il4 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1940 



EXPENDITURES FOR RESEARCHES IN PUKE SCIENCE, PUBLICATIONS, EXPLORA- 

 TIONS, CARE, INCREASE, AND STUDY OF COLLECTIONS, ETC. 



Espenrliture.s from general funds of the Institution: 



Publications $18, 574. 05 



Researches and explorations 26,477.02 



$45, 051. 07 



Expenditures from funds devoted to specific purposes : 



Researches and explorations 49, 692. 56 



Care, increase, and study of special collections 13, 453. 86 



Publications 3, 469. 12 



66, 615. 53 



Total 111,666.60 



The practice of depositing on time in local trust companies and banks 



such revenues as may be spared temporarily has been continued during 



the past year, and interest on these deposits has amounted to $1,022.34. 



The Institution gratefully acknowledges gifts or bequests from the 



following : 



Friends of Dr. Albert S. Hitchcock, for establishment and care of the 



Hitchcock Agrostological Library. 

 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., for expedition to Liberia for the collection of 



living wild animals. 

 Research Corporation, further contributions for research in radiation. 

 John A. Roebling, further contributions for research in radiation. 

 Mrs. Mary Vaux Walcott, for purchase of certain specimens. 

 Eleanor E. Witherspoon, for Thomas A. Witherspoon Memorial for the 



advancement of human knowledge. 



All payments are made by check, signed by the Secretary of the In- 

 stitution on the Treasurer of the United States, and all revenues are 

 deposited to the credit of the same account. In many instances de- 

 posits are placed in bank for convenience of collection and later are 

 withdrawn in round amounts and deposited in the Treasury. 



The foregoing report relates only to the private funds of the Insti- 

 tution. 



The following annual appropriations were made by Congress for 

 the Government bureaus under the administrative charge of the 

 Smithsonian Institution for the fiscal year 1940 : 



General Expenses $356, 620. 00 



(This combines under one heading the appropriations hereto- 

 fore made for Salaries and Expenses, International Ex- 

 changes, American Ethnology, Astrophysical Observatory, 

 and National Collection of Fine Ai'ts of the Smithsonian 

 Institution and for Maintenance and Operation of the 

 United States National Museum.) 



Preservation of collections 628,800.00 



Printing and binding 73, 000. 00 



National Zoological Park 237,060.00 



Total 1, 295, 480. 00 



In addition to the above an appropriation of $270,000 was made in 

 the Third Deficiency Act, 1939, for the installation of an alternating- 

 current electric system in the Smithsonian Institution buildings. 



