Report. vii 



Disbursements of the Asiatic Society, for the year 1848. Cr 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



By Museum. 



Paid Mr. E. Blyth's Salary as Curator 



for 12 months, at 250 Rs. per month, 3,000 



Ditto house-rent for ditto at 40 Rs. per 



ditto 480 



3,480 



Ditto Establishment of Taxidermists, Artists, Carpen- 

 ters, &c., ditto ditto at 147 Rs. per month, 1,764 



Ditto Contingencies, ditto ditto, 526 2 



Ditto for 5 dozens and 2 Stoppered Bottles, , 18 1 



Ditto for 1 tin-lined Case for packing Minerals for Syd- 

 ney Museum, 3 16 



Ditto Mr. H. Mansel, for a Teak Wood 



Glass Case for the Model of the Taj, 40 



Ditto ditto for expences incurred in re- 

 placing the Missing pieces of Ivory, 

 &c. for the above, 16 



56 



Ditto for repairing and enlarging a Teak Wood Table 



forditto, 12 



Ditto for a Glass Case for depositing Shells, 70 7 6 



5,929 12 



By Museum Economic Geology. 



Paid Mr. H. Piddington's Salary as Joint- Curator for 



12 months, at 250 Rs. per month, 3,000 



Ditto Establishment for ditto at 31 Rs. per ditto, 372 



Ditto Contingencies for ditto, 89 13 6 



Ditto for a Copy of Lyall's Principles of Geology, .... 11 4 



Ditto for a Silver Evaporating Basin, 28 8 



Ditto Messrs. Scott and Co. for a Copy of Bengal Di- 

 rectory for 1848, 8 



Ditto for a Copy of Quarterly Journal of Geological 



Society, No. 12, 4 



Ditto for 4 lbs. and 5oz. of liquor ammonise with stop- 

 pered bottles, 18 



By Mineralogical and Geological Museum. 



Paid Contingencies for 12 months, 65 10 



Ditto Mr. J. C. Sherriff, for printing Geological Cata- 

 logue in February 1841, 



Ditto ditto Mineralogical ditto, 



Ditto for a Saw for cutting Specimens, 



Ditto for Teak planks for making a chest of drawers,.. 



3,531 9 6 



89 13 



(J 

 6 

 



6 





61 10 





7 8 





13 4 



237 14 6 







Carried over, 



9,699 4 



