2 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1941 



illustrate concisely for visitors all the activities of the Institution 

 and its branches. Opened in January 1941, after a preview by the 

 Board of Kegents, the new exhibit aroused widespread favorable 

 comment. 



The Smithsonian radio program, "The World is Yours," on June 

 14, 1941, put on the air an anniversary broadcast marking the com- 

 pletion of 5 full years of the series. A tabulation of station-manager 

 ratings of the program showed that its popularity throughout the 

 country continued unabated. 



Among several bequests to the Institution announced during the 

 year, the largest was that from Mrs. Mary Vaux Walcott, widow of 

 the late Secretary Charles D. Walcott. Her bequest amounted to 

 more than $400,000. 



New members on the Board of Regents were Vice President Henry 

 A. Wallace, and Representative Foster Stearns, of New Hampshire. 



The revision of all solar-constant values collected by the Astro- 

 physical Observatory from all Smithsonian observing stations from 

 1923 to the present proved to be an even more tremendous task than 

 had been anticipated. It was nearing completion, however, at the 

 close of the year, and publication is expected to begin by the first 

 part of 1942. 



M. W. Stirling made further archeological discoveries in southern 

 Mexico, Avorking in cooperation with the National Geographic 

 Society. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., conducted his sixth and 

 final archeological expedition to the Lindenmeier site in northern 

 Colorado, his work having added greatly to our knowledge of 

 Folsom man and the whole subject of the early occupation of 

 America. 



The work of the International Exchange Service was seriously 

 hampered by world conditions, but the scientific and other publica- 

 tions intended for foreign exchange that cannot now be sent are 

 being stored at the Institution until the end of hostilities. 



SUMMARY OF THE YEAR'S ACTIVITIES OF THE BRANCHES OF 

 THE INSTITUTION 



National Museurn. — Appropriations for the maintenance and 

 operation of the Museum during the fiscal year amounted to $818,305. 

 Additional funds are needed annually for guards, curators, and im- 

 provements, but in the press of defense needs the Congress has not 

 found it expedient to grant them. Accessions for the year totaled 

 326,686 individual specimens, bringing the number of catalog entries 

 in all departments of the Museum to nearly 17,500,000. Among the 

 outstanding things received were the following: In anthropology, 

 a collection of Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age implements 



