EEPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 83 



PUBLICATIOISiS AND EESEARCHES. 



For publisliing Smithsonian coutributions, 4to. $G, OSG 57 



For pablisliing miscelianeoiis collections, 8vo. . 3, 0G5 37 



For publishing Smithsonian reports, 8vo 283 45 



For meteorology, salaries of clerk and compu- 

 ters, and for thermometers and rain-gauges. . 3, 119 00 



For apparatus for researches 249 70 



For explorations, natural history, and arch- 



iEology 1, 414 13 



Lectures 755 00 



$15,873 22 



MUSEUM AND EXCHANGES. 



For literary and scientific exchanges, through 

 agencies at Leipsic, London, Paris, Amster- 

 dam, &c $4, 105 02 



For museum, salary of assistant secretary and 

 assistants in museum, and for incidentals in 

 addition to the appropriation from Congress. 5, 008 84 



For purchase of books, periodicals, &c 249, 70 



9 ±24: 22 



Expenditures during 1870 44, 981 22 



Estimated receipts for 1871. 



From interest on Smithson fund, in Treasury of the United 



States .?*30, 000 00 



Probable premium on gold, 10 per cent, on the above 



$39,000 3, 900 00 



Sale of books, &c 1, 000 00 



Total 43, 900 00 



Estimated appropriations for 1871. 



For general expenses $10, 000 00 



For publications, researches, &c 20, 000 00 



For exchanges 5. 000 00 



For purchase of books and apparatus 2. 400 00 



For museum, (additional to congressional appropriation) .. 1,500 00 

 For steam heating-apparatus fund 5, 000 00 



Total 43, 900 00 



Besides the above estimated receipts, there is in bank, as before 

 stated in the general account, the sum of $21,477 81. 



