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ANNTJAL REPORT SAHTHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1961 



FINANCES 



A statement on finances, dealing particularly with Smithsonian 

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

 of the Board of Kegents, page 221. Funds appropriated to the Insti- 

 tution for its regular operations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1961, 

 totaled $8,114,000. Besides tliis direct appropriation, the Institution 

 received funds by transfer from other Government agencies as follows: 

 From the District of Columbia for the National Zoological Park, 

 $1,304,000; from the National Park Service, Department of the In- 

 terior, for the River Basin Surveys, $123,895. 



VISITORS 



Visitors to the Smithsonian group of bmldings on the Mall reached 

 a total of 7,103,474, an all-time high and 608,844 more than the pre- 

 vious year. April 1901 was the month of largest attendance, with 

 1,082,827; August 1960 second, with 1,051,733; May 1961 third, with 

 990,230. Table 1 gives a summary of the attendance records for the 

 five buildings; table 2, groups of school children. These figures, 

 when added to the 1.032,340 recorded at the National Gallery of Art 

 bring the year's total number of visitors at the Institution buildings 

 on the Mali to 8,135,814. 



Table 1. — Visitors to certain Smithsonian buildings during the year ended 



June SO, 1961 



