82 REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Expenditures for 1870. 



Bnilding- and furniture - . $4, S4.3 13 



General expenses 11, 810 05 



Publications and researches 15, 873 22 



Museum and exchanges 9, 421 22 



Total expenditures for the year 41, 981 22 



Balance 508 10 



Besides this balance of $508 10, there was a balance of 

 $20, 909 05 in bank, at the beginning of 1870, which 

 makes the total uninvested and available balance men- 

 tioned in the general statement of $21, 477 81 



In addition to the receipts mentioned above, the Institution received 

 from and accounted to the Interior Department for $5,024, being part 

 of the $10, 000 appropriated by Congress for the i)reservation and care 

 during the year ending June 30, 1871, of the specimens collected by 

 various exploring expeditions. This sum is not included in the account 

 of expenditures. 



Statement in detail of expenditures — 1870. 



BUILDING. 



For reconstruction of parts of building $800 12 



For general repairs of building 3, 852 81 



For furniture and fixtures, cases, carpets, 

 stoves, &c 130 20 



$4, 843 13 



GENERAL EXPENSES. 



For meetings of the Board of Eegeuts $178 25 



For lighting the buikling 355 42 



For warming the building 1, 500 22 



For postage 770 98 



For stationery 829 19 



For printing blanks, circulars, receipts, &c 389 13 



For tools, materials for cleaning and inci- 

 dentals 478 16 



For salaries of Secretary, clerks, and assist- 

 ants 10, 273 30 



14,840 65 



