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



BRITISH MUSEUM for the Financial Year ended on the 31st March 1865. 



By Expenditure under the following Heads, viz. : 



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



2. House Expenses ditto - . - 



3. Purchases and Acquisitions - - ditto - - - 

 Special PuRCUASES AND Acquisitions - ditto - - - 



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



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



6. Buildings, Furniture, Fittings, &c.,1 ■,. 



including Architect's Commission -J ' 



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



- Expenditure for publishing Cuneiform Inscriptions 



By Balance on the 31st March 1865, carried to Account for 1865/6, viz. : 

 Specially applicable to Establishment - £. 26,557 7 - 

 Ditto - ditto - to Buildings, &c. - 8,490 14 If 



35,048 1 1 



expenditure. 



£. s. d. 



46,399 17 

 2,967 9 



20,093 3 

 4,054 11 



10,451 5 



1,232 18 6 



12,048 3 3 



32 10 2 



97,279 18 3 



253 2 - 



estimate, 1864/5. 



47,436 

 3,010 



19,885 

 2,200 



10,560 

 2,190 



10,946 



100 



.S-. d. 



96,327 - - 



Ditto - ditto - for Publication of the Cuneiform In- 

 scriptions .-----.- 



97,533 - 3 



194 1 8 



£. 



35,242 2 9 



132,775 3 - 



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



Brought forward - 



4. Bookbinding, Preparing, 8<c. { 



Bookbinding : Printed Books 

 ,, Manuscripts 



„ Prints and Drawings 



Preparing, &c. : Zoology 

 „ Geology 



„ Mineralogy - 



„ Botany 



- Repairing and arranging Antiquities 



5. Printing Catalog les, &(;. - ( 



Guide-books and Synopsis --...___ 

 Catalogues of Manuscripts - - 



Preparing and Printing Catalogues of Zoology - - - . 



Catalogues of, and Drawings and Engravings from, Coins and Antiquities 

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



IMoulds and Casts from Marbles -----.. 



Ditto - ditto from Coins -----.. 



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

 Fittings and Furniture for fJepartment of Printed Books - 



7,001 6 



998 2 



197 12 



749 6 



139 13 



)09 lo 



30 16 11 



1,204 10 2 



6. Buildings, Fltrmture, 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 ... 

 Antiquities 

 Coins and MedaU 

 Prints and Drawinafs - 



Law Expenses 



109 14 

 60 2 



713 4 

 86 9 



135 16 



125 10 



4,090 5 3 



3,882 9 1 



165 5 2 



946 8 - 



412 14 - 



111 3 - 



1,815 13 7 



69 4 - 



- 13 3 



554 7 11 



Printing, 8cc. the Cuneiform Inscriptions 



£. 



73,515 1 



10,451 5 3 



1,232 18 6 



12,048 3 3 

 32 10 2 



97,279 18 3 

 253 2 - 



97,533 - 3 



t Tlie Building Accounts for Christmas quarter, 1864, and Lady-day quarter, 1865, have to be paid from this balance. 

 277. A 2 



