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glass jars, bottles, etc., $248.32; lumber, $1,108.22; pabits, oils, slue, 

 etc., $4r)0.14; office aud liall furniture, etc., $122,73; metals, $47.16; 

 leather and rubber, $18.80; iron brackets, $141.94; total, $0,302.57. 



TLe following is a list of cases, furniture, etc., purchased during the 

 year: One quartered-oak drawer cabinet, $125; one quartered-oak 

 desk, $93; one suspension ladder and truck, $25; three typewriting 

 machines, at $85, $87.75, and $90, respectively; one oak stepladdcr, $2; 

 one oak washstaud, $6; two hundred sub-unit trays, $G4. 



The followiug is a partial list of cases, furniture, and fittings con- 

 structed in the Museum shops during the year: Ten exhibition cases, 

 four office bookcases, nine storage cases, twenty-two unit drawers, two 

 doors, four ladders, six screens, seven thousand four hundred label 

 holders, sixteen metal pans, one sash, fourteen label frames, fifteen 

 bases, one thousand five hundred exhibition blocks, fifty-five packing 

 boxes, and sixty- seven boxes for other purposes. 



The followiug is a partial list of cases, furniture, fittings, etc., repaired 

 and altered : Seven bases, eight unit boxes, eight metal buckets, twenty- 

 four exhibition cases, eight chairs, three desks, seventeen doors, thir 

 teen drawers of desks, etc., eight unit drawers, three la])el frames, fifty- 

 two locks, six sash, seven screens, eleven skylights, and four windows. 



Other incidental work was attended to as follows: Unit boxes var- 

 nished, 20; fire buckets painted, 30; fire buckets lined, 3; exhibition 

 cases painted, 90; exhibition cases glazed, 22; exhibition cases var- 

 nished, 7; exhibition cases provided with castors, 24; doors fitted, 30; 

 doors painted, 3; desk drawers fitted, 12; unit drawers provided with 

 paper bottoms, 198; unit drawers fitted, 971; label fiames varnished, 

 17; picture frames varnished, 2; locks placed on cases, desks, etc., 32; 

 sash glazed, 2; sash painted, 2; screens iminted, 23; skylight glazed^ 

 1; windows painted, 11; windows glazed, 41. 



Heating and lighting. — For salaries or compensation, $0,177.43; spe- 

 cial orcontract services, $51.25; coaland wood, $2,791.90; gas, $1,455.88; 

 telephones, $444; electrical supplies, $210.75; rental of call boxes, $90; 

 heating supplies, $327.41; telegrams, $6.31; total, $11,554.93. 



Repairs to huildings. — Services, $662.13; brickwork (by contract), 

 $1,378; boiler tubes, $594 ; boiler compound, $56 ; polishing compound, 

 $8.75; iron water headers, $200; iron grate bars, $109.78; magnesia 

 pipe covering, $916.20; pipe fittings, $18.88; asphaltum and bronze, 

 $2.50; plastering, $7.80; advertising proposals, $32.67; total, $3,980.71. 



Rent of icorhshops.— For hunher, $29.15; rent, $975; total, $1,004.75. 



Postage. — For postage stamps, etc., $500. 



The foregoing expenditures leave unexpended balances for the years 

 ending June 30, 1894, and June 30, 1895, with which such indebtedness 

 as was created during those fiscal years and still remains outstanding, 

 may be liquidated, as follows: Fiscal year 1894, $236.12; fiscal year 

 1895, $7,159.21. These balances are divided as foUows, viz: 



Appropriation for 1894. — Preservation of collections, $235.27; furni- 

 ture and fixtures, 9 cents ; heating and lighting, 76 cents ; total, $236.12. 

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