$11,634.31 and the expenditures $10,688.44. The balance car- 

 ried forward is also larger than in past years and insures rapid 

 progress in installation early in 1914. It is of the greatest im- 

 portance that the General Account shall carry over each year a 

 balance sufficient to maintain active work until new funds are 

 obtained. 



City Council made the usual appropriation of $4,000 for main- 

 tenance. Of this amount $3,126.25 was expended for salaries, 

 and the remainder for the maintenance expenses of the various 

 departments. The distribution of these expenditures varies 

 little from that in previous years, for it is only by the closest ad- 

 herence to a minimum budget that so large a work can be main- 

 tained with the money available. 



The General Account received $1,290 from fifty-two members 

 and $1,341.20 from other sources. A list of the members of the 

 Museum is appended to this report. Case construction, installa- 

 tion of collections, and all other permanent improvements are 

 dependent entirely upon the General Account on the fundamen- 

 tal principle that the Museum is the creation of the people of 

 Charleston, its housing and maintenance only being provided by 

 City Council. The membership is thus the fundamental basis 

 of development and should increase from year to year as the 

 service of the Museum to the people grows. The problem of the 

 coming year is to bring the community to a better appreciation 

 of these relations and thus to increase the number of members. 



Special accounts include an appropriation of $4,300 by City 

 Council for building repairs; receipts of $552.56 from affiliated 

 colleges for the expense of their work in our laboratories, exclu- 

 sive of salaries; receipts of the Natural History Society, amount- 

 ing to $121.50; etc. The work done under these accounts is de- 

 scribed later in this report. 



BUILDING 



It is with the greatest satisfaction and relief that the director 

 is able to report the building in a state of excellent repair. When 

 the building came into the possession of the Museum in 1907, it 

 had been unused, or occupied for temporary purposes only, for 

 several years, and had undergone the general deterioration natu- 

 ral under such circumstances. The expense of adapting the 

 building to museum requirements absorbed so much of the small 

 appropriations of the next three years that the fundamental de- 



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