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Table Shozving Expenditures on Account of Site for and Construction of Administra- 

 tion Building, Real Estate, etc. 

 Administration : 



Building and site (chargeable to Administration Building 



fund) $133,224.89 



Furniture on hand 4,437-63 



$137,662.52 



Department of Botanical Research (inventory to July 30, 1908) : 



Office and library 3,812 . 18 



Apparatus 5,5o8- 15 



Buildings 15,089.25 



Grounds, fencing, and water supply 5,154.98 



29,564-56 



Department of Experimental Evolution (inventory to Sept. 30, 1908) : 



Office and library 4,928. 18 



Laboratory 2,523 . 44 



Buildings 29,610 . 95 



Field appliances 4,339 • 20 



41,401.77 



Geophysical Laboratory (inventory to Sept. 30, 1908) : 



Office and library 6,954.98 



Laboratory 50,959.24 



Shop 10,115.62 



Building and site 99,606 . 00 



167,635-84 



Department of Marine Biology (inventory to Sept. 30, 1908) : 



Vessels 10,360.66 



Buildings and docks 7,615.24 



Apparatus 900. 39 



Furniture and library 1,136.80 



20,013.09 



Solar Observatory (inventory to Sept. 30, igo8) : 



Buildings, grounds, road, telephone line 99,898.53 



Shop 15,907. 13 



Instruments 201,089.68 



Furniture and operative appliances 20,940.41 



Hooker telescope 20,320 . 09 



358,155.84 



Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (inventory to Sept. 30, 1908) : 



Office equipment 2,939 . 70 



Instruments 20,629. 35 



Vessel equipment 2,096. 12 



25,665.17 



Nutrition Laboratory (inventory to Sept. 30, 1908) : 



Office 2,477.31 



Laboratories 5,622 . 02 



Shop 1,499-71 



Building and site 102,041 . 23 



111,640.27 



Total 891,739-06 



The construction of the Nutrition Laboratory, begun in July, 1907, pro- 

 ceeded so rapidly that Director Benedict and his staff were permitted to 

 occupy it early in January, 1908, a month in advance 

 ^EquipmiTt of""^ of the contract requirement. The equipment of this 

 Nutrition novel establishment has gone on with equal rapidity, so 



Laboratory. ^^^^ ^^^ laboratory is now substantially ready to begin 



its program of systematic investigation. A description of this laboratory with 

 appropriate illustrations will be found in the report of the Director in the 



