122 REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Provisional appropriations. 



For building $2, 000 00 



For general expenses 15, 000 00 



For publications and researches 15, 000 00 



For exchanges 9, 000 00 



For books and apparatus !l , 000 00 



For contingencies 341 20 



$42, 341 20 

 NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The government collections of specimens of natural history, ethnology 

 geology, &c., continue in charge of the Smithsonian Institution, and 

 Congress has made the necessary appropriations for their care and 

 preservation, and for defraying the expense of packing, moving, and 

 storing the articles received at the close of the International Exhibition 

 in Philadelphia. The advances made by the Institution in previous 

 years for the construction of a hiboratory of natural history, required 

 for the iireparation of new specimens for the Centennial, have also been 

 refunded. 



The following is a statement of the National Museum appropriations 

 for 1877 and 1878, and the balances at the beginning of the year 1878 : 



The appropriation by Congress for the care and preservation of tlie 

 collections for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, was $10,000. Of 

 this amount $5,090.86 were expended up to December 31, 1876, and the 

 balance of $4,909.14 has been expended during the six months ending 

 June 30, 1877. 



For repairing and fitting up the " Armory Building," and storing the 

 specimens received from the International Exhibition, an appropria- 

 tion was made by Congress of $4,500, of which $3,916.23 were expended 

 in the six months ending December 31, 1876, and the balance of $583.77 

 has been expended during the first six months of 1877. 



APPROPRIATIONS BY CONGRESS FOR NATIONAL MUSEUM IN 1877. 



Preservation of collections^ Smithsonian Institution^ 1878. 



*' For preservation and care of the collections of the National 

 Museum" $18,000 00 



" For expenses of making up into sets for distribution to col- 

 leges and academies, the duplicate ores, minerals, and 

 objects of natural history now belonging to the United 

 States, or in the collections of the International Exposi- 

 tion presented to it by foreign governments." Act March 

 3, 1877. (Digest of Appropriations, 1878, page 86.) 5, 000 00 



$23, 000 00 



