92 EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF 



The Secretary has stated in his Report that the general expenses, 

 viz : meetings of the Regents and Committees, hghting and heating ot 

 the building, postage, transportation, stationery, general printing, ap- 

 paratus, incidentals, and general salaries, have gradually increased, 

 and will grow larger when the building shall be completed and entirely 

 occupied. Last year these expenses amounted to $12,000. Besides 

 this, the salaries of the assistants and pay of attendants in the library 

 and museum are $5,740 per annum. 



The salaries are as follows : 



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General Salaries. 



That of the Secretary, (per annum,) $3,500 



Clerk 1,0()0 



Book-keeper 200 



Janitor •. 400 



Laborer 250 



Watchman > 365 



5,715 



Salary of assistant in charge of the library $2,500 



An assistant to the assistant in the library 600 



Another assistant 540 



P,640 



Salary of assistant in charge of the museum xJ,OUO 



Assistance and labor in museum 100 



5,740 



Total of permanent salaries at the present time 11,455 



Together, the salaries and general expenses before mentioned amount 

 to more tlian half the interest of the original fund, and to nearly half of 

 the interest on that fund, augmented by $150,000 of accumulated in- 

 terest, which the regents propose to add to it so as to make the per- 

 manent fund $665,000. The whole or the greater part of the interest 

 on this addition to the original fund will be required during the pre- 

 sent year for the building, and when that shall be finished, a consider- 

 able sum will be necessary to fit up and furnish the great central por- 

 tion which is to be chiefly occupied by the library and museum. It 

 may be assumed that not less $15,000 will be demanded for this pur- 

 pose. But supposing the building to be completed and furnished, and 

 the whole income at command for the operations of the Institution, and 

 assuming that the salaries and general expenses will not increase, but 

 remain as they were last year, at $17,740, there will be at the disposal 

 of the Regents tor all operations and purposes, including lectures, re- 

 searches, publications, purchase of books for the library, binding, ex- 

 plorations for the benefit of the museum, apparatus, and the purchase 

 of objects of art, a sum between $22,000 and $23,000. It will readily 

 be perceived how inadequate this sum is to the rapid accumulation of 

 a libl'ary, of collections for the museum and gallery of art, for lectures 

 and those active operations which lead direclly to the increase and dif- 

 fusion of knowledge. Even this fund may be expected to be diminished 

 by the greater expense which will attend the occupation of the entire 

 building and the increased and constantly increasing collections. 



The museum increases so rapidly by the deposit of Government col- 



