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EXPENDITURES IN 1879. 



Building : 



Repairs and improvements $2, 232 28 



Furniture and fixtures (for new offiees, 



&e.) 1,110 25 



$3,312 53 



General expenses: 



Meetings of the Board 580 80 



Lighting the building 74 50 



Heating the building 234 96 



Postage and telegrams 215 38 



Stationery 982 83 



Incidentals, insurance, ice, hauling 918 94 



Salaries 13, 150 00 



Extra clerk hire and labor 159 65 



Books and periodicals 567 13 



16, 884 19 



Publications and researches : 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. 3, 129 49 

 Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections . . 6, 170 24 



Smithsonian annual report 97 86 



Besearches 975 85 



Apparatus 14 S~) 



Laboratory 206 84 



Explorations 683 70 



11, 278 83 



Exchanges : 



Literary and scientific exchanges 9, 554 17 



Gallery of Art : 



Purchase of busts „ 50 00 



Total expenditures in 1879 $41, 110 02 



Balance in Treasury of United States January 2, 1880 $20, 894 06 



Among the receipts for the year is a bequest of $102.59 by Dr. Sim- 

 eon Habel, of Xew York, the author of one of the Smithsonian Contri- 

 butions to Knowledge, published in 1878, entitled "The Sculptures of 

 Santa Lucia Cosumalwhuapa in Guatemala." The author was an Aus- 

 trian physician who relinquished his medical practice to make at his 

 own expense a tour of exploration through Central America. The re- 

 sults of his researches were presented to the Smithsonian Institution 

 for publication. Professor Henry afforded every facility to Dr. Habel 

 for the preparation of his work, by furnishing him a room for several 

 mouths at the Institution where he could have his drawings copied by 

 a skillful artist, and the doctor in appreciation of this courtesy informed 

 the Secretary that on his death he would leave a part of his property to 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



