REPORTS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 515 



GENERAL EXPENSES. 



Meetings of Board and committees $150 00 



Lighting and heating 1^00 00 



Postage 500 00 



Transportation and exchange 1 500 00 



Stationery '400 00 



General printing 500 00 



Apparatus 500 00 



Laboratory 500 00 



Incidentals, general 700 00 



Salaries — Secretary 3,500 00 



chief clerk 1 ; 400 00 



hook-keeper 200 00 



janitor 400 00 



watchman 500 00 



laborers 500 00 



extra clerk-hire 250 00 



$12,500 00 



PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCHES AND LECTURES. 



Smithsonian Contributions 6,000 00 



Eeports 2,000 00 



Other publications 600 00 



Meteorology 3,000 00 



Researches 300 00 



Lectures 1,000 00 



LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND GALLERY OF ART. 



Library — 



Cost of books 3,000 00 



Pay of library assistants 1,200 00 



Transportation for library 500 00 



Incidentals for library 100 00 



Museum — 



Salary of Assistant Secretary 2,000 00 



Explorations 100 00 



Collections 150 00 



Incidentals to museum 700 00 



Transportation 600 00 



Assistants and labor 2,000 00 



Gallery of art 150 00 



12,900 00 



10,500 00 

 $38,000 00 



The committee have examined all the books and accounts of the Institution for the 

 past year, and find them to be correct. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



A* T) T5 A r"H"P ' i ^ xecu ^ ve Committee* 



Report of the Executive Committee for the year 1859. 



The Executive Committee respectfully submit to the Board of Regents the follow- 

 ing report of the receipts and expenditures of the Smithsonian Institution during the 

 year 1859, with estimates for the year 1860 : 



RECEIPTS. 



The whole amount of Smithson's bequest deposited in the Treasury of 

 the United States is $515,169, from which an annual income, at six per 

 cent., is derived, of $30,910 14 



* General J. G. Totton, the other member of the Executive Committee, is now in Europe. 



