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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1962 



tution for its regular operations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1962, 

 totaled $9,125,000. Besides this direct appropriation, the Institution 

 received funds bj transfer from other Government agencies as follows : 

 From the District of Columbia for the National Zoological Park, 

 $1,387,600; from the National Park Service, Department of the In- 

 terior, for the River Basin Surveys, $231,705. 



VISITORS 



Visitors to the Smithsonian group of buildings on the JMall reached 

 a total of 8,923,131, an all-time high and 1,819,657 more than for the 

 previous year. April 1962, with 1,490,262, was the month of largest 

 attendance; August 1961 second, with 1,335,189; May 1962 third, with 

 1,160,980. Table 1 gives a sinnmaiy of the attendance records for the 

 five buildings ; table 2, groups of school children. The figures are all 

 actual counts and are not estimates. No fully satisfactoiy plan for 

 an actual count of visitors to the National Zoological Park has been 

 developed. Under the new plan of estimating, the number of visitors 

 during the year covered by this report indicates an attendance at the 

 Zoo of 2,035,000. When this figure is added to the figure for at- 

 tendance in the Institution's buildings on the Mall, and to the 1,332,506 

 recorded at the National Gallery of Art, the total Smithsonian at- 

 tendance for 1962 may be set at 12,290,637. 



Table 1. — Visitors to certain Smithsonian buildings during the year ended 



June SO, 1962 



