ACCOUNTS OF BRITISH MUSEUM; 1818. 



II.— ACCOUNT OF BOOKS PUBLISHED: 



PAYMENTS: 



Printing Vols. V and VI of Catalogue, and Expenses of Sale - £. 353 16 — 

 Drawings, Engravings, and Copperplate Printing, Gallery of 



Antiquities -- 9:26 lo 2 



RECEIPTS: 



By the Sale of Description of Gallery - - - - -£. 19316 



By Catalogue of Printed Books - - - - -- 59 1 — 



By Sale of Synopsis -------- 193 7 2 



By Sale of Waste Paper ------- 196 4 6 



By Cash refunded for Packing Cases, &c. - - - - 75 



Applied to General Purposes - - - £.71614 2 



1,280 6 2 



III.— ACCOUNT OF THE BOOK FUND: • 



Part of the Parlianaentaiy Grant for the year 1818, allotted to the purchase of 

 Books --..-.._-._. 



Amount of Purchases in the year ending 25th March 1818 - - _ - 



Excess above the Grant - - £. 



Expended for General Purposes 



Part of the Parliamentary Grant for the year 1818, allotted to Natural History 

 Amount of Purchases in the year ending 25th March 1818 - - - - 



Excess above the Grant - - £. 



£. s. d. 



1,000 



1,039 13 2 



39 13 2 



IV.— ACCOUNT OF THE ALEXANDRIAN MS. FUND : 



Part of the Parliamentary Grant, for the year 1818, allotted to repay the Sums 

 borrowed from this Fund --------- 



Expended in the year ending 25th March 1818, on account of copying and 

 printing the said MS. ---------- 



£. s. d. 



2,807 11 3 



944 13 — 



1,862 18 3 



v.— ACCOUNT OF PURCHASES IN NATURAL HISTORY: 



250 



460 7 8 



210 7 8 



VI.— GENERAL ACCOUNT OF FUNDS, AND ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE, 



For the Year ending 25th March 1819. 



£. s. d. 



Balance in hand _---._ 

 One Year's Dividend on £. 30,000 Reduced Annuities 



731 3 4 

 900 



i;63i 3 4 



Note. — The Duplicates which are about to be sold, are expected to pro- 

 duce the Sum of £.1,000; which Sum has been engaged for the Purchase 

 of the Ginguence Library at Paris. 



The Duplicates of Dr. Burney's Library, which cannot be sold before 

 the year 1819, are expected to produce a Sum of between Three and Four 

 Thousand Pounds ; and will be brought into the Account as a Deduction 

 from the Grant of Parliament for that year. 



