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The following are the estimates of receipts and appropriations of the 

 Smitbson fund for the year 1875 : 



Estimated receipts. 



Interest on the permanent fund, receivable 30th 

 June, 1875, in gold $19, 500 



Interest on the permanent fund, receivable 31st De- 

 cember, 1875, in gold 19, 500 



Interest on the Hamilton fund GO 



Probable premium on gold, 10 per cent 3, 906 



Interest on Virginia Jt)onds -, 000 



$44, 966 



Provisional appropriations. 



For building $2, 000 



For general expenses 14, 000 



For publications and researches 20, 000 



For exchanges 7, 000 



For books and apparatus 1, 000 



For contingencies 966 



$44, 966 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The annual appropriation of Congress for the preservation of the 

 Government collections intrusted to the care of the Institution has 

 been continued during the past year, and an additional sum of 

 810,000 has been granted for the fitting up and completing the cases in 

 the new halls required for these collections. 



The latter appropriation has been expended in the construction of wal- 

 nut table-cases with glass tops and sides, for the exhibition of the smaller 

 ethnological specimens in the upi^er hall, and for large cases for mam- 

 mals and fishes in the lower hall. The latter cases have also been so 

 constructed as to serve as bases or platforms for restorations of the 

 megatherium, hadrosaurus, glyptodon, &c., thus utilizing a large space, 

 and forming a very striking and imposing feature of the collections. 



The following is a tabular statement of the condition of the Museum 

 funds : 



For preservation of the Government collections. 



Balance unexpended of appropriation for the 



fiscal year ending June 30, 1874. (Statutes at 



Large, vol. 17, p. 5i8) See Report for 1873, 



page 145 $7, 500 00 



Amount expended to Deceinber 31, 1874. (See 



Museum Journal A, p. 73.) 7, 500 00 



Balance Nothing. 



