568 KEPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Meteorology and researches . , . . . $3, 232 81 



Apparatus 815 09 



Laboratory . 109 88 



Explorations. 228 00 



Lectures 600 00 



EXCHANGES. 



$18, 799 87 



Literary and scientific exchanges through agencies in Lon- 

 don, Paris, Leipsic, Amsterdam, Milan, &c 6, 251 74 



MUSEUM. 



Incidentals in addition to Government appropriation 278 31 



Total expenditure from Smithson fuud in 1873 45, 110 97 



During the past year the Institution has advanced money for the 

 payment on account of the Government for freights on specimens, pur- 

 chase of apparatus for Government expeditions, &c, the repayments 

 of which, together with the amount received for sales of publications, 

 &c, have been deducted from the several items of the foregoing ex- 

 penditures, as follows : 



From museum, for repayments for freight $967 46 



From museum, for repayments for labor, &c 510 CO 



From exchanges, for repayments for freight 196 95 



From apparatus, for instruments for expeditions 394 67 



From postage, for repayments 37 45 



From building, for repayments 1, 258 37 



From heating, for repayments 325 21 



From cost of books, for repayments 33 00 



From Smithsonian contributions, from sales 99 07 



From Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, from sales 119 95 



From Smithsonian reports, from sales 16 00 



From incidentals, from sales old material 35 35 



Total repayments and miscellaneous credits in 1873 . . 3, 993 48 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



For several years past Congress has made an annual appropriation 

 of $15,000 for the support of the National Museum, under the care of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, and it has also in the last two years appro- 

 priated $25,000 for the completion and fitting up of the halls required 

 for the Government collections, and $12,000 for the introduction of 



