REPORTS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 509 



11,820 00 



General printing 



Apparatus 



Laboratory 



Incidentals general __. 



Salaries — Secretary __. 



chief clerk_. 



book-keeper. 



janitor 



watchman _. 



laborers 



extra clerks . 



PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCHES, AND LECTURES. 



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 researches 620 00 



Lectures — 



Pay of lecturers 900 00 



Incidentals 300 00 



LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND GALLERY OF ART 



Cost of books 



Pay of assistants 



Transportation for library—: 



Incidentals for library 



Museum, salaries 



Explorations 



Collections 



Alcohol, glass jars, &c. 



Transportation for museum 



Assistance and labor for museum 



Gallery of art 



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 treas- 

 urer has sometimes been obliged to overdraw on the bankers of the Institution, 

 whereas the six thousand dollars, reserved from appropriation and left in the Treas- 

 ury during the present year, will enable the Secretary and Executive Committee to 

 defray all expenditures without subjecting the Institution to charges for interest on 

 overdrafts. 



The committee report, also, that they have examined all the accounts and vouchers 

 and compared them with the books, and find them all correct. 

 Kespectfully submitted, 



J. A. PEAKCE,^ 



A. D. BACHE, V Executive Committee. 



J. G. TOTTENJ 



