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



BRITISH MUSEUM for the Financial Year ended on the 31st March 1863. 



By Expenditure under the following Heads, viz. 



1. Salaries 



2. House Expenses - - - - 



3. Purchases and AcauisiTioNS 

 Special Purcuases and Acquisitions 



4. Bookbinding, Cabinets, &c. 

 6. Printing Catalogues, &c. - 



6. Buildings, Furniture, Fittings, &c.,'( ,. 



including Architect's Commission -/ 



7. Miscellaneous ----- ditto 



- as per Explanatory Statement below* 

 - ditto - - - 

 ditto - - - 

 ditto . - - 

 ditto - - - 

 ditto - - - 



Expenditure for publishing Cuneiform Inscriptions 



By Balance on the 31st March 1863, carried to Account for 1863/4, viz. : 



Specially applicable to Establishment - £.27,686 11 11 

 Ditto - ditto - to Buildings, &c. - 14,990 5 2f 



42,576 17 1 



expenditure. 



43,487 

 2,906 



21,527 

 1,008 



10,439 



1,912 14 

 12,945 17 



1,762 2 



s. d. 



1 



7 

 6 

 9 

 11 

 3 



95,978 14 3 

 176 9 - 



96,155 3 3 



Ditto - ditto 

 scriptions 



for Pnblicauon of the Cuneiform In- 



663 7 8 



43,240 4 9 



139,395 8 



estimate, 1862/3. 



£. s. d. 



44,421 - - 



3,160 - - 



22,445 - - 



2,211 - - 



10,390 - - 



2,000 - - 



17,435 - - 



1,250 - - 



103,312 - - 



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



Brought forward 



4. Bookbinding, Preparing, Sec. 



Bookbinding : Printed Books .._-... 



„ Manuscripts --_.... 



„ Prints and Drawings -.-.-. 



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



„ Geology .-.-.. - . 



„ iUineralogy (including 231. 9 s. 6 d. for Moulds and 



Casts of Meteorites, and for cutting and polishing 



specimens). 



„ Botany ........ 



Repairing and arranging Antiquities ...... 



£. s. 



6,999 18 



1,099 15 



199 19 



702 4 



95 19 



4 



9 

 3 

 2 

 4 

 119 12 10 



33 



l.lf 



5. Printing Catalogues, Sec. 



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 

 Ditto - - ditto Coins 



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

 Fittings and Furniture for J!)epartraent of Printed Books - 



6. Buildings, Furniture, Fit- , 

 TINGS, &c., including Archi- \ 

 tect's Commission 



7. Miscellaneous 



Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 



ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 



Architect's Commission 



Manuscripts 

 Mineralogy and Geology 

 Zoology ... 

 Botany . - - 



Anliquities 

 Coins and Medals 

 Prints and Drawings - 



Law Expenses, &c. . - . - - 



Extra Expenses during International Exhibition 



452 



17 



5 



1 



11 



2 



992 



12 



_ 



115 



17 



_ 



136 



18 



6 



109 



10 



2 



43 



8 



_ 



5,185 13 6 



3,134 18 2 



187 2 5 



1,262 17 6 



501 10 - 



135 1 10 



1,555 13 10 



48 3 6 



337 15 3 



597 1 5 



221 19 4 

 1,530 3 3 



Printing, &c. the Cuneiform Inscriptions 



£. s. d. 

 68,928 17 11 



10.439 1 11 



1,912 14 3 



12,945 17 7 

 1,752 2 7 



05,978 14 3 

 176 9 - 



96,155 3 3 



^55- 



t The Building Accounts for Christmas quarter, 1862, and Lady -day quarter, 1863, have to be paid from this balance- 



A 2 



