ACCOCNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



the BRITISH MUSEUM, and for Excavations, &■ c, in J.5«/rm, in the Financial Year ended on the SlstlMarcli l^s54- 



By Expenditure under the following Heads, &e. : 



1. Salaries ... as per explanatory statement below 



2. House Expenses - - - 



3. Purchases and Acquisitions 



4. Bookbinding, Cabinets, &c. 



ditto - 

 ditto - 

 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 thb 31st March 1854, carried to Account for 1854-5 



£. 



expenditure. 



grants. 





£. 



.V. 



d. 



£. 



-V. 



d. 



24,590 



10 



9 



2.5,050 



- 



- 



•3,480 



18 



. 9 



2,805 



- 



- 



12,839 



4 



4 



13,875 



- 



- 



9,608 



18 



7 



12,090 



- 



- 



3,013 



19 



JO 



3,4S0 



- 



- 



3-21 



10 



6 



300 



- 



- 



52,921 8 9 ' 57,690 - 

 1,112 15 9 j 1,500 - 



54,034 4 6 

 16,169 10 8 



70,203 15 2 



59,1&(» 



Explanatory Statemekt of the Expiheitujie in the above Account — continued. 



A. Bookbinding, Cabinets, &c. - 



^ Bookbinding tor Printed Books ... 

 „ Manuscripts - - ' - 



„ Prints and Drawings 



„ Secretary's and other Departments 



Preparing, &c. Natural History ... 

 Cabinets for Botany - . - . . 



Cabinets for Coins - - . . . 

 I Repairing and filing Antiquities ... 



Brought forward - - - 



£. s. d. 



6,803 3 5 



1,047 19 3 



149 7 6 



105 - 5 



992 - 7 



93 18 - 



69 1 9 



1,40S 7 8 



b. Printing C.atalocu£s, 

 Making Casts, &c. - 



/ Synopsis ---... 

 Catalogues of Zoology - - - - 

 Catalogues of Manuscripts ... 

 Preparing Catalogues of Fishes and Insects 

 Drawings from Antiquities ... 

 Catalogue! of Antiquities . _ . 



Tickets, Regulations, &c. . . _ 

 Moulds and Casts from Marbles 



366 9 11 



508 1 6 



68 10 - 



481 9 10 



231 16 - 



66 17 - 



48 17 3 



1,221 IS 4 



6. Miscellaneous 



- Law Expenses, Fees, &c. 



£. 



Excavations, &c., in Assyria, and Transport of Marbles, under Colonel Rawlinson 



X. i. J. 

 39,016 13 10 



9,668 18 7 



3,013 19 10 



321 16 6 



52,921 8 9 

 1,112 15 9 



176. 



Total Extikditure in the Year 1853/4 

 A 2 



£. 54,034 4 6 



