REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 5t)3 



PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCHES. 



For publishing Smithsonian contributions, 4to. $6, 986 57 



For publishing miscellaneous collections, 8vo. . 3, 065 37 



For publishing Smithsonian reports, 8vo 283 45 



For meteorology, salaries of clerk and compu- 

 ters, and for thermometers and rain-gauges. . 3, 119 00 



For apparatus for researches 249 70 



For explorations, natural history, and arch- 

 aeology 1, 414 13 



Lectures 755 00 



$15,873 22 



MUSEUM AND EXCHANGES. 



For literary and scientific exchanges, through 

 agencies at Leipsic, London, Paris, Amster- 

 dam, &c $4, 165 62 



For museum, salary of assistant secretary and 



assistants in museum, and for incidentals in 



addition to the appropriation from Congress. 5, 008 84 



For purchase of books, periodicals, &c 249, 76 



9, 424 22 



Expenditures during 1870 44, 9S1 22 



Estimated receipts for 1871, 



From interest on Smithson fund, in Treasury of the United 

 States $39,000 00 



Probable premium on gold, 10 per cent, on the above 

 $39,000 3,900 00 



Sale of books, &c 1, 000 00 



Total 43,900 00 



Estimated appropriations for 1871. 



For general expenses $10, 000 00 



For publications, researches, &c 20, 000 00 



For exchanges 5, 000 00 



For purchase of books and apparatus 2, 400 00 



For museum, (additional to congressional appropriation) . . 1, 500 00 

 For steam heating-apparatus fund 5, 000 00 



Total 43,900 00 



Besides the above estimated receipts, there is in bank, as before 

 stated in the general account, the sum of $21,477 81. 



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