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The following is a statement of tlie receipts and expenditures for the 

 year 1880 : 



RECEIPTS. 



Interest on $050,000 for the year 1880, at G per cent $39, 000 00 



Interest on Virginia bonds, sale of coupons by Eiggs & Co. 

 for January 1 and July 1, 1880, for $3,522 (November, 



27, 1880), less commission 3^ 239 76 



Interest on Hamilton fund of $1,000 for the year 1880 GO 00 



Interest on the Habel fund of $500 from March 15, 1880, to 



December 31, 1880 . 23 88 



^ 42,323 G4 



Balance on hand at the beginning of 1880 20, 894 OG 



Total for 1880 G3, 217 70 



EXPENDITURES. 



Buildings : 



Eepairs and improvements $1, 722 71 



Furniture and fixtures 3G9 15 



General expenses : 



Meetings of the Board 327 25 



Lighting the building 29 15 



Heating the building 572 11 



Postage and telegraphing 324 74 



Stationery 888 07 



Incidentals, blanks, hauling, &g 853 7G 



Salaries 12,700 00 



Extra clerk hire and labor 295 00 



Books and i^eriodicals 889 71 



$2,091 86 



10,879 79 



Publications and researches : 



Smithsonian Contributions 5, 358 95 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 4, 844 6() 



Smithsonian annual reports 731 6Q 



Kesearches 400 44 



Explorations .' 1, 191 59 



Laboratory 194 G8 



12, 721 98 



Exchanges : 

 Literary and scientific , 9, 996 05 



Gallery of art : 

 Purchase of articles : - 03 50 



Increase of the perrnanent fund : 

 Deposited in United States Treasury as Habel bequest 500 00 



Total expenditures 42, 283 18 



Balance on hand in Treasury of the United States January 



1,1881 20,934 52 



