^"^^ GENERAL "^ 



BRITISH MUSEUM. 



- 7 JUL 1978 



^^ LIBRARY 



L— GENERAL ACCOUNT of all Receipts 

 and Payments, for the Year ending 

 25th March 1820. 



II. — Account of Books published. 

 III. — Account of the Book Fund. 

 IV. — Account of the Alexandrian MS. Fund. 



V. — Account of Purchases in Natural History. 



VI — General Account of Funds, for the Year 

 ending 25 th March 1821. 



VII. — Estimated Expenditure, for the Year 

 ending 25th March 1821. 



VIII. — Return of the Number of Persons ad- 

 mitted to view the Museum, from April 

 gth, 1813, to March 25th, 1820. 



I.— GENERAL ACCOUNT OF ALL RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS, 

 For the Year ending 25th March 1820. 



GENERAL RECEIPTS: 



Balance 26th March 1819 --.. 



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



Remaining Cash received for the Sale of Dr. Burney's Library - - - 

 Cash received for the Sale of printed Books ...--. 

 Profit on Exchequer Bills ...__.--- 



Parhamentury Grant of £. 10,01 8. 16. 8. - - - - - - Net 



Total - - - £. 



GENERAL PAYMENTS: 



Officers' Salaries ----------- 



Ditto - - for extra Services ..--.---- 

 Wages and Board Wages of Attendants and Servants .... 



Ditto - - for extra Services --------- 



Rent and Taxes ........... 



Bookbinding -....------- 



Stationary ............. 



Coals 



Candles and Lamplighting ...--.--- 



Incidents for sundry Articles of domestic use ------ 



Repairs not paid by the Board of Works ------- 



Fitting up Shelves, making Boxes, &c. for Purchases in Natural History 

 For additions to, and preserving of Natural History - - . - - 

 Purchases of Minerals and Fossils ..-.---- 



Messrs. May and Allewyn, for the Marble Apotheosis of Homer 



Printing Catalogue ; Drawings, Engravings, and Copperplate Printing of 



Gallery of Antiquities ---------- 



Purchase of Books --.--•----- 



The Alexandrian MS. 



Mrs. Dorville, for a Collection of Zoology, with Interest .... 



Total - - - £. 



Balance of 



Receipts 



Expenses 

 Surplus in hand - 



£.13,521 18 2 

 - 13,050 15 — 



£• 471 3 



167 — 8 



goo 



1,875 10 — 



495 



67 13 4 

 10,016 14 2 



13,521 18 2 



£. 



s. d. 



2,320 







1,360 







1,289 



2 3 



307 



10 4 



643 



3 10 



374 



6 _ 



181 



7 6 



315 



15 — 



104 



13 6 



194 



9 11 



639 



2 6 



151 



7 — 



834 



19 6 



128 



19 — 



1,000 





701 



18 — 



307 



16 2 



1,068 



14 6 



1,127 



10 — 



13=050 



15 — 



67. 



II.— ACCOUNT 



