78 EEPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



The following is therefore a statement of the receipts and expenditures 

 for the care of the National Museum in 1872 : 



Appropriation by Congress for the first half of the fiscal 



year ending oOth June, 1872, viz, July to December, 1871. $5, 000 00 



Appropriation by Congress for the first half of the fiscal year 



ending oOtli June, 1872, viz, January to June, 1872 o, 000 00 



Total for fiscal year ending 30th June, 1872 10, 000 00 



Appropriation by Congress for the first half of the fiscal year 



ending oOth June, 1873, viz, July to December, 1872 7, 500 00 



Total from congressional appropriation 17, 500 00 



Also from Smithson income for 1872, as shown in the preced- 

 ing statement , 5, 034 07 



Making a total for the care of the Museum 22, 534 07 



This large expenditure was necessary for the preservation of a num- 

 ber of perishable specimens, the mounting of the large casts of fossils 

 l)resented by Professor Henry A. Ward, of Eochester, N. Y., the prepa- 

 ration of numerous skeletons, the transfer of the Miueralogical and Geo- 

 logical Museum of the Government from the General Land Ofiice to the 

 Smithsonian building, and the preliminary examination of the speci- 

 mens of which it consisted. 



The cost of the reconstruction of the building after the fire of 1865, 

 exclusive of furniture, was $130,000, the whole of which was paid from 

 the funds of the Institution for restoring the main building, and not for 

 fitting up the rooms wanted for the farther extension of the Museum. 

 For the latter purpose Congress has made provisions in the following 

 acts : 



Smithsonian Institution : Toward the completion of the 

 hall required lor the Government collections, ten thou- 



saud dollars $10, 000 00 



41st Cong., Sess. II, Ch. 292, Stat, at Large 1S09-'71, 

 p. 295. Act (July 15, 1870) making appropriations 

 for sundry civil expenses, &C., for the fiscal year end- 

 ing June 30, 1871. 



Smithsonian Institution : For the completion of the hall 

 required for the Governruent collections, ten thousand 



dollars 10, 000 00 



41st C<mg., Sess. Ill, Chap. 114, Stat, at Large 

 1809-71, p. 501. Act (May 3, 1871) making appro- 

 priations tor sundry civil expenses of the Government 

 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1872. 



