86 REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Statement in detail of expenditures during the year 1869. 



BUILDING. 



For reconstruction of parts of building destroyed 



by fire $1, 704 70 



For general repairs of the building 2, 345 25 



For furniture and fixtures, cases, carpets, stoves, 



&c 2, 520 95 



$G, G30 90 



GENERAL EXPENSES. 



For meetings of the Board of Regents $122 00 



For lighting the building 239 13 



For wanning the building 1, 389 77 



For postage 289 50 



For stationery 437 18 



For i^rinting blanks, circulars, receipts, &c 322 25 



For tools, materials for cleaning and incidentals . 328 89 

 For salaries of secretary, chief clerk, and assist- 

 ants 7, 814 92 



10, 943 64 



PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCHES. 



IFor publishing Smithsonian contributions, 4to . . $1, 987 18 

 For publishing miscellaneous collections, 8vo.. 3,037 50 



<For publishing Smithsonian reports, 8vo 1, 458 55 



For meteorology, salaries of clerks and comput- 

 ers, rain gauges, and thermometers 1, 581 10 



For apparatus for researches 146 80 



JFor explorations, natural history, and archaeol- 

 ogy in Mexico, Florida, Alaska, New Mexico, 

 Hudson's Bay, Alabama, and Nova Scotia. . . Gil 54 



8,822 67 



LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND EXCHANGES. 



;For purchase of books, periodicals, and binding. $436 04 



For literary and scientific exchanges, agencies 



at Leipsic, London, Paris, and Amsterdam.. 4,860 94 



'For assistants in museum, janitor, watchmen, 



laborers, &g 5, 307 50 



For incidentals to museum, freight, alcohol, tax- 

 idermy, &c 3, 513 96 



-For gallery of art : Portrait in oil of the late Dr. 

 Eobert Hare, who gave his collection of chem- 

 ical and philosophical apparatus to the Insti- 



.tution 100 00 . 



14,218 44 



Expenditures during the year 1869 40, 615 65 



Deducting this amount from the receipts of the 

 year and cash in bank in January, 1869, viz : 

 receipts $61, 585 30 



Leaves a balance in bank, January, 1870 $20, 969 65 



