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



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



To Balance on the 1st April 1864, viz.: 



« 



On Account of the Votes for the Establishment 

 Ditto - ditto - for Buildings, &c. - 



£. s. d. 



- 28,434 15 8 



- 10,592 17 4 



On Account of the Vote for Cuneiform Inscriptions 



Amount Granted for the Year 1864/5, per Appropriation Act 27 & 28 

 Vict. cap. 73 



Sums Received under the following Heads in aid of the Parliamentary 

 Grant for the Establishment, viz. : 



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

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



Ditto other Museum Publications - 



39,027 13 - 

 447 3 8 



900 - - 

 119 5 2 

 154 1 2 



£. s. d. 



39,474 16 8 



92,127 - - 



1,173 6 4 



132,775 3 



1. Salaries 



2. House Expenses 



* EXPLANATORY STATEMENT of the Expenditure in the above Account. 



Officers - - . . 



Assistants - - - - 



Transcribers 



Attendants and Servants 

 Police . . - . 



Persons paid daily or weekly 

 Attendance on Stoves 

 Retired Allowances 



Rates and Taxes - 

 Household Implements 

 Coals, Coke, and Fagots 

 Candles, Oil, Gas, &c. 

 Stationery - - . 



(^ Incidents . . - 



Printed Bocks ^ 



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 Zoolosy - 



3. Purchases AND AcauisiTiONS^ Botanical Specimens ~ - - 



I Books and Binding for the Department of Botany 

 ] Oriental, British, and Mediaeval Antiquities - - - 

 Greek and Roman Antiquities ----- 



Coins and Medals ....-.- 



Books and Binding for the Departments of Coins and Antiquities 

 Prints and Drawings ------- 



Books for the Department of Prints and Drawings - 

 i Freight and Carriage ------- 



Special Purchases anu Acciui- 

 SITIONS . - - - - 



r Excavations in Babylonia, under the superintendence of Colonel 

 Kemball, c. B. - -. 



Statues from the Farnese Palace at Rome - - - _ - 

 Conveyance f:om Paris of a portion of the Antiquities purchased at 



L the Pourtales sale, &c. - - -.- 



s. d. 



8,977 10 - 



15.089 7 7 



3,S52 17 7 



12,749 18 G 



1,149 lo 3 



2,311 14 8 



736 - 9 



2,032 12 10 



472 7 11 

 .1.50 18 2 

 806 19 6 

 353 3 8 

 598 5 - 

 585 14 10 



10,002 11 2 



1,736 15 4 



100 8 7 



799 17 6 



30 - - 

 809 17 11 



31 3 2 

 999 3 11 



27 15 3 



147 12 - 



30 13 - 



544 5 - 



1,396 - 8 



1,502 17 5 



83 14 7 



1,499 14 - 



14 2 - 



336 12 - 



30 ir 11 



3,9S3 17 9 

 .39 15 8 



46,399 17 2 



2,967 9 1 



20,093 3 6 



4,054 11 4 



Carried forward 



73,515 1 1 



