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National Geographic Society, additional funds for expedition to western PanamS.. 



Neosho Grant, for Research in Material Culture, to be used for describing and 

 analyzing Blackfoot ceremonial objects in the Denver Art Museum and to 

 obtain additional data from the Indians on the Blood Reservation in Alberta, 

 Canada. 



Research Corporation, to cover costs of publication of an edition of the Spenceley 

 28-place logarithmic tables. 



Rockefeller Foundation, Institute of Social Anthropology-Sao Paulo Fund, to- 

 ward support of the Institution's joint program with the Escola Livre de Socio- 

 logia e Politics de Sao Paulo, in research, training, publications, and transla- 

 tions in the social sciences. 



Rockefeller Foundation, for mounting mites on slides for classification and filing. 



The following appropriations were made by Congress for the Gov- 

 ernment bureaus under the administrative charge of the Smithsonian 

 Institution for the fiscal year 1951 : 



Salaries and expenses $2, 700.000. 00 



National Zoological Park GS'i, 000. 00 



In addition, funds were transferred from other departments of the 

 Government for expenditure under the direction of the Smithsonian 

 Institution as follows: 



International Information and Educational Activities (transferred 

 to the Smithsonian Institution from the State Department) $92,740.00 



Working Fund, transferred from the National Park Service, Interior 

 Department, for archeological investigations in river basins 

 throughout the United States 174, 375. 00 



The Institution also administers a trust fund for partial support 

 of the Canal Zone Biological Area, located on Barro Colorado Island 

 in the Canal Zone. 



The report of the audit of the Smithsonian private funds follows : 



Washington, D. C, September 7, 1951 

 to the p>oapd of regents, 



Smithsonian Institution, 



Washington 25, D. C. 



We have examined the accounts of the Smithsonian Institution relative to its 

 private endowment funds and gifts (hut excluding the National Gallery of Art 

 and other departments, bureaus or operations administered by the Institution 

 under Federal appropriations) for the year ended June 30, 1951. Our examina- 

 tion was made in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, and 

 accordingly included such tests of the accounting records and such other auditing 

 procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. 



The Institution maintains its accounts on a cash basis and does not accrue in- 

 come and expenses. Land, buildings, furniture, equipment, works of art, living and 

 other sppcimens and certain sundry property are not included in the accounts of 

 the Institution. 



In our opinion, the accompanying financial statements present fairly the posi- 

 tion of the private funds and the cash investments thereof of the Smithsonian 

 Institution at June 30, 1951 (excluding the National Gallery of Art and other 



