REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT, 1917. 



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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 : 



Purposes for which funds have been approprial^d. 



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 S43.430.00 



Board of Collaborators in American Economic History (transferred from 

 the balance to the credit of the former Department of Economics 



and Sociology) 16.829.84 



Department of Embryologj' 34,772.00 



Department of Experimental Evolution 56,929.00 



Geophysical Laboratory 101,508 .00 



Department of Historical Re.search 35,450 .00 



Department of Marine Biology 19,900.00 



Department of Meridian Astrometry 31,156.00 



Nutrition Laboratory 46,134.00 



Division of Publications 11,202.00 



Solar Observatory 177,544.00 



Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 142,206.00 



Total 717,060.84 



