SECRETARY'S REPORT 5 



APPROPRIATIONS 



Funds appropriated to the Institution for the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1951, totaled $2,700,000, obligated as follows : 



Management $57, 322 



United States National Museum 781, 754 



Bureau of American Ethnology 57,297 



Astrophysical Observatory 127, 188 



National Collection of Fine Arts 48, 852 



National Air Museum 182,931 



Canal Zone Biological Area 18,000 



International Exchange Service 70,388 



ISIaintenance and operation of buildings 927,919 



General services 316,483 



Estimated savings 11,866 



Imi)ounded funds 100,000 



Total 2,700, 000 



Of this total $100,000 was impounded by the Bureau of the Budget 

 tiirough direction of the Congress. 



In addition, $1,170,000 was appropriated to the National Gallery of 

 Art, a bureau of the Institution but administered by a separate board 

 of trusteees; and $636,000 was provided in the District of Columbia 

 appropriation act for the operation of the National Zoological Park. 



Besides these direct appropriations, the Institution received funds 

 by transfer from other Federal agencies, as follows : 



From the State Department, from the appropriation International 

 Information and Educational Activities, 1951, a total of $92,740 for 

 the operation of the Institute of Social Anthropology, including the 

 issuance of publications resulting from its work. 



From the National Park Service, Department of Interior, $309,949 

 for archeological projects in connection with the River Basin Surveys. 



VISITORS 



Visitors to the Smithsonian buildings during the year 1950-51 to- 

 taled 2,867,544, an all-time record of attendance and about a 10-percent 

 increase over the previous year. July 1950 was the month of largest 

 attendance, with 383,919 visitors; May 1951 was the next largest, with 

 362,443. A summary of attendance records for the five buildings is 

 given in table 1. These do not include 3,460,400 visitors estimated at 

 the National Zoological Park and 1,503,148 at the National Gallery of 

 Art. 



