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

 year 1880 : 



RECEIPTS. 



Interest on $GoO,000 for the year 1880, at G per cent $30, 000 00 



Interest on Virginia bonds, sale of coupons })y Higgs & Co. 

 for January 1 and July 1, ISSO, for •'1^3,5213 (I^^ovember, 



27, 1880), less commission 3, 230 70 



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



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

 December 31, 1880 . 23 88 



12,323 64 

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



Total for 1880 G3, 217 70 



EXrENDITURES. 



Buildings : 



Eepairs and improvements $1, 722 71 



Furniture and lixtures , 360 15 



General expenses : 



Meetings of the Board 



Lighting the building 



Heating the building 



Postage and telegrai)hing 



Stationery 



Incidentals, blanks, hauling, &c 



Salaries . : , 12, 700 00 



Extra clerk hire and labor 295 00 



Books and periodicals 889 71 



$2,091 86 



16,879 79 



Publications and researches : 



Smithsonian Contributions 5, 358 95 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 4, 844 66 



Smithsonian annual reports 731 66 



Researches 400 44 



Explorations 1, 191 59 



Laboratory 194 68 



12, 721 98 



Exchanges : 

 Literary and scientific , 9, 996 05 



Gallery of art : 

 Purchase of articles 93 50 



Increase of the permanent 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 



