100 REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



p ostag e $600 00 



Transportation and exchange 1,500 00 



Stationery;-- 300 00 



General printing COO 00 



Apparatus, 800 00 



Laboratory J°? 00 



Incidentals general ■ 500 00 



Salaries.— Secretary 3, 500 00 



Chief clerk, messenger, book-keeper, 



laborers, &c 3,000 00 



Extra clerk hire 500 00 



$12,650 00 



PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCHES, AND LECTURES. 



Smithsonian Contributions 6, 000 00 



Reports on progress 500 00 



Miscellaneous collections 1,000 00 



Meteorology 3,000 00 



Investigations '00 00 



Lectures 800 00 



12,000 00 



LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND GALLERY OF ART. 



Library.— Cost of books 2, 500 00 



Pay of assistants 1, 500 00 



Transportation 250 00 



Incidentals 50 00 



Museum. — Salary of Assistant Secretary 2,000 00 



Explorations 300 00 



Collections 200 00 



Incidentals 1,000 00 



Assistants and labor 2, 000 00 



Transportation 600 00 



Gallery of Art 300 00 



10,700 00 



38,000 00 



The committee have carefully examined all the books and accounts 

 of the Institution for the past year, and find them to be correct. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



J. A. PEARCE, 

 A. D. BACHE, 



Executive Committee* 

 Washington. 



* General Totten, the other member of the Executive Committee, is temporarily absent 

 in California on official duty. 



