REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 531 



Apparatus 102 74 



Laboratory 160 78 



Incidentals, general 631 26 



Extra clerk-hire 599 qo 



Salaries, Secretary 3 > 500 00 



Salaries, chief clerk, bookkeeper, messenger, and 



laborers 2, 439 00 



14,071 50 



' PUBLICATIONS, ETC. 



Smithsonian Contributions 2, 224 57 



Smithsonian Reports 547 00 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 6, 449 06 



Other publications 210 00 



Meteorology 1, 339 15 



Researches 125 00 



Lectures 1,012 70 



11,907 48 



LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. 



Cost of books and binding 1, 953 67 



Assistants in library 1, 291 66 



Transportation for library 200 00 



Museum, salary of Assistant Secretary 2, 000 00 



Museum, assistants ' 1, 096 56 



Museum, transportation 400 00 



Museum, incidentals 1, 080 31 



Explorations 797 76 



Gallery of art U6 25 



8,936 21 



Total expenditure $37, 535 96 



From the foregoing it will be seen that the whole income during the year 

 1864 Avas $34,666 14, and that the expenditures during the same period were 

 $37,535 96, exhibiting for the first time, in the account of the current opera- 

 tions, an excess of the latter over the former of $2,869 82. 



According to the statement of the Secretary, the cause of this excess of the 

 expenditure was the constant increase in prices of all the articles used in the 

 operations of the Institution, particularly in printing and paper, and the pur- 

 chase of gold to defray the expense of the foreign agencies. 



To meet contingencies of this kind, however, as well as to carry on all the 

 operations for cash, there had been accumulated in the hands of the treasurer at 

 the beginning of the year the sum of $32,353 90. The unexpended balance, 

 therefore, now in the hands of the treasurer is $29,4S4 08. 



The appropriation by Congress for the preservation of the collections of the 

 exploring and surveying expeditions of the United States has been expenucd 

 as heretofore, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in assisting to 

 pay the expenses of extra assistants in the museum, and the cosi, of arranging 

 and preserving the specimens. The articles intrusted to the care of the Insti- 

 tution by government are in good condition, and the distribution of the duplicate 

 specimens belonging to government, as well as those of the Institution, has been 

 industriously prosecuted during the year. 



From the examination made by the committee it appears that the affairs of 

 the Institution are in a prosperous condition; that all the operations have been 



