REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT, 1915. 



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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 : 



The following list shows the departments of investigation to 

 v/hich 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 jetxr: 



Department of Botanical Research $40,615.00 



Department of Economics and Sociology 3,000.00 



Department of Experimental Evolution 48,919.00 



Geophysical Laboratory 89, 164.00 



Department of Historical Research 31 , 400 . 00 



Department of Marine Biology 19, 150.00 



Department of Meridian Astrometry 26,380.00 



Nutrition Laboratory 45, 064 . 00 



Division of Publications 10, 000 . 00 



Solar Observatory 220, 130.00 



Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 141,310.00 



Department of Embryology 32, 180.00 



Total 707,312.00 



