EEPORT OF THE SECRETARY O 



Increase of endowment: 



Endowment for general work of the Institution $108, 020. 39 



Endowment for specific uses 7,430.71 



Total 115, 451. 10 



FBEEB GALLERY OF ART 



Expendable income for fiscal year: Cash income for general work 



of the gallery 281, 476. 85 



The practice of depositing on time in local trust companies and 

 banks such revenues as may be spared temporarily has been con- 

 tinued during the past year, and interest on these deposits has 

 amounted to $5,364.02. 



The Institution gratefully acknowledges gifts or bequests from 

 the following: 



Dr. W. L. Abbot, for archeological investigations in Cuba and the Bahama 

 Islands. 



Mrs. Laura Welsh Casey, further contributions to the Thomas Lincoln Casey 

 fund for investigations in Coleoptera. 



The estate of Dwight W. Morrow, for general endowment fund of the 

 Institution. 



Mr. Childs Frick, further contributions for researches in vertebrate 

 paleontology. 



Research Corporation, for further contributions for researches in radiation. 



Rockefeller Foundation, for further contributions for researches in radiation. 



Mr. John A. Roebling, for further contributions for researches in radiation. 



The estate of William H. Rollins, for investigations in physics and chemistry. 



Mrs. Mary Vaux Walcott, for archeological investigations in Alaska. 



From an anonymous friend, for further investigations in Old World 

 archeology. 



PUBLIC FUNDS 



The following appropriations were made by Congress for the 

 Government bureaus under the administrative charge of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution for the fiscal year 1932 : 



Salaries and expenses $38,644.00 



Gellatly art collection 20, 000. 00 



International Exchanges 54,060.00 



American Ethnology 72, 640. 00 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 8, 150. 00 



Astrophysical Observatory 37, 620. 00 



National Museum : 



Maintenance and operation^ $154,580.00 



Preservation of collections* 620, 510. 00 



775, 090. 00 



National Gallery of Art 45,220.00 



National Zoological Park 255,540.00 



1 Former appropriations " Furniture and fixtures," " Heating and lighting," and 

 " Building repairs " provided for under this .nppropriation. 



2 E'ormer appropriations " Books " and " Postage " merged with " Preservation of collec- 

 tions " and provided for under this appropriation. 



