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



BRITISH MUSEUM for the Financial Year ended on the 31st March 1864. 



By Expenditure under the following Heads, viz.: 



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



2. House Expenses ditto - - - 



3. Purchases and Acquisitions - - ditto - - - 

 Special Purchases and Acquisitions • ditto - - - 



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



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



6. Buildings, Furniture, Fittings, kc.,'\ ,. 



including Architect's Commission -/ 



7. Miscellaneous ----- ditto - - - 



- Expenditure for publishing Cuneiform Inscriptions 



By Balance on the 31st March 1864, carried to Account for 1864/5, viz. : 

 ' Specially applicable to Establishment -£.28,434 15 8 



10,592 17 4f 



39,027 13 



Ditto - ditto - to Buildings, &c. 



Ditto - ditto - for Publication of the Cuneiform In- 

 scriptions .-----.. 



447 ;i 



expenditure. 



s. d. 



44,505 10 



2,810 1 



18,476 4 



2,097 19 



10,255 5 



1,496 6 



15,581 7 



61 15 



95,284 10 9 

 216 4 - 



95,500 14 9 



39,474 16 8 



134,975 11 5 



ESTIMATE, 1863/4. 



£. 



45,842 

 2,845 



19,335 

 675 



10,220 

 1,690 



14,184 



50 



94,841 - - 



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



Brought forward 



4. Bookbinding, Preparing, &c. 



Bookbinding : Printed Books 

 ,, Manuscripts 



,, Prints and Drawings 



Preparing, &c. : Zoology 

 „ Geology 



,, Mineralogy - 



„ Botany 



- Repairing and arranging Antiquities 



7,001 12 10 

 800 - U 

 199 7 11 

 604 18 9 

 272 6 6 

 203 9 7 

 18 - - 



1,155 9 - 



£. s. d. 

 67,889 15 9 



5. Printing Catalogues, &c. - 



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 



6. Buildings, Fusniture, Fit- 

 tings, &c., including Archi- 

 tect's Commission 



7. Miscellaneous 



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

 Fittings and Furniture for Department of Printed Books - 



Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 



ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 



Architect's Commission • 



Manuscripts 

 Mineralogy and Geology 

 Zoology - - . 

 Botany . - _ 



Antiquities 

 Coins and Medals 

 Prints and Drawings - 



Law Expenses 



91 - 10 



140 16 8 



588 !0 1 



351 1 6 



no 13 9 



200 15 - 



13 8 7 



5,791 18 

 5,691 3 



140 13 



619 9 



523 17 



116 5 



1,788 16 11 



30 1 3 



248 6 - 



730 16 8 



Printing, &c. the Cuneiform iNscRiprioNs 



£■ 



10,255 5 6 



1,496 G 5 



15,581 7 10 

 61 15 3 



95,284 10 9 

 216 4 - 



95,500 14 9 



t The Building Accounts for Christraaa quarter, 1863, and Lady-day quarter, 1864, have to be paid from this balance. 



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