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been Editor since January, 1904. Serving the Institution also as Chief Clerk 

 since that date, his salary and parts of other expenses incidental to his edi- 

 torial work have been charged to the cost of administration. This incon- 

 sistency of charge having been pointed out repeatedly by the President and 

 by our auditors, the Executiv Committee at its meeting of May 12, 1909, 

 authorizd the establishment of a Division of Publications with Mr. Barnum 

 as Editor in Charge. By this formality, what was already virtual is renderd 

 actual and a better distribution of labor and cost charge is secured. With 

 the transfer to the new administration quarters, the office of Chief Clerk will 

 lapse and the duties of this office will be assumd by Mr. W. M. Gilbert, 

 Assistant Secretary of the Institution. 



, , ^ The sources of funds available for expenditure during 



Financial Statement 1 1 < 1 



for the Fiscal Year the past year, the allotments for the year, and the balances 



1908-1909. unallotted at the end of the year are shown in detail in the 



following tabular statement : 



The following list shows the departments of investigation to which the 

 larger grants were made by the Trustees and the amounts allotted from 

 those grants by the Executiv Committee during the year : 



Department of Botanical Research $32,000 



Department of Economics and Sociology i7,Soo 



Department of Experimental Evolution 29,000 



Department of Historical Research 20,500 



Department of Marine Biology 15,000 



Department of Meridian Astrometry 30,000 



Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 60,000 



Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, vessel 75,ooo 



Geophysical Laboratory 45,ooo 



Horticultural work of Luther Burbank 10,000 



Nutrition Laboratory 25,000 



Solar Observatory 104,000 



Division of Publications 4,500 



467,500 



