8 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 192 8 



The Institution gratefully acknowledges gifts from the following 

 donors : 



Dr. W. L. Abbott, for areheological explorations in Dominican Republic. 



Mr. William N. Beach, for expenses of naturalist in connection with African 



expedition. 



Estate of Frederick A. Canfield, for expenses of Canfield collection of 

 minerals. 



Mrs. Laura Welsh Casey, for establishment of Thomas Lincoln Casey fund 

 to maintain Casey collection and promote research in Coleoptera. 



Estate of William H. Dall, for preparation of bibliography. 



Mrs. E. H. Harriman, for purchase of Dall library. 



Mr. Marcus Daly, for purchase of African natural history specimens. 



Mr. Childs Frick, for further exploration in vertebrate paleontology. 



New York Commission on Ventilation, for study of radiation from human 

 body. 



Mr. E. W. Marland, for Missouri Historical Society, for further studies of 

 language of Osage Indians. 



Mrs. Cornelia Livingston Pell, for care of Pell collection. 



Research Corporation, for researches in solar radiation. 



Mr. Charles T. Simpson, for further work on West Indian shells. 



Mr. James M. Fowler, toward expenses of installing airplane, Spirit of St. 

 Louis. 



Mr. Joe Elliott, toward expenses of installing aii-plane, Spirit of St. Louis. 



Mr. W. Sheffield Cowles, toward expenses of installing airplane, Spirit of St. 

 Louis. 



Mrs. Josephine M. Springer, for work in connection with Springer collection. 



Mr. B. H. Swales, for purchase of specimens. 



The Institution also acknowledges gifts for the endowment fund 

 from the following friends: 



Mr. Dwight W. Morrow. 



Mr. R. D. Berry. 



Mr. John F. Kennefick. 



The Institution has received from the estate of George P. Hachen- 

 berg notes to the equivalent of $5,000 as a bequest to the Institution 

 for general scientific purposes; also from the estate of Catherine 

 Walden Myer real-estate notes to the amount of $14,618, representing 

 final payment of bequest for purchase of works of art for use and 

 benefit of the National Gallery of Art, 



Freer Gallery of Art. — The invested funds of the Freer bequest 

 are classified as follows: 



Court and grounds fund $394,574.09 



Court and grounds, maintenance fund 81, 586. 40 



Curator fund 330, 022. 46 



Residuary legacy 3, 462, 061. 31 



Total 4, 268, 244. 26 



The practice of depositing on time in local trust companies and 

 banks such revenues as may be spared temporarily has been con- 



