REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 235 



For support of the Science Information Exchange : 

 Atomic Energy Commission 

 Department of Defense 

 Department of the Navy 

 Federal Aviation Agency 



National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

 National Institute of Health 

 National Science Foundation 

 Veterans' Administration 



Included in the above list of gifts and contributions are reimburs- 

 able contracts. 



The foregoing report relates only to the private funds of the 

 Institution. 



The following appropriations were made by Congress for the Gov- 

 ernment bureaus under the administrative charge of the Smithsonian 

 Institution for the fiscal year 1961 : 



Salaries and Expenses $8, 114, 000. 00 



National Zoological Park 1, 304, 000. 00 



The appropriation made to the National Gallery of Art (which 

 is a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution) was $1,920,000.00. 



In addition, funds were transfen-ed from other Government 

 agencies for expenditure under the direction of the Smithsonian 

 Institution as follows : 



Working Funds, transferred from the National Park Service, 

 Interior Department, for archeological investigations in river 

 basins throughout the United States $123, 895. 00 



Tlie Institution also administers a trust fund for partial support 

 of the Canal Zone Biological Area, located on Barro Colorado Island 

 in the Canal Zone. 



AUDIT 



The report of the audit of the Smithsonian Private Funds follows : 



The Board of Regents, 

 Smithsonian Institution, 

 Washington 25, B.C. 



"We have examined the balance sheet of private funds of Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion as of June 30, 1961 and the related statement of current general private 

 funds receipts and disbursements and the several statements of changes in 

 funds for the year then ended. Our examination was made in accordance with 

 generally accepted auditing standards, and accordingly Included such tests of 

 the accounting records and such other auditing procedures as we considered 

 necessary in the circumstances. 



Land, building, furniture, equipment, works of art, living and other speci- 

 mens and certain sundry property are not included in the accounts of the 

 Institution ; likewise, the accompanying statements do not include the Na- 

 tional Gallery of Art and other departments, bureaus and operations admin- 



