b ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1932 



National Zoological Park, plans for building for small mammals $4, 500. 00 



Printing and binding 104,000.00 



Total 1, 415, 464. 00 



MATTERS OF GENEPtAL INTEREST 

 DWIGTIT W. MORROW BEQUEST 



Under the terms of the will of Dwight W. Morrow, former am- 

 bassador to Mexico and later United States Senator from New Jer- 

 sey, who died October 5, 1931, the Institution received a bequest of 

 $100,000. The legacy reads as follows : 



To the Smithsonian Institution, city of Washington, District of Columbia, 

 one hundred thousand dollars (.$100,000), to be part of its endowment funds. 



Mr. Morrow, who for several years was a member of the Board 

 of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, had taken an active inter- 

 est in its affairs. His generous bequest is a substantial indication 

 of that interest; it will be particularly valuable to the Institution 

 because it is unhampered by conditions in the application of its 

 income, making it possible to assign the additional funds thus pro- 

 vided to the researches most in need of assistance. 



RESEARCH CORPORATION AWARDS TO DOCTORS DOUGLASS AND ANTEVS 



In recognition of their outstanding scientific researches the fourth 

 and fifth Research Corporation awards of $2,500 each were made 

 through the Smithsonian Institution to Dr. Andrew Ellicott 

 Douglass and Dr. Ernst Antevs on December 18, 1931. The presen- 

 tation was made in the auditorium of the National Museum, the 

 exercises opening with an account of the Research Corporation and 

 its awards by the Secretary of the Institution, and informally by 

 Mr. Elon Hooker, a director of the corporation. This was followed 

 by the formal presentation by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, 

 chancellor of the Institution, and the recipients then delivered ad- 

 dresses on their researches. An account of the ceremony, together 

 with the full text of the addresses of Doctors Douglass and Antevs, 

 will be found in the general appendix to the Smithsonian Report for 

 1931. 



LECTURES 



Arthur Lecture. — The first lecture under the bequest of James 

 Arthur, received by the Institution in 1931, was given by Dr. Henry 

 Norris Russell, professor of astronomy at Princeton University, who 

 lectured on The Composition of the Sun, in the auditorium of the 

 National Museum on the evening of January 27, 1932. The lecture 

 is being published in the Smithsonian Report for 1931. 



Hamilton Lecture. — The sixth Hamilton Lecture was given on the 

 evening of March 30, 1932, also in the auditorium of the Museum, 



