REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 75 



General printing $3 50 



Apparatus 531 98 



Laboratory 129 59 



Incidentals, general 584 65 



Extra clerk -hire 371 65 



Salaries, secretary 3, 500 00 



Salaries, chief clerk, bookkeeper, laborers, &c 2, 389 00 



Smithsonian contributions 2, 545 48 



Smithsonian reports 583 85 



Smithsonian miscellaneous collections 3, 535 88 



Smithsonian and other publications 441 15 



Meteorology 2, 410 97 



Researches and investigations 150 00 



Lectures 1, 094 32 



$11,G88 69 



Cost of books and binding 1, 844 65 



Pay of assistants in library 1, 100 00 



Transportation for library 290 35 



Incidentals for library 24 15 



Museum, salary of assistant secretary 2, 000 00 



Transportation for museum 695 29 



Incidentals for museum 395 40 



Explorations for museum 762 39 



Gallery of art 147 00 



10,761 65 



7,259 23 

 $31,821 35 



The whole income during the year 1863 was §34,665 64, corresponding with 

 the estimate in the report for 1862. The expenditures during the year 1863 

 were S3 1,821 31, leaving $2,844 33 to be added to the balance in the hands of 

 the treasurer at the beginning of the year. 



The amount of bills outstanding will not exceed $2,000. 



The foregoing statement is an actual exhibit of the Smithsonian funds irre- 

 spective of credits and payments made in behalf of other parties. The Institu- 

 tion has during the year paid several bills for work done and articles purchased 

 on account of the government, part of which has been refunded and credited to 

 the appropriation from which the expenditure Avas originally made. Those 

 which have been refunded are as follows : $476 87 from the Surgeon General's 

 office for books purchased in Europe through the agency of the Institution ; 

 and $37 from the Xaval Observatory for transportation. In addition to these, 

 several expenditures have been made on account of the Light-house Board for 

 pliotometrical apparatus, and experiments in the laboratory, which have not yet 

 been refunded. 



Messrs. Hice & Kendall, of Boston, have also refunded $93 80 for paper pur- 

 chased (if th(-'m remaining in their hands not used. 



The appropriations from Congress for the preservation of the collections and 

 the distribution of the duplicate specimens of the exploring and surveying 

 expeditions of the government have been expended, as heretofore, under the 

 diieclion of the Secretary of the Interior in assisting to pay the expenses of 

 assistants in the museum, and the cost of arranging, labelling, and preserving 

 I he specimens. The sums thus received have been credited to the museum, and 

 have scr^'ed to diminish the apparent amount of expenditures for that object. 



