546 REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Statement in detail of expenditures during tJie pear 1868 



BUILDING. 



For the reconstruction of parts of the building 

 destroyed by fire, completed in 1867 and paid in 

 1S68 '. $18,457 20 



Repairs of other parts of the building 2, 746 49 



Furniture and fixtures to meet the general wants of 



the Institution 2, 982 38 



Amount expended on the building $24, 186 0? 



GENERAL EXPENSES. 



For meetings of the Board of Regents $303 37 



Lighting the building, offices, &c 276 35 



Warming the building, offices, &c 1, 0S6 50 



Postage 456 89 



Stationery 345 92 



Printing labels, blanks, circulars, &c -.. 189 81 



Tools, materials for cleaning, binding records, &c, &c. 614 70 

 Salaries of secretary, chief clerk, and assistants, labor- 

 ers, and contingent labor 9, 552 80 



Interest on temporary over-draft 72 00 



PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCHES, &C. 



Publishing transactions, researches, &c, for Smithso- 

 nian Contributions, quarto $4, 633 09 



Miscellaneous collections, octavo 1, 177 45 



Smithsonian reports, illustrations, stereotyping, &c., 



octavo 1, 050 75 



Meteorology, computations, &c 1, 011 47 



Apparatus 99 70 



Explorations, natural history, and archaeology 1, 682 57 



LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND EXCHANGES. 



For purchase of books and binding $775 42 



Literary and scientific exchanges 2, 801 84 



Assistants in museum, janitor, watchmen, laborers, and 

 for labelling and arranging shells and ethnological 



specimens 3, 226 72 



Incidentals for museum — alcohol, bottles, &c 1, 4S8 29 



Freight on books, specimens, and other property 



received and sent away 2, 068 88 



12, 898 34 



9,655 03 



10,361 15 



Expenditures during the year , . . . 57, 100 59 



Deducting this amount from the receipts of the year 

 and cash in bank on 1st January, 1868, as pre- 

 viously stated $67, 453 33 



Leaves a balance in bank January, 1869, of $10, 352 74 



