REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT, 1918. 



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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 and divisions to 

 which appropriations were made by the Trustees at their last 

 annual meeting and the amounts allotted from these by the 

 Executive Committee during the year: 



Department of Botanical Research $49,109 . 00 



Department of Embryology 35,192 . 00 



Eugenics Record Office 25,000.00 



Department of Experimental Evolution 59,790.00 



Geophysical Laboratory 92,000.00 



Department of Historical Research 38,900.00 



Department of Marine Biology 20,400.00 



Department of Meridian Astrometry 31,426.00 



Nutrition Laboratory 46,124.00 



Division of Publications 12,000.00 



Solar Observatory 154,033.00 



Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 145,206 . 00 



Aggregate for Minor Grants 153,339 . 00 



Aggregate for Publications 60,410 . 22 



Total 922,929.22 



