34 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



The appropriation for Furniture and Fixtures for the year ending 

 June 30, 1887, was $40,000. 



Out of this sum there was expended $18,603.80 for exhibition cases 

 of different designs, screens, wing-frames, insect-boxes, blocks, tablets, 

 bird-stands, drawings for cases, furniture for offices, glass, brackets, 

 locks, and other necessary fittings and appliances. 



During the same time $2,139.04 was spent for lumber ; $598.35 was 

 spent for paints, oils, brushes, etc.; $161.40 was spent for glass vials 

 and containers for specimens ; $191.41 was spent for apparatus, appli- 

 ances, etc., for laboratory, and exhibition halls ; $941.28 was spent for 

 miscellaneous purposes ; making a total of $22,635.28. 



The following fittings, appliances, etc., were made or furnished dur- 

 ing the year by persons outside the Museum : 



10 mahogany unit table cases $750. 00 



36 mahogany table cases (sloping) 1,475. 25 



10 table cases with storage base 1,295. 00 



1 mahogany table case (special) 125. 00 



16 mahogany Kensington cases.., 1, 040. 00 



20 mahogany Kensington cases 1, 900. 00 



6 mahogany wall cases 1,489.00 



20 pine unit tables 504.40 



1 large walnut cabinet 250. 00 



2 cherry cabinets 250. 00 



4 white-pine herbarium cases 236. 00 



4 standard book-cases 64. 00 



5 white-pine wood cut cases 47.50 



1 cherry case 15. 00 



4 mahogany table screens 288. 00 



1 half-unit ebonized table screen 45. 00 



102 oak frames 49.25 



32 ebonized wing- frames 82. 50 



5 mahogany wing-frames 15. 00 



28, 538 jiasteboard trays, boxes, and covers 543. 87 



1, 664 white-pine blocks, tablets, etc 124. 80 



180 wire bird- stands 14. 58 



222 insect-boxes 286.25 



989 lights of glass — plate, crystal, and hammered 3,975.98 



963 locks and rods 1,312.85 



254 brackets 23.75 



1, 985 file-holders 223.91 



Furniture, etc., for offices 743. 63 



Drawings for cases, etc 130. 00 



Traveling expenses to inspect cases, etc 11.86 



Interior, and other fittings 1,266.42 



There was also expended out of this appropriation for wages of 

 mechanics and laborers, salaries of property clerk, copyists, and other 

 necessary employes, $17,289.75, leaving an unexpended balance of 

 $74.97. 



The average monthly roll on furniture and fixtures was $1,440.81. 

 The greatest number of employes in any month was 27, the smallest 

 20; the average number being 25. 



