REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT, 1914. 



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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) publications; (5) administration. The following 

 table shows the actual expenditures under these heads for each 

 year since the foundation of the Institution : 



Pur-poses ^or which funds have been appropriated. 



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 $42 , 140 . 00 



Department of Economics and Sociology 5,000.00 



Department of Experimental Evolution 63,479.00 



Geophysical Laboratory 85 , 500 . 00 



Department of Historical Research 31 , 100 . 00 



Department of Marine Biology 19 , 150 . 00 



Department of Meridian Astrometry 25, 180.00 



Nutrition Laboratory 45,798.00 



Division of Publications (office expenses) 10,000.00 



Solar Observatory 220,892.00 



Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 157,406.00 



Researches in Embryology 26,900.00 



Total 732.545.00 



