XL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



For care and subsistence of animals for the National Zo- 

 ological Park, iiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, 

 one thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid 

 from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the 

 other half from the Treasury of the United States (de- 

 ficiency act, March 8, 1892) .' $1, 000. 00 



Expenditures from .July 1, 1891, to June 30, 1892: 



Coal and wood 



Food for animals 



Freight and hauling 



Hardware, etc 



Horseshoeing 



Lumber 



Miscellaneous expenses 



Salaries or compensation 10, 984. 12 



Stationery and ]trii)ting 72. 77 



Specimens 1, 301. 55 



17,113.50 



Balance, .July 1, 1892 1, 386. 50 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION BUILDING. 

 RECEIPTS. 



Balance, July 1, 1891 $22, .585. 77 



EXPENDITURES FROM JULY 1, 189], TO .lUNE 3(1, 189-_'. 



Building material, lime, cement, etc $230. 47 



Copiier gutters. Hashing, etc 545. 65 



Class - ^ 305. 71 



Hardware 136. 66 



Iron roof and ceiling (contract) 4, 663. 12 



Lumber 230. 67 



Miscellaneous 19. 25 



Plastering (contract) 2, 176. 50 



Services, carpenters, painters, laborers, etc 1, 490. 01 



Slate- work (contract) 603. 65 



Window sash, etc •^-•^- O*^* 



10, 724. 69 



Balance July 1, 1892 11, 861. 08 



ASTUO-PIIYSICAI. OBSERVATORY— SMITHSONIAN IXSIITUTION, 1892. 



lieeeiptt. 



Appropriation by Congress "for maintenance of Astro-Physical Observ- 

 atory under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including 

 salaries of assistants and the purchase of additional apparatus" (sun- 

 dry civil act, March 3, 1891) ^^^^> 000. 00 



ExpeudUureHfrom JuJii 1, IS'Jl, io Jiivr 3f), 1S9.3. 



Salaries or compensation: 



1 senior assistant, 7} months, at $200 $1, 500. 00 



1 astronomer, 1 month, at $180, $180; 11^ days, 



at $180 per month, $66.77 246. 77 



