REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT, 1919. 



Aggregates of financial receipts. 



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* Of this amount $1,394,335 came from the sale of bonds in 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914, 

 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918; $51,265.74 from the Colburn Estate in 1916; and $580,000 from the Car- 

 negie Corporation of New York in 1917, 1918, and 1919. 



The following list shows the departments and divisions to 

 which appropriations have been made by the Trustees and the 

 amounts allotted by the Executive Committee during the year: 



Department of Botanical Research $49 , 290 . 00 



Ecological Research 22, 500 . 00 



Department of Embryology 36, 280 . 00 



Eugenics Record Office 26,836.00 



Department of Experimental Evolution 69 , 074 . 00 



Geophysical Laboratory 119, 209 . 44 



Department of Historical Research 39 , 700 . 00 



Department of Marine Biology 21 , 530 . 00 



Department of Meridian Astrometry 34,816.00 



Nutrition Laboratory 44, 390 . 00 



Division of Publications 15,000.00 



Mount Wilson Observatory 159 , 264 . 00 



Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 201 , 510 . 00 



Aggregate for Minor Grants 130,116.62 



Aggregate for Publications 70,593.43 



Total 1,040,109.49 



The purposes for which funds have been appropriated by the 

 Board of Trustees of the Institution may be summarily classified 

 under five heads: (1) Investments in bonds; (2) large projects; 

 (3) minor projects, special projects, and research associates and 

 assistants; (4) pubUcations; (5) administration. The following 



