.522 REPORTS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



GENERAL EXPENSES. 



Meetings of the Board __. $66 00 



Lighting and heating 1,074 94 



Postage 389 08 



Transportation, general 656 24 



Exchanges 793 07 



Stationery 194 60 



General printing 50 16 



Apparatus 711 70 



Laboratory 161 42 



Incidentals, general 400 38 



Extra clerk-hire 434 10 



Salaries — Secretary 3,500 00 



Chief clerk, book-keeper, messenger, and laborers. 2,468 00 



$10,899 69 



PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCHES, AND LECTURES. 



Smithsonian Contributions 3,936 85 



Smithsonian Reports 915 00 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 1,627 63 



Other publications 310 50 



Meteorology 3,059 04 



Researches and investigations 111 00 



Lectures 804 94 



10,764 96 



LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND GALLERY OF ART. 



Cost of books and binding 915 78 



Pay of assistants in library 1,141 00 



Transportation for library 126 87 



Incidentals for library 23 12 



Museum — salary of Assistant Secretary 2,000 00 



Transportation for museum 406 33 



Incidentals for museum 477 35 



Explorations 432 25 



Gallery of art 214 95 



5,737 65 



Total expenditures $29,136 92 



On account of the delay in obtaining the interest due from the United States at the 

 beginning of the year, the foregoing accounts for 1861 were made up to the 9th of 

 January, 1862. 



It will be seen that the whole income during the year 1861 was $34,600.14, instead 

 of the estimated income of $38,626.14. This difference is caused by the failure of 

 Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia to pay the interest on their bonds, and by tho 

 Treasurer not having as yet collected the $6 from the corporation of Washington. 



The expenditures during 1861 were $29,136.92, leaving $5,523.22 to be added to the 

 balance in the hands of the Treasurer on the 11th of January, 1861, making $22,- 

 045.17 in hand for paying in cash the expenses of the operations of the Institution as 

 rapidly as the bills are presented. 



The foregoing statement is an actual exhibit of the Smithsonian funds, irrespective 

 of credits and disbursements, which have been made in behalf of other parties. Eor 

 •example — the Institution frequently advances money to pay for the transportation of 

 packages in connection with its general system of exchange, and, in all such cases, 

 the money, when refunded, is credited to the appropriation from which the expend- 

 iture was originally made. Again : the use of the lecture room is, in many instances, 

 granted for charitable and literary purposes without any other charge than that for 

 the gas consumed, and the pay of the necessary attendants, the whole amounting to 

 ten dollars each night. Half of this is credited on the books of the Institution to 

 the account of "lighting and heating," and the other half paid directly to the per- 

 sons employed. 



The appropriation from Congress for the preservation of the collections of the ex- 

 ploring and surveying expeditions of the United States has been expended as usual, 



