KEPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 563 



The following is therefore a statement of the receipts and expenditures 

 for the care of the National Museum in 1872 : 



Appropriation by Congress for the first half of the fiscal 

 year ending 30th June, 1872, viz, July to December, 1871. $5, 000 00 



Appropriation by Congress for the first half of the fiscal year 



ending 30th June, 1872, viz, January to June, 1872 5, 000 00 



Total for fiscal year ending 30th June, 1872 10, 000 00 



Appropriation by Congress for the first half of the fiscal year 



ending 30th June, 1873, viz, July to December, 1872 7, 500 00 



Total from congressional appropriation 17, 500 00 



Also from Smithson income for 1872, as shown in the preced- 

 ing statement , 5, 034 07 



Making a total for the care of the Museum 22, 534 07 



This large expenditure was necessary for the preservation of a num- 

 ber of perishable specimens, the mounting of the large casts of fossils 

 presented by Professor Henry A. Ward, of Eochester, N. Y., the prepa- 

 ration of numerous skeletons, the transfer of the Mineralogical and Geo- 

 logical Museum of the Government from the General Land Office to the 

 Smithsonian build ing, and the preliminary examination of the speci- 

 mens of which it consisted. 



The cost of the reconstruction of the building after the fire of 1865, 

 exclusive of furniture, was $136,000, the whole of which was paid from 

 the funds of the Institution for restoring tbe main building, and not for 

 fitting up the rooms wanted for the further extension of the Museum. 

 For the latter purpose Congress has made provisions in the following 

 acts: 



Smithsonian Institution : Toward the completion of the 

 hall required for the Government collections, ten thou- 

 sand dollars $10, 000 00 



41st Cong., Sess. II, Ch. 292, Stat, at Large 1809-'71, 

 p. 295. Act (July 15, 1870) making appropriations 

 for sundry civil expenses, &c, for the fiscal year end- 

 ing June 30, 1871. 



Smithsonian Institution : For the completion of the hall 

 required for the Government collections, ten thousand 

 dollars 10, 000 00 



41st Cong., Sess. Ill, Chap. 114, Stat, at Large 

 1869-71, p. 501. Act (May 3, 1871) making appro- 

 priations for sundry civil expenses of the Government 

 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1872. 



