EEPOKT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 557 



Literary and scientific exchanges through agen- 

 cies in London, Paris, Leipsic, Amsterdam, 

 Milan, &c $4, 201 50 



Purchase of books and periodicals 253 86 



$12,588 31 



Total expenditures, (repayments having been de- 

 ducted) $48, 355 29 



From the above statement, it appears that the expenditures were 

 $5,162.79 in excess of the receipts; but to meet this deficiency, $5,000 

 of the congressional appropriation for the museum, as was stated before, 

 is still in the Treasury of the United States. Had this sum been drawn 

 duriug the year, it would have been deducted from the $8,132.95 charged 

 to the museum. 



During the past year the Institution has advanced money for the pay- 

 ment of freight on specimens and articles directed to its care, and for 

 fitting out the expedition toward the north pole. It has also sold pub- 

 lications, old and useless material, and meteorological instruments, the 

 payments for which have been deducted from the several items of the 

 previous accounts of expenditures; as follows: 



From the museum, for repayments for freight. $592 92 



From exchanges, for repayments on expense of literary and 

 scientific exchanges 945 17 



From explorations, for repayments on account of Hall's expedi- 

 tion toward the north pole, &c 522 27 



From Smithsonian contributions and miscellaneous collec- 

 tions, for sales of publications 525 70 



Building and incidentals general, repayments for old mate- 

 rial, postage refunded, &c 622 59 



Apparatus — sale of meteorological apparatus 40 00 



Total repayments and miscellaneous credits 3, 248 65 



Appropriations and expenditures from Congress on account of the museum 

 and care of the Government collections. 

 In addition to the receipts from the Smithson fund, the following 



amounts have been received : 



From appropriation by Congress for fitting up halls for 

 collections $20, 000 00 



From appropriation by Congress for annual care of collec- 

 tions, being part of the $10,000 appropriated for the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1871, ($5,024 having been drawn 

 in the year 1870) 4, 976 00 



24, 976 00 



