128 KEPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



GENERAL EXPENSES. 



Meetiugs of the Board $399 25 



Ligliting the building , 260 80 



Heatiug the building 593 37 



Postage and telegraphing 395 54 



Stationery 797 96 



Incidentals (ice, hauling, insurance, &c.) 642 03 



Salaries (including allowance to family of Profes- 

 sor Henry, $2,812.50) 14,371 96 



Extra clerk hire and labor 200 00 



Books and periodicals 475 51 



$18, 130 42 



PUBLICATIONS, KESEAECHES, ETC. 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge $5, 523 14 



Miscellaneous Collections 7, 432 48 



Annual Eeport 942 20 



Eesearches 1, 032 13 



Apparatus 121 56 



Laboratory 86 21 



Explorations , 595 20 



15, 732 92 



Literary and scientific exchanges 10, 250 41 



Gallery of art 333 85 



$49, 166 32 



A larger exjienditure for repairs of the building than was anticipated 

 was made necessary by a violent and destructive storm which visited 

 Washington last summer by which the finials or caps on some of the tow- 

 ers, and several hundred slates from the roof, were blown off, the light- 

 ning-rods detached, and much other damage done to the exterior of the 

 building. Some alterations in the interior of the east wing have been 

 jnade also. 



The expenses attending "international exchanges" have steadily in- 

 creased, until they now absorb about one-fourth of tlie entire income of 

 the Institution. It has, therefore, in accordance with authority given 

 by the Board of Kegents, been decided to make a charge of five cents 

 a pound on all packages received or sent by the government depart- 

 ments, a measure rendered necessary on account of the great increase 

 in bulk of the public documents sent by them. 



REPAYMENTS. 



The Institution has made temporary advances during the year for 

 freight, &c., the repayment of which, with the amount received from 



