SECRETARY'S REPORT 7 



The roll of Kegents at the close of the fiscal year was as follows : 

 Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren, Chancellor; Vice 

 President Richard Nixon; members from the Senate: Clinton P. 

 Anderson, Leverett Saltonstall, H. Alexander Smith ; members from 

 the House of Eepresentatives : Clarence Cannon, John M. Vorys, 

 Overton Brooks ; citizen members : Vannevar Bush, Arthur H. Comp- 

 ton, Robert V. Fleming, and Jerome C. Hunsaker. 



HNANCES 



A statement on finances, dealing particularly with Smithsonian pri- 

 vate funds, will be found in the report of the executive committee of 

 the Board of Regents, page 167. 



APPROPRIATIONS 



Funds appropriated to the Institution for the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1955, total $3,048,146, obligated as follows : 



Management $63,830 



United States National Museum 1,154,232 



Bureau of American Ethnology 58, 730 



Astropbysical Observatory 110, 680 



National Collection of Fine Arts 44, 523 



National Air Museum 86,119 



International Exchange Service 79,376 



Canal Zone Biological Area 8, 473 



Maintenance and operation of buildings 1,121,697 



Other general services 320,846 



Total 3, 048, 146 



Besides these direct appropriations, the Institution received funds 

 by transfer from other Government agencies as follows : 



From the District of Columbia for the National Zoological Park $648, 000 



From the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, for the 

 Pdver Basin Surveys 52,700 



VISITORS 



Visitors to the Smithsonian group of buildings during the year 

 reached a record total of 3,895,017, nearly a quarter of a million more 

 than the previous year. April 1955 was the month of largest attend- 

 ance, with 585,916; May 1955 was second, with 551,820; August 1954 

 third, with 490,035. Largest attendance for a single day was 55,096 

 for May 7, 1955. Table 1 gives a summary of the attendance records 

 for the five buildings. These figures, when added to tlie 3,476,584 

 estimated visitors at the National Zoological Park and 814,932 recorded 

 at tlie National Gallery of Art, make a total number of visitors at 

 tlie Smithsonian Institution of 8,186,533. 



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