BEPORT OF THE SECRETARY 

 Statement of endowment funds 



Endowment, June 30, 1929 $1,022,385.76 



Increase from income, gifts, etc 1.418.00 



Increase frmn giiin from siles, etc 9, 531. 19 



Increase from stock dividends ' 454.91 



Endowment June 30, 1930 1,033,789.85 



Specific pur- 

 poses otner 

 tlmn Freer 

 endowment 



Freer endow- 

 ment 



$026, 003. 70 $5, 23«, O.M. 02 



8,825.19 11,002.00 



8S5. 57 I 38. 442. 88 



1, 078. 00 I 14, 830. 00 



630, 792. 55 5, 300, 929. 60 



The following appropriations were made by Congress for the Gov- 

 ernment bureaus under the administrative charge of tlie Smithsonian 

 Institution for the fiscal year 1930 : 



Salaries and expenses $30,004.00 



Gellatly Art Collection 21,000.00 



International Exchanges 51, 297. 00 



American Etlmolopj- 68, 800. 00 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 7, 885. 00 



Astropliyslcal Observatory 36, 720.00 



National Museum : 



Furniture and fixtures $33,240.00 



Heating and lighting 90,100.00 



Preservation of collections 570,084.00 



Building repairs 21,080.00 



Books 2, 000. 00 



Postage 450. 00 



717, 014. 00 



National Gallery of Art 34,853.00 



National Zoological Park 203.000.00 



National Zoological Park, building for reptiles 220,000.00 



National Zoological Park, gates for south boundary 2,000.00 



Printing and binding 95,000.00 



Total 1,493,573.00 



MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST 



AWARD OF LANOLET MEDAL TO CHARLES MATTHEWS MANLY AND TO 

 COMMANDER RICHARD EVELYN BYRD, UNITED STATES NA\'Y 



The fifth and sixth awards of the Langley Gold Medal for Aero- 

 dromics to Charles Matthews Manly (posthumously) and to Com- 

 mander (now Admiral) Richard Evelyn Byrd, United States Navy, 

 were made at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Regents of the 

 Institution on December 12, 1929. The medal had been hitherto 

 awarded four times, to Wilbur and Orville "Wright, to Glenn H. 

 Curti.ss, to Gustave EilFel, and to Charles A. Liiidltergli. The award 



