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100,000/.* whereas the attempt at making the Museum look
like a temple, has entailed an expense to more than twice that
amount; thus weighing down the institution with a load of
useless expenditure, at the same time when they were steadily
refusing such sums as 1000/., 2000/., or 3000/. for objects of
the most vital importance for the real objects for which the
Museum was founded.
EXPENSE.
To enable us to understand many of the assertions in the
preceding pages, and almost all that follow, it will now be
necessary to analyse more particularly the expenditure of the
British Museum since its foundation. Fortunately we are able
to do this with a considerable degree of accuracy, from a return
obtained by Mr. Hume, ordered to be printed by the House of
Commons, 2nd June, 1847, and another presented by the Office
of Works, &c., 2nd March of the same year : from these we
learn that from the year 1753 to 1846 there was expended—
On salaries, wages, and appointments
404,202/.
On house expenses .
.
34,433
On rates and taxes .
30,096
On miscellaneous expenses
•
195,170
Collections.
Sir Hans Sloane’s collection
.
20,000
On manuscripts
.
40,850
Printed books, maps, music,
&c.
92,447
153,297
Antiquities, coins, medals .
, 122,115/.
Prints and drawings
28,109
150,224
Natural history generally
10,405
Minerals and fossils
17,238
Zoology .
12,751
Botany .
1,204
41,598
■- 345,119
* I will not now stop to inquire minutely how much the portico actually cost in
constructing, but will assume 1000/. for each pillar as an approximation, or 44,000/.
for the whole: it may or may not have cost this sum directly, though indirectly it
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100,000/.* whereas the attempt at making the Museum look
like a temple, has entailed an expense to more than twice that
amount; thus weighing down the institution with a load of
useless expenditure, at the same time when they were steadily
refusing such sums as 1000/., 2000/., or 3000/. for objects of
the most vital importance for the real objects for which the
Museum was founded.
EXPENSE.
To enable us to understand many of the assertions in the
preceding pages, and almost all that follow, it will now be
necessary to analyse more particularly the expenditure of the
British Museum since its foundation. Fortunately we are able
to do this with a considerable degree of accuracy, from a return
obtained by Mr. Hume, ordered to be printed by the House of
Commons, 2nd June, 1847, and another presented by the Office
of Works, &c., 2nd March of the same year : from these we
learn that from the year 1753 to 1846 there was expended—
On salaries, wages, and appointments
404,202/.
On house expenses .
.
34,433
On rates and taxes .
30,096
On miscellaneous expenses
•
195,170
Collections.
Sir Hans Sloane’s collection
.
20,000
On manuscripts
.
40,850
Printed books, maps, music,
&c.
92,447
153,297
Antiquities, coins, medals .
, 122,115/.
Prints and drawings
28,109
150,224
Natural history generally
10,405
Minerals and fossils
17,238
Zoology .
12,751
Botany .
1,204
41,598
■- 345,119
* I will not now stop to inquire minutely how much the portico actually cost in
constructing, but will assume 1000/. for each pillar as an approximation, or 44,000/.
for the whole: it may or may not have cost this sum directly, though indirectly it
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