REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 135 



Expenditures from funds devoted to specific purposes: 



Researches and explorations $60,879.90 



Care, increase, and study of special collections 4, 836. 80 



Publications 5,470.90 



$71, 187. 60 



Total 115, 287. 28 



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 

 $715.42. 



The Institution gratefully acknowledges gifts or bequests from the 

 following : 



Mrs. W. W. Daly, for Smithsonian endowment fund. 



Friends of Dr. Albert S. Hitchcock, for the Hitchcock Agrostological 

 Library. 



Cornelia L. Pell, for the Pell Collection. 



Research Corporation, further contributions for research in radiation. 



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



H. Nelson Slater, for investigations in connection with early cotton ma- 

 chinery. 



Julia D. Strong, for National Collection of Fine Arts. 



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 are withdrawn in round amounts and deposited in the Treasury.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 1941 : 



General expenses $386,260. 00 



(This combines under one heading the appropriations heretofore 

 made for Salaries and Expenses, International Exchanges, 

 American Ethnology, Astrophysical Observatory, and Na- 

 tional Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian Institution 

 and for Maintenance and Operation of the United States 

 National Museum.) 



Preservation of collections 627,470.00 



Printing and binding 73, 000. 00 



National Zoological Park 239,910.00 



Cooperation with the American Republics (transfer to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution) 28, 500.00 



Total 1, 355,140. 00 



