wigglesworth, Treasurer; Asa Gray, M.D., Corresponding Secretary; Samuel L. Abbot, M.D., Recording Secretary; Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Librarian. Rooms, Boston Athenæum. Library hours 10 to 12, and 3 to 5. MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY. The first formal meeting of the Society took place January 24, 1791, in Boston; but the act of incorporation was not obtained till February 19, 1794, three years afterwards. This is the oldest historical society in the country; and its object, like other societies of the kind, is to collect and preserve the materials of American history. A sketch of the history of the society, by Rev. Wm. Jenks, D.D., will be found in its "Collections," 3d series, Vol. VII.; and the Anniversary Discourse, by Hon. John G. Palfrey, in the ninth volume of that series, contains a review of the first half-century of its existence. The original charter of the Society limited the associates to thirty resident members, who must reside in Massachusetts, and the same number of correThe number of sponding members, resident without that Commonwealth. members was afterwards increased to sixty resident, and an unlimited number |