REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF 

 THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITH- 

 SONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDED 

 JUNE 30, 1928 



To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonmn Institution: 



Your executive committee respectfully submits the following report 

 in relation to the funds, receipts, and disbursements of the Institu- 

 tion and a statement of the appropriations hy Congress for the fol- 

 lowing Government bureaus in the administrative charge of the 

 Smithsonian Institution : The National Museum, the International 

 Exchanges, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the National Zoolog- 

 ical Park, the Astrophysical Observatory, the International Catalogue 

 of Scientific Literature, and the National Gallery of Art; also for 

 an additional assistant secretary and for printing and binding for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1928. 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



Condition of the endowment fund June 30, 1928 



The sum of $1,000,000, deposited in the Treasury of the United 

 States under act of Congress, is part of a permanent endowment 

 fund, which includes the original Smithson fund and additions ac- 

 cumulated by the deposit of savings and bequests from time to time. 

 Subsequent bequests and gifts and the income therefrom, when so 

 required, are invested in approved securities. The several specific 

 funds so invested are now constituted and classed as follows: 



Consolidated fund 



Avery fuud $44, 244. 60 



Bacon, Virginia Purdy, fund 62,272.93 



r Baird, Lucy H., fund 1, 783. 88 



Canfield, collection fund 46, 232. 86 



Casey, Thomas L., fund 1, 000. 00 



Chamberlain fund 35, 000. 00 



Endowment fund 41, 542. 80 



Hachenberg fund 5, 000.00 



Hamilton fund 500. 00 



Henry, Caroline, fund 1,425.45 



Hodgkins, general fund 37,275.00 



Hughes, Bruce, fund 10,108.72 



Myer, Catherine Walden, fund 18,649.43 



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