45 



The followdug charges were iucun-ecl on accouut of this vote 



(1) Labour 81,043.24 



(2) Factory Eugiiieer. ahneirahs, bird cabi- 



nets ami office furniture ... ... 4U8.75 



(3) Timber 359.1U 



(4) Supplying trap-door and hoisting tackle 



to upper floor of Museum ,., ... 69. OS 



(5) Iron work fur cases ... ... ... GO. 00 



(6) Safe 1(50.00 



(7) Shipping and handling charges ... . 9.83 



(8) Glass-topped boxes 272.66 



Total ... .1^2,472.66 



REVENUE. 



Including a balance of .^14.46 from 1904, the revenue realised 

 from work done for private persons and sale of surplus specimens was 

 >?370.88. 



Under authority, previously obtained, .s384.67 was expended, prin- 

 cipally on freights on specimens sent t(» England for examination, on 

 ethnographical collections and on expenses connected with the Gunoug 

 Talian expedition, leaving a debit balance carried to the 1906 account 

 of 813.79. 



VISITORS. 



A large portion of the Museum was closed throughout the year 

 and the entire building was closed from the 8th September. Notwith- 

 standing this, the total attendance for the first eight months of the 

 year amounted to 20,930 compared with 23.219 for the corresponding- 

 period of 1904, but it shoidd be pointed out that these figures are 

 merely recorded by a native watchman and, as he was under no Euro- 

 pean supervision from May to September of 1905. the figures should 

 probably read considerably higher. 



Of the total number of visitors the percentage distribution accord- 

 ing to race works out as follows : 



First t'iiilit inuiiiji.'?. 



Europeans 

 Eurasians 

 Bengalis ,., 

 Tamils 

 Malays . , , 

 Chinese . . 



Total ... 100.0 ... 100.0 ... 100.0 



