REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 549 



Statement in detail of expenditures during the year 1869. 



BUILDING. 



For reconstruction of parts of building destroyed 

 by fire $1, 764 70 



For general repairs of the building 2, 345 25 



For furniture and fixtures, cases, carpets, stoves, 

 &c 2, 520 95 



GENERAL, EXPENSES. 



For meetings of the Board of Regents $122 00 



For lighting the building 239 13 



For warming the building 1, 3S9 77 



For postage 289 50 



For stationery 437 18 



For printing blanks, circulars, receipts, &c 322 25 



For tools, materials forcleaning and incidentals. 328 89 

 For salaries of secretary, chief clerk, and assist- 

 ants 7, 814 92 



PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCHES. 



For publishing Smithsonian contributions, 4to . . $1, 987 18 



For publishing miscellaneous collections, 8vo.. 3, 037 50 



For publishing Smithsonian reports, 8vo 1, 458 55 



For meteorology, salaries of clerks and comput- 

 ers, rain gauges, and thermometers. 1, 581 10 



For apparatus for researches 146 80 



For explorations, natural history, and archaeol- 

 ogy in Mexico, Florida, Alaska, New Mexico, 



Hudson's Bay, Alabama, and Nova Scotia. . . 611 54 



LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND EXCHANGES. 



For purchase of books, periodicals, and binding. $436 04 



For literary and scientific exchanges, agencies 

 at Leipsic, London, Paris, and Amsterdam.. 4,860 94 



For assistants in museum, janitor, watchmen, 



laborers, &c 5, 307 50 



For incidentals to museum, freight, alcohol, tax- 

 idermy, &c 3, 513 96 



For gallery of art : Portrait in oil of the late Dr. 

 Robert Hare, who gave his collection of chem- 

 ical and philosophical apparatus to the Insti- 

 tution 100 00 



$6,630 90 



10, 943 64 



8,822 67 



14,218 44 



Expenditures during the year 1869 40, 615 65 



Deducting this amount from the receipts of the 

 year and cash in bank in January, 1869, viz : 

 receipts $61, 585 30 



Leaves a balance in bank, January, 1870 $20, 969 65 



