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monthly statements issued regularly by the Institution. The accounts of all 

 departments have been audited during the year by the Bursar, and with the 

 approval of the Board of Trustees such annual audit will be continued. 



In accordance with a recommendation approved by the Executive Com- 

 mittee, all departmental accounts with banks in which funds are deposited 

 are kept in the name of the Institution, and are subject to draft by the Presi- 

 dent as well as by the respective directors of the departments. By direction 

 of the Executive Committee, all receipts of interest on departmental deposits 

 in banks are credited to the respective departmental allotments. 



The sources of the funds available for expenditure during the past year, 

 and the allotments to the work of administration, to departments, to grantees, 

 and to publications are shown in detail in the following tabular statements : 



Large grants 



Minor grants* 



Research associates 

 and assistants . . . 



Publication 



Administration 



Unallotted 

 Oct. 31, igo6. 



52,500.00 

 650.00 



8,515-53 

 9,868.50 



101,534.03 



Appropri- 

 ation, 

 Dec. II, 

 1906. 



|443,200 

 73,100 



25,000 

 70,000 

 50,000 



661,300 



Revertnients, 



Oct. 31, 1906, 



to Oct. 31, 



1907. 



^21,992.92 

 2,381-53 



400.00 



3,479-08 



7.10 



28,260.63 



Total. 



1547,692.92 

 76,131-53 



25,400.00 

 81,994.61 

 59,875.60 



791,094.66 



Allotments. 



519,785.70 

 76,131-53 



25,400.00 



65,358.99 

 49,005.25 



735,681.47 



Balances 



unallotted 



Oct. 31, 



1907. 



^27,907.22 



16,635.62 

 10,870.35 



55,413-19 



*This includes $2,000 reverted at the meeting of the Executive Committee, January 14, 1907, by reason 

 of the transfer to the fund for research associates and assistants of grant to G. R. Wieland. 



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 Executive Committee during the year: 



Department of Botanical Research $25,000.00 



Department of Economics and Sociology 30,000.00 



Department of Experimental Evolution 26,000.00 



Department of Historical Research 18,700 . 00 



Department of Marine Biology 15,000.00 



Department of Meridian Astrometry 20,000 . 00 



Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 59,000.00 



Geophysical Laboratory 108,500 . 00 



Horticultural Work (L,. Burbank) 10,000.00 



Nutrition : 



F. G. Benedict 8,000.00 



T. B. Osborne 5,000.00 



Nutrition Laboratory 102,085 . 70 



Solar Observatory 92,500 . 00 



519,785-70 



