ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C., OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



the BRITISH MUSEUM, and for Excavations, &c., in Assyria, in the Financial Year ended on the 31st March 1 853. 



By Expenditure under the following Heads, &c. : 



1 . Salaries - - - as per explanatory statement below 



2. House Expenses ----- ditto - - - - 



3. Purchases and Acquisitions - - - ditto - - - - 



4. Bookbinding, Cabinets, &c. - - - ditto - - - - 

 6. Printing Catalogues, making Casts, &c. ditto - - - - 

 6. Miscellaneous ----- ditto - - - - 



By Expenditure for Excavations, &c., in Assyria, and Transport of Marbles - 



By Balance on the 3Ist March 1853, carried to Account for 1853-4: 



expenditure. 



grants. 



£. s. 



d. 



£. 5. d. 



24,256 10 



9 



24,618 - - 



2,345 13 



6 



2,345 - - 



14,977 7 



5 



15,385 - - 



7,781 - 



6 



8,395 - - 



2,878 15 



8 



2,900 - - 



113 10 



2 



300 - - 



62,352 18 



- 



63,943 - - 



2,730 10 



10 



2,966 - - 



55,083 8 

 10,960 9 



10 

 1 



56,909 - - 





£. 66,043 17 11 



Explanatory Statement of the Expenditure in the above Account — continued. 



Brought forward - 

 £. 



4. BoocBiNDiNO, Cabinets, &c. - 



Bookbinding for Printed Books . . . - 

 „ Manuscripts .... 



„ Prints and Drawings ... 



„ Secretary's and other Departments - 



Preparing, &c. Natural History . . . - 



Cabinets for Botany --.-.. 



Cabinets for Coins -...-. 



Repairing and fixing Antiquities . . . - 



6. Printing Catalogues, 

 making Casts, &c. 



Synopsis .----- 

 Catelogues of Zoology .... 

 Preparing Catalogues of Fishes and Insects 

 Drawings from Antiquities . . - 

 Catalogues of Antiquities ... 

 Tickets, Regulations, &c. - . - 

 Moulds and Casts from Marbles 

 Catalogue of Manuscripts ... 

 Preparing and Printing Palimpsest Homer 



s. d. 



3,504 3 1 



1,012 10 6 



149 14 10 



214 16 10 



1,167 19 - 



46 19 - 



104 14 10 



1,580 3 5 



235 19 



6 



544 2 



9 



526 6 



2 



340 4 



- 



303 - 



- 



59 16 



- 



751 1 



9 



6 9 



- 



111 16 



6 



6. Miscellaneous 



Law Expenses, Fees, &c. • 



Excavations, &c. , in Assyria, and Transport of Marbles, under A. H. Layard, Esq. 



„ Colonel Rawlinson 



£. 



-iE. 1,973 13 - 

 756 17 10 



£. i. d. 

 41,579 U 8 



7,781 



2,878 15 8 



113 10 3 



Total Extenbiture in the Year 1852/3 



62,352 18 - 



2,730 10 10 



55.083 8 10 



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