14 



CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



The rapid march of events in the early life of the Institution and the rela- 

 tively small part an individual can play in the aggregate of its history are 

 emphasized especially by an impressive death-roll of members of the Boards 

 of Trustees in the original and in the present corporation. Of a total of 

 forty-three individuals in these two boards, thirteen are deceased, including 

 the Chairman of the first Board of Trustees. Abram S. Hewitt, and the first 

 President of the Institution, Daniel C. Gilman. But these colleagues were 

 all as ripe in years as in usefulness, and the recollection of their devotion to 

 the interests of the Institution may serve to give zeal and confidence to their 

 successors in a continuity of endeavor "to encourage, in the broadest and 

 most liberal manner, investigation, research, and discovery, and the applica- 

 tion of knowledge to the improvement of mankind." 



The sources of funds available for expenditure during 

 the past fiscal year, the allotments for the year, the revert- 

 ments made during the year, and the balances unallotted 

 at the end of the A'ear are shown in detail in the following statement : 



Financial Statement 



for Fiscal Year 



1910-1911. 



Object of appro- 

 priation. 



Large grants .... 



Minor grants. . , . 



Research associ- 

 ates and assist- 

 ants 



Publications . . . . 



Administration. . 



Total 



UnaUotted 



Oct. 31, 



1910. 



17,620.16 

 14,553.80 



22,173.96 



Appropria- 

 tion, Dec. 13, 

 1910. 



Revert- 

 nient<5 Oct. 

 31, 1910, to 

 Oct. 31, 191 1. 



^82,797. 00 $10,000.00 

 97,124.03 2,190.10 



24,200.00 

 60,000.00 

 45,000.00 



3,712.07 

 6,463.22 



Total. 



15492,797.00 

 99,314.13 



24,200.00 

 71,332.23 

 66,017.02 



Aggregates 



of 

 allotments I 

 and amounts j 

 transferred. ' 



709,121.03 I 22,365.39 753,660.38 



1492,797.00 

 94,314.13 



24,200.00 

 56,007.90 

 45,455.80 



712,774.83 



Balances 



unallotted 



Oct. 31, 



1911. 



|5,ooo.oo 



15,324.33 

 20,561.22 



40,885.55 



The following list shows the departments of investigation to which the 

 larger grants were made by the Trustees at their last annual meeting and the 

 amounts allotted from these grants by the Executive Committee during the 

 year : 



Department of Botanical Research $36,680 



Department of Economics and Sociolog}- 10,000 



Department of Experimental Evolution 33,734 



Geophysical Laboratory 54,480 



Department of Historical Research 23,500 



Department of Marine Biology 32,980 



Department of Meridian Astrometry 31,480 



Nutrition Laboratory 30,378 



Division of Publication 9,000 



Solar Observatory 136,055 



Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 94.5^0 



492,797 



