REPORTS or COMMITTEES. 77 



GENERAL EXPENSES. 



Meetings of Board and committees $150 00 



Lighting and heating 1,000 00 



Postage 500 00 



Transportation and exchange 1,500 00 



Stationery 400 00 



General printing 500 00 



Apparatus 500 00 



Laboratory 500 00 



Incidentals, general 700 00 



Salaries . — Secretary 3,500 00 



Chief clerk 1,400 00 



Book-keeper 200 00 



Janitor 400 00 



Watchman 500 00 



Laborers 500 00 



Extra clerk hire 250 00 



112,500 00 



PUBLICATIONSj RESEARCHES AND LECTURES. 



Smithsonian Contributions.. $6,000 00 



Keports 2,000 00 



Other publications 600 00 



Meteorology 3,000 00 



Researches 300 00 



Lectures 1,000 00 



12,900 00 



LIBRARY, MUSEUM AND GALLERY OF ART. 



Library.— Cost of books $3,000 00 



Pay of library assistants 1,200 00 



Transportation for library 500 00 



Incidentals for library 100 00 



Museum. — Salary of assistant secretary 2,000 00 



Explorations 100 00 



Collections 150 00 



Incidentals to museum VOO 00 



Transportation 600 00 



Assistants and labor 2,000 00 



Gallery of art 150 00 



10,500 00 



38,000 00 



The committee have examined all the books and accounts of the 

 Institution for the past year, and find them to be correct. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



J. A. PEARCE, 

 A. D. BACHE, 



Executive Cammiltee,*^ 



'General J. G. Totten, the other member of the exeeutive committee, is now in Europe 



