1 8 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



nect the figures of this table with those of the corresponding table given in 

 my preceding report, it should be observed that of the unallotted balance of 

 $114,894.75 at the end of the previous year (October 31, 1905) an amount 

 of $102,176.79 was reverted to the unappropriated fund by action of the 

 Executive Committee November 6, 1905. 



Large grants 



Minor grants 



Research associates 



and assistants 



Publication 



Administration 



Unallotted 



Oct. 31, 



1905- 



|l, 750.00 



Appro- 



priatiou, 



Dec. 12, 



1905- 



Revert- 



ments 



Oct. 31, 1905, 



to Oct. 31, 



1906. 



Total. 



565-00 

 10,402.96 



12,717.96 



1552,600 

 108,000 1 110,853.05 



26,000 I. 

 50,000 I 

 50,000 1 



5,21 



5.12 

 •44 



786,600 



16,101.61 



1552,600.00 

 120,603.05 



Allotments. 



1459,450.00 

 95,650.00 



Balances 



unallotted 



Oct. 31, 



1906. 



j593. 150.00 

 24,953-05 



26,000.00 5,600.00 20,400.00 

 55,813.12 47,297-59 j 8,515.53 

 60,403.40 42,534.90 17,868.50 



815,419-57 650,532.49 



164,887.08 



The following list shows the departments of investigations to which the 

 arger grants were made by the Trustees and the amounts thus far allotted 

 during the year to those grants by the Executive Committee : 



Department of Experimental Evolution $21,000 



Department of Marine Biology 15,000 



Department of Botanical Research 33,000 



Horticultural Work (L. Burbank) 10,000 



Department of Economics and Sociology 30,000 



Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 54,000 



Department of Historical Research 14,450 



Solar Observatory 150,000 



Geophysical Research : 



A. L. Day i7,5oo 



F. D. Adams 1,500 



Bibliography ( G. F. Becker el al. ) i ,000 



Geophysical Laboratory 85,500 



Southern Observatory 10,000 



Nutrition : 



F. G. Benedict 10,000 



R. H. Chittenden 1,500 



T. B. Osborne 5, 000 



459.450 



