72 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



Several students of taxidermy have received instructions from Mr. 

 W. T. Hornaday. 



PROPERTY, SUPPLIES, AND ACCOUNTS. 



The following statement relating to cases and other furniture, and 

 to the supplies, and accounts of the Museum, together with a list of em- 

 ployes for the fiscal year 188S-'89, has been prepared by Mr. W. V. Cox, 

 chief clerk. 



At the time of submitting the last report upon the finances of the 

 Museum, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for preservation 

 of collections, 1888, was $239.11. Since then $60 has been expended for 

 specimens ; $9.38 for books ; $46.36 for travel, and $122 for freight and 

 cartage, leaving, May 1, 1890, an unexpended balance $1.37. 



The appropriations received by the Museum for the year ending June 

 30, 1889, are as follows: for preservation of collections, $125,000; for 

 furniture and fixtures, $40,000; for heating and lighting, $13,000. 



PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS. 



The following disbursements were made from the appropriation for 

 preservation of collections for this year: $108,650.65 was paid for sal- 

 aries, or compensation ; $4,792.61 for supplies ; $1,638.92 for stationery ; 

 $4,803.82 for specimens; $1,573.68 for books, periodicals, etc. ; $643.05 

 for travel ; $2,759.04 for freight and cartage ; making a total expendi- 

 ture of $124,861.77 to May 1, 1890, and leaving an unexpended balance 

 of $138.23 to meet outstanding liabilities. 



The average amount paid on the monthly roll for this year is $9,054.22 ; 

 the smallest number of employes in any mouth is 130 for November, 

 1888 ; the largest, 167, in March, 1889, when extra service was required 

 on account of the crowds of strangers visiting the Museum ; the aver- 

 age number employed is 140. 



FURNITURE AND FIXTURES. 



From the appropriation for furniture and fixtures for the fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 1889, the following amounts have been disbursed: 

 $17,664.30 has been paid for services; for exhibition and storage cases, 

 with designs and drawings for the same, cabinets and storage bases, 

 book-cases, unit tables and boxes, $8,460.34 ; for fire-proof safe for dis- 

 bursing clerk, $412.12; frames, stands, double foldiug-screens, and mis- 

 cellaneous wood-work, $2,155.67; drawers, trays, and boxes, $1,518.33; 

 glass, $989.19; metal work (iron, tin, brass, etc.,) $1,652.58; office fur- 

 niture and chairs for halls, $549.55; cages for living animals, $160.80; 

 glass jars and containers for specimens, apparatus, etc., $695.41 ; cloth, 

 plush, etc. (linings for cases), $167.65; altering and re-enforcing cases, 

 $45; lumber, $2,153.67; tools, hardware, and appliances, $1,517.67; 

 paints, oils, varnish, brushes, etc., $865.86; slate, brick, stone, aud 

 plaster, $543.61; rubber goods, $421.88; traveling expenses, $21.47, 

 making a total of expenditures to May 1, 1890, of $39,995.10, and 

 leaving a balance of $4.90 to meet bills yet outstanding. 



