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



ESTIMATE, 1860-61. 



VI. — AN ESTIMATE of the Sum required to defray the Salaries and Expenses of the British Museum, 

 including also the Amount required for Buildings, Furniture, Fittings, &c., (heretofore forming a 

 distinct item in the Civil Service Estimates, Class IV., as British Museum Buildings), for the Year 

 ending on the 31st day of March 1861. 



£.100,850. 



AN ESTIMATE of the Sum required to defray the Salaries and Expenses of the British Museum, including 

 also the Amount required for Buildings, Furniture, Fittings, &c., for the Year ending on the 31st day of 

 March 1861, under the following Heads : 



I. Salaries : 



1. Officers of the Ordinary Establishment 



2. Assistants ------ 



3. Transcribers . _ - - - 



4. Attendants and Servants * - 



5- Police 



6. Persons paid daily or weekly f 



7. Attendance on Stoves - - - - 



8. Retired Allowances - - - ■ 



II. House Expenses 



1. Rates and Taxes - - - 



2. Household Implements 



3. Coals, Coke and Fagots 



4. Candles, Oil and Gas - 



5. Stationery - - - - 



6. Incidents - - - - 



Required for the Year 

 1 860-61. 



III. Purchases and Acquisitions : 



1. Printed Books 



2. Manuscripts ------- 



3. Books for the Department of Manuscripts 



4. Minerals -------w 



5. Books for the Department of Minerals 



6. Fossils 



7. Books for the Department of Geology - - - 



8. Zoological Specimens ------ 



9. Books for the Department of Zoology - - . 



10. Boranlcal Specimens ------ 



11. Books for the Department of Botany - . . 



12. Coins and Antiquities ------ 



13. Books for the Department of Antiquities 



14. Prints and Drawings ------ 



15. Books for the Department of Prints and Drawings 



16. Freisrht and Carria£i;e -----. 



Special Purchases : 



17. Coins at Lord North wick's Sale - 



18. Ryder Collection of MSS. - 



19. Greac Collection of Minerals 



Carried forward 



8,050 



11,500 



2,600 



11,500 



700 



2,270 



900 



1,561 



10,000 



2,600 



30 



800 



20 



800 



20 



1,500 



25 



150 



25 



3,000 



50 



2,000 



12 



500 



£. 



d. 



400 - 



200 - 



800 - 



350 - 



800 - 



800 - 



950 - 



800 - 



2,000 - 



39,084 - - 



3,350 - - 



21,532 - - 



3,750 - 



Granted for tte Year 

 18 5 9-60. 



8,050 



10,800 



2,300 



11,200 



800 



1,900 



900 



1,550 



370 - 



400 - 



900 - 



350 - 



800 - 



800 - 



10,000 



2,500 



50 



800 



20 



800 



20 



1,500 



25 



150 



25 



3,000 



50 



2,000 



15 



1,000 



67,716 - - 



37,500 - - 



3,620 - - 



21,955 - - 



63,075 - - 



* Provision has been mvie in this Vote for a Clerk of the Work?, who will for the future be engaged and remunerate'! by the Trustees at a salary of 

 120 Z. per annum, with apartments, &c. in the'Museum. The duties of this office have been hitherto performed by a person attached to the establishment 

 of the Office of Works, with a salary of 150/., and an allowance for house rent, &c. of 54 Z. 12 s. per annum, provided for in the Civil Service Estimates, 

 Class IJ., in aldilion to which the Trustees paid him an annual gratuity of 31 I. 10s. 



t 270?. of this am r)unt are for the wages of four Day Watchmen, formerly included in the Grant for British Museum (Buildings), Civil Service 

 Estimates, Class IV. 



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