138 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 19 3 9 



The practice of depositing on time in local trust companies and 

 banks such revenues as may be spared temporarily has been continued 

 during the past year, and interest on these deposits has amounted to 

 $923.62. 



The Institution gratefully acknowledges gifts or bequests from the 

 following : 



Friends of Dr. Albert S. Hitchcock, for establishment and care of the 



Hitchcock Agrostological Library. 

 Research Corporation, further contributions for research in radiation. 

 John A. Roebling, further contributions for research in radiation. 

 Mrs. Mary Vaux Walcott, for purchase of certain specimens. 



All payments are made by check, signed by the Secretary of the 

 Institution on the Treasurer of the United States, and all revenues 

 are deposited to the credit of the same account. In many instances 

 deposits are placed in bank for convenience of collection and later 

 are withdrawn in round amounts and deposited in the Treasury. 



The foregoing report relates only to the private funds of the 

 Institution. 



The following annual appropriations were made by Congress for 

 the Government bureaus under the administrative charge of the 

 Smithsonian Institution for the fiscal year 1939 : 



General expenses $343, 785. 00 



(This combines under one heading the appropriations hereto- 

 fore made for Salaries and Expenses, International Ex- 

 changes, American Ethnology, Astrophysical Observatory, 

 and National Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian 

 Institution and for Maintenance and Operation of the United 

 States National Museum.) 



Preservation of collections 609, 380. 00 



Printing and binding 68, 000. 00 



National Zoological Park 227, 000. 00 



Total 1, 248, 165. 00 



The Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, ap- 

 proved June 25, 1938, made an appropriation of $40,000 for the 

 Smithsonian Gallery of Art Commission to carry out the provisions 

 of Section 2 of Public Resolution 95 entitled "Joint resolution to set 

 apart public ground for the Smithsonian Gallery of Art, and for 

 other purposes," approved May 17, 1938, 



The report of the audit of the Smithsonian private funds is printed 

 below : 



ExECxrrrvE Committee, Board of Regents, 



Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 

 Sirs : Pursuant to agreement we have audited the accounts of the Smithsonian 

 Institution for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939, and certify the balance of cash 

 on hand, Including Petty Cash Fund, June 30, 1939, to be $314,997.74. 



