100 REPORT OF TilE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Payment for loss of tools l)y tlie fire, antliorized by 



resolution of the Board, Fel)ruary 1, 1SG7 S500 00 



Salaries secretary, clerks, and laborers 8,676 65 



812,488 84 



PTJBLICATIOXS AlfD RESEARCnES. 



Smithsonian contributions, (quarto) 84,621 76 



Smithsonian miscellaneous collection;?, (octavo) 2,045 20 



Smithsonian report, illustrations, stereotyping, &c . . . 920 18 



Meteorology / 1,044 39 



Apparatus 457 82 



Laboratory 17 41 



Explorations 923 49 



10,030 25 



LIBKAEY, MUSEUM, AND LITEKAET EXCHAXGES. 



Purchase of books and binding 8719 10 



Literary and scientific exchanges 3,507 87 



Assistants in museum 5,890 39 



Incidentals for museum, alcohol, benzine, &c 1,715 81 



Freights 2,072 38 



■ 13,905 55 



Total expenditure in 1867 75,075 38 



The Board of Eegents having directed the sale of the United States 7.30 

 bonds, as also the Indiana, Georgia, and Washington bonds, the proceeds to be 

 applied to the increase of the permanent capital, this was accordingly d(jne 

 through the agency of the bankers of the Institution. The act of Congress of 

 February 8, 1867, passed in accordance with the memorial of the Board of 

 Regents, (see report for 1866, page 74,) authorized the Institution to deposit 

 with the Secretary of the Treasury, on the same terras as the original bequest, 

 the residuary legacy of Smithson, togetlier with other sums not exceeding, with 

 the original, 81,000,000. From part of tlie proceeds, of the sale of the United 

 States and State stocks referred to, the sum of 8108,620 37, with the residuary 

 legacy, 826,210 63, making 8134,831, was deposited in the treasmy of the 

 United States ; thus making the total amount of the Smithson fund perj^etually 

 in the United States treasurv, bearing 6 per cent, interest, pavable semi-annu- 

 ally, 8650,000. 



The Commissioner of Agriculture continues to pay one-half of the salary of 

 the clerk employed to take charge of the meteorological statistics. 



The appropriation annually made by Congress " for the care and preservation 

 of the collections of the exploring and surve3'ing expeditions of the govern- 

 ment" has been expended, as heretofore, under the direction of the Secretary of 

 the Interior, and as the amount was increased for the year ending July 1, 1868, 

 from 84,000 to 810,000, a part of this has been applied to the preservation of 

 that part of the building devoted to the collections, and other purposics. 



The State of Virginia has paid four per cent, interest on its stock, reserving 

 two per cent, in Richmond, to be paid whenever the conflicting claims between 

 the old State and the now State of West Virginia should be settled. All the 

 interest due on the stock of the State up to the 1st of January, 1867, amount- 

 ing to 819,260, has been funded by the issue of new bonds bearing six per cent, 

 interest, none of wliich has, however, yet been paid. The total amount of Vir- 



