ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Expenses of the BRITISH MUSEUM, and for publishing Cuneiform Inscriptions, in the Financial Year 

 31st March 1859. 





By Expenditure under the following Heads, &c. : 



4 



expenditure. 



GRANTS. 





£. 



s. 



d. 



£. S. 



d. 





1. Salaries ... as per Explanatory Statement below* - 



35,004 



11 



2 



36,025 - 



- 





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



- 



3,253 



2 



5 



3,850 - 



- 





3. Purchases and Acquisitions - - ditto - - - 



- 



19,830 



2 



3 



21,650 - 



- 





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



- 



13,116 



15 



11 



15,450 - 



- 





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



- 



1,717 



16 



8 



3,400 - 



- 





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





81 



4 



10 



200 - 



- 





73,003 



13 



3 



80,575 - 



- 





By Expenditure for publishing- Cuneiform Inscriptions - - - 



£. 



496 



15 



4 















73,500 



8 



7 







By Balance on the 31st March 1859, carried to Account for 



Establishment, 1859/60 ^ - - £. 23,844 



3 3 















Ditto - ditto - Cuneiform Inscriptions - - 1,397 



6 8 



25,241 



9 



11 









£. 







98,741 



18 



6 





4. Bookbinding, Cabinets, &c. 



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



Brought forward - 



£. ». d. 



Bookbinding for Printed Books - - . . . . - 8,181 5 5 



Manuscripts ---.... 742 11 1 



Prints and Drawings - - - . . - 148 42 



Secretary's and other departments - - - - 60 141 



Preparing, &c. Natural History - - - . . . . 1,201146 



Cabinets for Coins --..-.-, . 43 96 



Repairing and fixing Antiquities --..-.. 1 ,686 8 3 



Expenses of Photographic Room - • - . . . . 1,052 9 



5. Printino Catalog ves, &i;. - ( 



Guide and Synopsis »- - - ' - 

 Catalogues of Zoology - - - . - 

 Catalogues of, and Drawings from, Antiquities 

 Tickets, Regulations, &c. . - - . 



. Moulds and Casts ft-om Marbles, &c. 



348 16 2 



1,066 9 8 



87 6 6 



99 10 11 



115 13 5 



6. Miscellaneous 



Law Expenses, &c. 



Printing, &c. the Cuneiform Inscriptions 



Total Expenditure in the Year 1858/9 



£. s. d. 



58,087 15 10 



13,116 15 11 



1,717 16 8 



31 4 10 



73,003 13 3 

 496 15 4 



73,600 8 7 



36 — Sess. 2. 



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