498 REPORTS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Detailed Statement of the Expenditures during the year 1854. 



BUILDING, FURNITURE, FIXTURES, ETC. 



Pay on contracts $52,280 00 



Pay of architect and draughtsman- 1,237 00 



Miscellaneous incidental to huilding 495 13 



Magnetic observatory 18 77 



Furniture, &c, for uses in common 938 12 



Furniture, &c, for library 52 12 



$55,021 14 



GENERAL EXPENSES. 



Expenses of Board of Kegents, &c 467 71 



Lighting and heating 887 30 



Postage 467 67 



Transportation and exchanges 1,644 43 



Stationery 662 50 



General printing 1,094 22 



Apparatus 427 26 



Incidentals general, including salary of clerk, book-keeper, 



janitor, watchman, laborer, extra clerk-hire 3,600 99 



Salary of Secretary 3,499 92 



12,752 00 



PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCHES, AND LECTURES. 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 3,773 96 



Eeports on progress of knowledge 83 84 



Other publications 917 89 



Meteorology 2,203 38 



Investigations 10 00 



Pay of lecturers 895 00 



Illustrations and apparatus for lectures 156 37 



Attendance and lighting lectures, &c. 53 94 



8,094 38 



LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND GALLERY OF ART. 



Costof books 2,166 50 



General catalogue 151 35 



Stereotyping and printing 551 71 



Incidentals, librarv, including salary of two assistants, and 



binding _* 2,329 55 



Salary of Assistant Secretary 1,319 43 



Explorations, museum 250 00 



Expenses of collections, museum ,_ 157 19 



Incidentals, including alcohol, &c, assistance and labor, 



apparatus, catalogue, glass jars, &c. 536 54 



Salary of Assistant Secretary 1,999 92 



Incidentals, gallery of art 50 00 



9,512 19 



Total expenditures in 1854 $85,379 71 



In the appropriations made, April, 1854, for the year, the estimated income of the- 

 Institution was $38,500— [the actual income was $38,186.60]— of this sum $7,000 was- 

 devoted to the building and the remaining $31,500 to the operations of the Institu- 

 tion. 



The first mentioned sum ($7,000) is included in the balance in the Treasury, the 

 whole of which may be appropriated during the present year to the building. 



The whole expenditure on the operations of the Institution was $30,358.57, which 

 is $1,141.83 less than was appropriated. 



The appropriation was not made until one-third of the year had passed, and this, 

 with the unusual expenditure occasioned by a call of a special meeting of the Board, 

 and the extra clerk-hire and printing on account of the various reports, rendered it 



