82 REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



Stationery 



General printing 



Apparatus 



Laboratory 



Incidentals, general 



Salaries — Secretary 



Chief clerk 



Book-keeper 



Janitor 



Watchman 



Laborers 



Extra clerks 



PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCHES, AND LECTURES. 



$12,5Y0 00 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. $6,000 00 



Keports on the progress of knowledge 500 00 



Other publications 500 00 



Meteorology ._ 3,000 00 



Investigations, computations, and re- 

 searches 620 00 



Lectures : 



Pay of lecturers 900 00 



Incidentals 300 00 



$11,820 GO 



LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND GALLERY OF ART. 



Cost of books $1,000 00 



Pay of assistants 2,000 00 



Transportation for library 300 00 



Incidentals for library 200 00 



Museum, salaries 2,000 00 



Explorations 200 00 



Collections _ 200 00 



Alcohol, glass jars, &c 300 00 



Transportation for museum 350 00 



Assistance and labor for museum 600 00 



Gallery of art 250 00 



$7,400 00 



$34,000 00 



From this it will be seen that the estimates of expenditure for the year 

 1857 are six thousand dollars less than the receipts for the same time. 

 It is advisable thus to limit the expenditures for the present year, not 

 merely because it is easier to expand the operations of the Institution 

 than to contract them, but because, as the revenue is payable semi- 

 annually and the accounts must be paid whenever presented, the 



