REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 109 



Statement in detail of expenditures during the year 18G8 



BUILDIXG. 



For the reconstruction of parts of tlic Imilding' 

 destroyed by fire, completed in 1SG7 and paid in 

 ISGS/ 818,457 20 



Repairs of other parts of the buildino- 2, 746 49 



Furniture and fixtures to meet the general wants of 



the Institution 2, 982 38 



Amount expended on the b-uilding $24, 186 07 



GENERAL EXPENSES. 



For meetings of the Board of Regents $'303 37 



Lighting the building, offices, &c 27G 35 



Warming the building, offices, &c 1, 086 50 



Postage : r. 456 89 



8tati(mery 345 92 



Printing labels, blanks, circulars, &c 189 81 



I'ools, materials for cleaning, binding records, &c., &;o. 614 70 

 Salaries of secretary, chief clerk, and assistants, labor- 

 ers, and contingent labor 9, 552 80 



Interest on temporary over-draft 72 00 



PUBLICATIOKS, rvESEARCEES, &C. 



Publishing transactions, researches, &c., for Smithso- 

 nian Contributions, quarto $4, 633 09 



Miscellaneous collections, octavo 1, 177 45 



Smithsonian reports, illustrations, stereotyping, &c., 



octavo 1, 050 75 



Meteorology, computations, &c 1, Oil 47 



Api)aratus 99 70 



Explorations, natural history, and archaeology 1, 682 57 



LIEEAEY, MUSEUM, AND EXCHANGES. 



For pui-chase of books and binding $775 42 



Literary and scientific exchanges 2, 801 84 



Assistants in n)useum, janitor, watchmen, laborers, and 

 for labelling and arranging shells and ethnological 



specimens '. 3, 226 72 



Incidentals for museum — alcohol, bottles, &c 1, 488 29 



Freight on books, specimens, and other property 



received and sent away 2, 068 88 



12, 898 34 



9,G55 03 



10,361 15 



Exjienditures during the vear . 57, 1 00 59 



Deducting this amount from the receipts of the year 

 and cash in bank on 1st January, 1868, as pre- 

 viously stated $G7, 453 33 



Leaves a balance in bank January, 1869, of $10, 352 74 



