ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



the BRITISH MUSEUM, and for Excavations, &c., in Assyria, in the Financial Year ended on the 31st March 1855 



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 - - - - 



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



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



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

 By Balance on the 31st March 1855, carried to Account for 1855-6 



expenditure. 



grants. 





£. 



s. 



d. 



£. 



s. 



d. 



25,281 



14 



3 



25,350 



- 



- 



2,525 



7 



- 



2,850 



- 



- 



15,861 



11 



11 



15,15-5 



- 



- 



11,091 



5 



7 



10,640 



- 



- 



1,529 



9 



7 



2,780 



_ 



_ 



305 17 6 



56,595 5 10 57,075 

 2,451 19 2 1,500 



300 - 



59,047 5 - 

 15,642 4 5 



58,575 - - 



74,689 9 5 



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



Brought forward . . - 

 £. s. d. 



[' Bookbinding for Printed Books 6,598 14 H 



Manuscripts ....... 1,058 11 7 



Prints and Drawings ...... 100 10 - 



Secretary's and other Departments - . - . 187 193 



4. Bookbinding, Cabinets, &c. . ' Preparing, &c. Natural History 787 9 4 



Cabinets for Botany ......... 88 12- 



Cabinets for Coins ......... 36 9- 



Repairing and fixing Antiquities ....... 1 ,933 6 4 



. Expenses of Photographic Room - - - . . . - 299 13 2 



5. Printing Catalogues, 

 Making Casts, &c. - 



-< 



Synopsis ...... 



Catalogues of Zoology .... 



Catalogues of Manuscripts ... 

 Preparing Catalogues of Fishes and Insects 

 Catalogues of and Drawings from Antiquities 

 Tickets, Regulations, &c. ... 



Moulds and Casts from Marbles - 



168 10 



8 



484 17 



7 



380 9 



6 



13 - 



- 



152 13 



8 



329 18 



2 



£. £. d. 



43,668 13 2 



11,091 5 7 



6. Miscellaneous 



Law Expenses, Fees, &c. 



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



1.529 9 



305 17 G 



184. 



Total Expenditure in the Year 1854/5 

 A 2 



£. 



56,595 5 10 

 2,451 19 2 



59,047 6 - 



