ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



BRITISH MUSPUM for the Financial Year ended on the 31st March 1861. 



EXPENDITURE. 



By Expenditure under the following Heads, viz.: 



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



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



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



Special Purchases ... - ditto - - - - 



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



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



6. Buildings, Furniture, Fittings, &c., including Architect's 



Commission ---------- 



7. Miscellaneous 



- ditto 



— Expenditure for publishing Cuneiform Inscriptions - - - - 



£. 



— Ditto, for Drawings at the Woodburn Sale of the Lawrence Collection 



I- Ditto, for various. Works executed prior to 31 March 1860, including the" 

 '■ Architect's Commission thereon, towards which the Commissioners of 

 Works and Public Buildings contributed the sum of 5,785 Z. lis. 3d., 

 being the balance unexpended of Grants for British Museum (Buildings), 

 and which receipt was shown in the Account rendered to Parliament for 

 1859/60 -...-, 



B^ Balance ontheSIst March 1861, carried to Account for 1861/2, viz. : 

 Specially applicable to Estabhshment - £.28,126 12 7 

 Ditto - ditto - to Buildings, &c. - 4,402 16 4 



32,529 8 11 



Ditto - ditto - for Publication of the Cuneiform In- 

 scriptions ------.. 740 6 8 



£. s. d. 

 38,685 3 7 



grants. 



2,924 



21,347 

 2,800 



10,803 



3 2 

 5 10 



4 10 



2,110 19 7 



13,808 1 7 

 33 9 6 



92,412 8 1 

 364 1 - 



92,776 9 1 

 2,278 10 6 



7,676 3 5 



£. X. d. 



39,084 - - 



3,350 - - 



21,532 - - 



3,750 - - 



11,220 - - 



3,080 - - 



19,984 - - 



150 - - 



102,150 - - 



33,269 15 7 



135,995 18 7 



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



Brought forward - - - 

 £. s. d. 



4-. BoocBiNDiKG, Cabinets, &c. 



Bookbinding : Printed Books . . . . . 



„ Manuscripts - - - 



„ Prints and Drawings . . . . 



„ Principal Librarian's and other Departments 



Preparing, &c. : Zoology ..-.-- 

 „ Geology ------ 



„ Mineralogy ------ 



„ Botany ------ 



Cabinets for Coins --_..-- 



Repairing Antiquities ------- 



5. Printing Catalogues, &c. - ( 



P 



Guide-books and Synopsis ------ 



Catalogues of Manuscripts ...--- 

 Preparing and Printing Catalogues of Zoology 

 Catalogues of, and Drawings from, Antiquities 

 Tickets, Regulations, &c. ------ 



Moulds and Casts from Marbles, &c. - . . - 



General Repairs, and Maintenance of Museum Buildings, &c. 

 Fittings and Furniture for Department of Printed Books 



7,500 15 



900 - 



99 19 



97 - 

 707 10 

 176 4 



79 11 

 62 5 



98 16 

 1,091 1 



10 



6. Buildings, Furniture, Fit- 

 tings, &c., including Archi- ( 

 tact's Commission 



7. Miscellaneous - - - Law Expenses, &c. 

 PaiMriNG, &c. the Cuneiform Inscriptions 



Ditto 



. 



ditto 



- 



. 



Manuscripls 



- 



Ditto 



. 



ditto 



. 



- 



Mineralogy and Geology 



- 



Ditto 



. 



ditto 



- 



- 



Zoology - - _ 



- 



Ditto 



- 



ditto 



- 



- 



Botany - - - 



- 



Ditto 



- 



ditto 



. 



- 



Antiquities 



. 



Ditto 

 rchitect 



sCoi 



ditto 

 nmission - 



- 



- 



Prints and Drawings - 



: 



169 7 7 

 29 5 - 

 998 3 7 

 247 9 7 

 175 - - 

 491 13 10 



6,430 5 2 

 3,100 5 IX 

 204 - 1 

 964 19 - 

 590 9 3 

 116 16 6 

 2,572 18 10 

 170 1 10 

 658 5 - 



£. s. d. 

 65,656 12 7 



10.803 4 10 



2,110 19 7 



13,808 I 7 



33 9 6 



92,412 8 1 

 364 1 - 



92,776 9 I 



220. 



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