REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT, 1916. 



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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) pubhcations; (5) administration. The following 

 table shows the actual expenditures under these heads for each 

 year since the foundation of the Institution: 



Purposes for 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 $38,480 



Department of Economics and Sociology 



Department of Embrjology 30,420 



Department of Experimental Evolution 50,411 



Geophysical Laboratory 85, 000 



Department of Historical Research 28, 900 



Department of Marine Biology 17,150 



Department of Meridian Astrometry 26,860 



Nutrition Laboratory 42, 930 



Division of Pubhcations 10, 500 



Solar Observatory 192,319 



Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 131 , 766 



Total 654,736 



