KEPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 69 



PKESKRVATION OF COLLKCTIONS. 



The appropriation for preservation of collections for the fiscal year 

 ending- June 30, 1891, is $14:0,000, The disbursements are as follows : 



For salaries or compensation, 1117,300.52; for specimens, $0,211,405 

 for general supplies, $3,052,32; for stationery, $1,053.02; fin^ books and 

 periodicals, $825.40; for travel, $1,114.78; for freight and cartage, 

 $1,8(J2.57; a total of $132,020.01, which leaves an unexpended balance 

 of $7,979.99 to meet (mtstanding liabilities June 30, 1891, 



1 UHXITUKK AND riXTURES. 



The appropriation for furniture an<l fixtures, 1891, is $25,000; the 

 disbursements are as follows : 



Fin- salaries or compensation, $14,212.52; exhibition cases, with de- 

 signs and drawings fin' same, $1,331 ; drawers, trays, boxes, etc., $448.08; 

 frames, stands, miscellaneous woodwork, $330.52; office furniture and 

 other fixtures, $588.22; lumber, paints, oils, brushes, $1,929.45; tools, 

 glass, hard ware, brackets, and interior fittings for cases, $1,930,49 ; ap});i- 

 ratus, glass jars, and vials, $140.42; plumbing, tin, lead, etc., $282.72; 

 rubber tubing for rendering cases insect proof, $105.04; traveling ex- 

 l)euses, $5; making a total of $21,309.46, and leaving a balance on hand 

 of $3,090,54 to meet outstanding liabilities fi>r cases, plate glass, lumber, 

 etc. 



Detailed list of cases, unit tables, fixtures, etc., made or furnished durinjjf the year 

 by persons outside the Museum: 



Three nuihogany wall cases, $730; 2 mahogauy double-width cases (lor lay fig- 

 ures), $375; 2 uuit tables, special size, $108; 1 mahogany case for shrike group, $50; 

 mahogany cornice for Liverpool case, $15; 1 pine pedestal and shade, $17; designs 

 and drawings for cases, $36; drawers, trays, boxes, etc., $448.08; frames, stands, 

 miscellaneous woodwork, $330.52; office furniture and other fixtures, $588.22, 



Liimber, needed supplies, fittings, etc., have been bought as follows: Lumber, 

 $1,364.05; glass, $954.56; hardware and fittings for cases, $707.13; cloth, cotton, 

 etc., linings for cases, $108.03; apparatus, $84.50; glass jars and vials, $61,92; tools, 

 $73.67; paints, oils, brushes, $565.40; tin, lead, etc,, $268.48: rubber tubing for 

 rendering cases insect proof, $105.04; iron brackets for cases, $87,10: plumbing, 

 $14.24; traveling expenses, $5. 



Cases made in the Museum workshops during the year 1891: 



Two mahogany table cases; 3 mahogany table cases with sloping tops; 7 walnut 

 table cases; 6 book cases; 13 half unit insect-proof cases; 4 insect ^iroof storage 

 cases, two of them with 50 compartments each; 13 tops for cases, sloping, upright, 

 etc.; 9 card catalogue cases. 



Cases repaired, remodeled, extended, and made insect proof by lining them with 

 metal and fitting the doors with rubber tul)ing: 



One wall case, department of vertebrate fossils, extended; 6 half unit cases, de- 

 partment of raanniuils, made insact proof; 53 quarter unit cases, department of 

 ornitliology, made insect proof; 5 table cases, department of botany, made insect 

 proof; 3 table cases for special deposit. Department of Agriculture, made insect 

 proof; 1 table case, department of botany, repaired; 1 Kensington case, remodeled; 

 1 case for domestic fowls, remodeled. 



Screens, frames, unit boxes, drawers, dia])hragms, bases, trays, etc., maib; in the 

 Museum workshops during the year 1890-'91 : 



