128 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1920. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Judge Gray presented the Annual Report of the Executive Com- 

 mittee showing the financial condition of the institution for the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, which was adopted. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE. 



Judge Gray presented the annual report of the permanent com- 

 mittee as follows : 



December 11, 1919. 

 To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Gentlemen : Your permanent committee submits herewith its report for the 

 past year on the matters under its supervision : 



Ilodglrtns fund. — At the last annual meeting of the board, held December 12, 

 1918, your committee reported that $15,000 had been allotted from the Hodgkins 

 fund to Dr. Charles G. Abbot, director of the Astrophysical Observatory, for 

 the purpose of carrying on researches in solar radiation at a station to be 

 established in the Argentine Republic. It was explained that war conditions 

 prevented this, and that instead, work had been done in North Carolina and at 

 a station established at Calama, Chile. The latter work is now under way, 

 and additional allotments amounting to $8,200 have been made. 



Under the allotment of $5,000 previously reported, Dr. R. H. Goddard, of 

 Clark College, Worcester, Mass., has continued his work in developing certain 

 devices to be used in connection with the study of the temperature of the 

 higher atmospheric strata. 



Avery bequest. — One lot only, No. 140 East Capitol Street, remains to be dis- 

 posed of to close up the Avery estate, which now totals $28,874.74. 



The Poore bequest. — Since the last report several of the lots belonging to this 

 property, situated in Lowell, Mass., have been sold. With these additions and 

 the earnings of the fund to date the bequest now amounts to $29,730.10. 



The Bruce Hughes bequest to be used for the founding of the Hughes Alcove, 

 now totals $9,797.12. 



Freer Art Gallery fund. — The condition of the fund is as follows : 

 Receipts. L $1, 349, 251. 48 



Expenditures 1, 091, 467. 09 



Balance 257, 783. 79 



1,349, 251. 48 

 Consolidated fund. — The consolidated fund of the institution, which consists 

 of investments in excess of the permanent fund of $1,000,000 deposited in the 

 United States Treasury, now totals $71,554.38. 



On motion, the report of the permanent committee was accepted. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE USE OF THE MUSEUM BUILDINGS. 



In the absence of Mr. Henry White, chairman, the following report 

 was presented by Senator Lodge : 



December 11, 1919. 

 To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 



Gentlemen : In the absence of the chairman, Mr. Henry White, I submit the 

 following report: 



