68 



NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF 



Detailed statement of the exyenditures during 1854. 



BUILDING, FURNITURE. FIXTURES, ETC. 



Pay on contracts 



Pay of architect and draftsman 



Miscellaneous incidental to building- 

 Magnetic observatory 



Furniture, &c., for uses in common. 

 Furniture, &c., for library 



GENERAL EXPENSES. 



Expenses of Board of Regents, &c. 

 Lighting and heating 



Postage 



Transportation and exchanges 



Stationery 



General printing 



Apparatus 



Incidentals general, including salary of clerk, book-keeper, jani- 

 tor, watchman, laborer, extra clerk hire 



Salary of Secretary 



PUBLICATIONS, RESEAP.CHES, AND LECTURES. 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. 



Reports on progress of knowledge 



Other publications 



Meteorology 



Investigations 



Pay of lectures 



Illustrations and apparatus for lectures. . . 

 Attendance and lighting lectures, &c 



LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND GALLERY OF ART. 



Cost of books 



General catalogue 



Stereotyping and printing 



Incidentals, library, including salary of two assistants, and 

 binding 



Salary of Assistant Secretary 



Explorations, museum 



Expenses of collections, museum 



Incidentals, including alcohol, &c., assistance and labor, appa- 

 ratus, catalogue, glass jars, &c 



Salary of Assistant Secretary 



Incidentals, gallery of art 



Total expenditures in 1854. 



$52,280 00 



1,237 00 



495 1.3 



18 77 



938 12 



52 12 



467 71 



887 30 



467 67 

 1,644 43 



662 50 

 1,094 22 



427 26 



3,600 99 

 3,499 92 



3,773 96 



83 84 



917 89 



2,203 38 



10 00 

 895 00 

 156 37 



53 94 



2,166 50 

 151 35 

 551 71 



2,329 55 



1,319 43 



250 00 



157 19 



536 54 



1,999 92 



50 00 



In the appropriations made, April, 1854, for the year the estimated 

 income of the Institution was $38,500 — [the actual income was $38,- 

 186 60] — of this sum $7,000 was devoted to the building and the re- 

 maining $31,500 to the operations of the Institution. 



The first mentioned sum (7,000) is included in the balance in the 

 treasury, the whole of which may be appropriated during the present 

 yeai to the building. 



