86 REPORT—1896. 
APPENDIX. 
PHYSIKALISCH-TECHNISCHE REICHSANSTALT. 
I. Department (Physical). 
Marks. 
1. Value of land (originally presented by W. S. ae asi : 500,000 
2, Buildings, &c.:(a@) Laboratory building . i . 387,000 
(b) Engine house , : - : 50,000 
(c) Administrat building : < - 100,000 
(d) President’s house. . : . Be ee 
(e) Gardens, drainage, kc. . : -, Oei2 
(f) Paving adjacent streets . , 5 30,274 
(g) Accumulator house . : : 5 8,500 
685.000 
3. Furniture, &c., for (a), (6), and (c) s 5 F c . . 68,000 
4. Machines, engines, apparatus of allsorts . ; . ; - 82,310 
IT. Department (Technical). 
Marks. 
1. Value of land. . 4 s ; 5 373,106 
2, Buildings: (a) Principal laboratory building - - 922,000 
(d) Smaller ditto : - . 218,000 
(c) Engine house oo - - - 180,000 
(d) House for officials . F Fi é - 140,000 
(e) Additional structures, kc. . 4 . 348,000 
1,808,000 
In budget 1895-96 reduced by . ; 5 47,500 
—=-—— * 1760;500 
3. Furniture, &c., for these buildings ‘ ; A 5 , 5 81,000 
4. Engines, machines, instruments, &c. . - A : 6 0 363,690 
3,904,106 
In round numbers—£200,000 sterling capital expenditure. 
Yearly Expenses. 
. Personal: Salaries, remunerations, &c. ¥ 172,557 
a Repairs to buildings, cost of administration, experimental work . 115,000 
287,000 
In round numbers —£15,000 sterling a year. 
Uniformity of Size of Pages of Scientifie Societies’ Publications — 
Report of the Committee, consisting q of Professor Sitvanus P. 
THompson (Chairman), Dr. G. H. Bryan, Dr. C. V. Burton, 
Mr. R. T. GLazEsroox, Professor A. W. RUCKER, Dr. G. JoHn- 
STONE Sroney, Mr. James SwINBURNE (Secretary). 
Your Committee has prepared a circular for distribution to the various 
learned societies and academies, pointing out the desirability of all pro- 
ceedings and transactions being issued in one or other of the standard 
sizes recommended in the British Association report of last year. 
Upon the printing and postage of this circular, which will be dis- 
tributed early in the winter session, the balance of the Association’s 
grant will be expended. 
A proposal having been made by the Council of the Royal Society last 
year to change the sizes of its ‘Proceedings’ and ‘ Transactions’ to royal 
8vo, thus not only spoiling the historic continuity of its publications, but 
