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



BRITISH MUSEUM for the Financial Year ended on the 31st March 1866. 



EXPENDITURE. 



By Expenditure under the following Heads, viz. : 



1. Salaries 



2. House Expenses - - - - 



3. Purchases and Acquisitions 

 Special Purchases and Acquisitions 



4. BooxBiNDiNG, Preparing, &c. 



5. Printing Catalogues, &c. - 



6. Buildings, Furniture, Fittings, &c.,1 i-, 



including Architect's Commission -/ 



7. Miscellaneous ----- ditto - 



as per Explanatory Statement below* 

 - ditto . . - 

 ditto - - ^ - 

 ditto - 



ditto - . - 

 ditto . - - 



- Expenditure for publishing Cuneiform Inscriptions 



Balance on the 31st March 1866, carried to Account for 1866/7, viz. : 

 Specially applicable to Establishment - £.23,221 14 7 

 Ditto - ditto - to Buildings, &c. - 9,433 16 6t 



32,655 11 1 



£. 



40,658 



3,360 



19,210 



13,839 



7,780 



1,393 



9,429 



25 



s. d. 



13 

 16 

 16 

 14 

 13 

 8 



17 



3 



101,699 3 4 

 109 11 - 



ESTIMATE, 1865/6. 



Jt'. 



48,656 

 3J010 



17,886 

 5,600 



10,300 

 3,440 



10,373 



100 



.V. d. 



99,364 - - 



101,808 14 4 



Ditto - ditto 



SCRIPTIONS 



for Publication of the Cuneiform In- 



84 10 8 



£. 



32,740 1 9 



134,548 J 6 1 



Explanatory Statement of the Expenditdre iu the above Account — continued. 



Brought forward 



4. Bookbinding, Preparing, &c. i 



Bookbinding : Printed Books 

 ,, Manuscripts 



,, Prints and Drawings 



Preparing, &c. : Zoology 

 „ Geology 



„ Mineralogy - 



„ Botany 



Repairing and arranging Antiquities 



4,980 10 



355 18 



182 2 



585 19 



240 2 



96 12 



r 6 



1,332 1 



5. Printing Catalog ces, &c. 



Guide-books and Synopsis .--.--- 

 Catalogue of Hebrew Books ------- 



Preparing and Printing Catalogues of Zoology ... 



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

 Catalogues of, and Drawings from Antiquities - . - . 



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



Moulds and Casts fioin Marbles - - . - - . 



Bdildings, Furniture, Fit- 

 tings, &c., including Archi- 

 tect's Commission 



7. MiSCELAANEOUS 



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

 Fittings and Furniture for tile Department of Printed Books 



Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 



ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 



Architect's Commission ■ 



Manuscripls 

 Mineralogy and Geology 

 Zoology - . . 



Botany ... 

 Antiquities 

 Coins and Medah 

 Prints and Drawings - 



Law Expenses 



105 7 

 243 12 

 461 

 196 18 

 109 18 

 147 15 

 128 10 



8 6 



3,023 12 U 



2,258 18 6 



124 12 - 



835 11 6 



394 19 10 



98 14 10 



2,165 19 9 



83-3 



9 9 2 



434 18 10 



Printing, &c. the Cuneiform Insceiptions 



£. 



£. s. d. 

 83,070 - 9 



7,780 13 ft 



1,393 8 9 



9,429 17 7 

 25 3 1 



101,699 3 4 

 109 II - 



101,808 14 4 



f The Building Accounts for Christmas quarter, 1865, and Lady-day quarter, 1866, have to be paid from this balance. 



187. A 2 



