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



I.— AN ACCOUNT of the Income and Expenditure of the 



£. s. d. 

 27,586 11 11 



14,990 5 2 



To Balance on the 1st April 1863, viz.: 



On Account of the Votes for the Establishment 

 Ditto - ditto - for Buildings, &c. - 



On Account of the Vote for Cuneiform Inscriptions 



~ Amount Granted for the Year 1863/4, per Appropriation Act, 26 & 27 

 Vict. c. 99 



Sums Received under the following Heads in aid of the Parliamentary 

 Gi'ant for the Establishment, viz. : 



Dividends on Stock, 30,000 1., 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 



Proceeds of the Sale of Guide-books - - - . - 



Ditto other Museum Publications - - - . 



£. s. d. 



42,576 17 1 

 663 7 8 



£. s. d. 



900 - - 

 110 13 7 

 183 13 1 



43,240 4 9 



90,541 - - 



1,194 6 8 



134,975 11 5 



*EXPJ.ANATORY STATEMENT of the Expendituke in the above Ac 



1. Salaries 



Officers ... 



Assistants - . . . 



Transcribers 



Attendants and Servants 

 Police . . - . 

 Persons paid daily or weekly 

 Attendance on Stoves 

 ^ Retired Allowances 



2. House Expenses 



(Rates and Taxes - 

 Household Implements 

 Coals, Coke, and Fagots 

 Candles, Oil, and Oas 

 Stationery - - - 



Incidents - . - 



3. Purchases ANDAcauisiTiONs\ 



Printed Books .--... 

 Manuscripts ------ 



Books for Department of MSS. ... 



Minerals and Meteorites ..... 



Books and Binding for Department of Minerals 

 FossiLs ----... 



Books and Binding for the Department of Geology 

 Zoological Specimens . - - - - 



Books and Binding for the Department of Zoology 

 Botanical Specimens ..... 



Books and Binding for the Department of Botany 

 Oriental, British, and Mediaeval Antiquities 

 Greek and Roman Antiquities ... 



Coins and JMedals ..... 



Books and Binding for the Departments of Coins and Antiquities 

 Prints and Drawings -..--... 



Books for the Department of Prints and Drawings 

 Freight and Carriage ..... 



SrECiJii. Purchases and Acqui- 

 sitions . . . . . 



Meteorite from IMelbourne ........ 



Excavations in the Cyrenaica ...-_.. 



Antique Bronze Lamp, found in Parisf -.-... 



Large and important collection of Human and Animal remains, Weapons, 

 and Implements in Bone and Flint, from a cavern at Bruniqual, south 

 of France t---. ...... 



8,940 



14,062 



3,118 



12,003 



611 



2,253 



725 



2,189 



16 5 



16 5 



18 8 



12 10 



- 2 



14 6 



11 5 



436 4 11 

 107 17 9 

 591 9 6 

 423 19 - 

 610 2 2 

 640 7 9 



10,002 13 4 



1,572 9 7 



49 3 - 



799 18 6 



29 17 11 



780 18 11 



29 15 1 



1,009 11 1 



24 17 - 



144 14 3 



36 5 - 



504 11 4 



500 - - 



1,449 9 



18 8 



1,091 7 



12 18 



419 6 



11 



300 - 



97 19 



700 - 



1,000 - 



44,505 10 5 



2,810 1 1 



18,476 4 8 



2,097 19 7 



Carried forward - • - £, 

 t Provision has been made for this expenditure in the Estimates for 1864/5. (See page 8 of this paper.) 



67,889 15 9 



