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



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HITISH MUSEUM for the Financial Year ended on the 31st March 1868. 



B; Expenditure under the following Heads, viz.: 



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



2. House Expenses - 



3. Purchases and Acquisitions 



4. Bookbinding, Preparing, &c. 



5. Printing Catalogues, &c. - - - 



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



including Architect's Commission 



7. Miscellaneous 



ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 



ditto 



ditto 



-Amount paid for Mr. Wood's passage to continue Excavations at Ephesus,1 

 and by amount of advances for the Excavations - - - . -J 

 -Expenditure for Outfit for Mr. Holmes, the Officer attached by the Trustees^ 

 i| to the Abyssinian Expedition, and amount expended by him - - -J 

 ■''Amount paid for the Woodhouse Collection of Antiquities . . . 



■ iBalance on the 31st March 1868, viz. : — 



In the Bank of England ---... 



Amount in the hands of Mr. Vice-Consul Dennis for Ex- 

 plorations in Asia Minor ----.. 



Do. of Mr. Consul Rogers for Excavations in the 

 Hauran -------.. 



Do. of Cavaliere Bonaini for obtaining transcripts of 

 the Salvetti Correspondence at Florence - . - 



£ s. d. 



25,846 10 4 



214 4 4 



30 - 10 



26 11 9 



expenditure. 



£. 5. d. 



51,194 11 2 



3,449 13 10 



19,639 14 6 



10,249 16 6 



1,850 12 11 



11,567 7 2 



322 7 2 



98,274 3 3 



830 - - 



174 7 - 



1,360 - - 



26,116 7 3 

 126,754 17 6 



ESTIMATE, 1867/8. 



£. 

 52,141 



3,260 

 19,735 

 10,160 



4,970 



10,155 

 400 



100,821 - - 



ExpLANAToav StateiMent of the Expenditure in the above Account — conHnued. 



i. IlEBINDINO, PeEPARING, &C. ' 



Bookbinding : Printed Books 

 ,, Manuscript3 



„ Prints and Drawings 



Preparing, &c. : Zoology 

 „ Geology 



„ Mineralogy - 



„ Botany 



. Repairing and arranging Antiquities 



Brought forwai'd 

 £. 



5. ^INTING Catalogues, 8sc. 



IriDiKos, Furniture, Fit- 

 iKos, &c., including Archi- 

 ct's Commission 



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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 - - Coins - - - . . 



Publication of Cuneiform Inscriptions .... 



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

 Fittings and Furniture for tlie Department of Printed Books 



Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 



Ditto 

 Ditto 



ditto 

 dittff 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 

 ditto 



ditto 

 ditto 



Architect's Commission 

 Law Expenses 



Manuscripts ... 

 Mineralogy and Geology 

 Zoology . . . „ 



Botany .... 

 Oriental Antiquities - 

 Greek and Roman Antiquities 

 British and Mediaeval An- 

 tiquities and Ethnography. 

 Coins and Medals 

 Prints and Drawings . 



BCCSLLANEOI 



Bent, Rates, ard other charges incidental to the premises. 

 No. 103, Victoria-street, Westminster, for the tempo- 

 rary continuance there of the Christy Collection - 297 



Less Amount contributed by the Trustees under Mr. 



Christy's Will -..-...gQ 



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