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Taiwan"; Dr. Richard S. Cowan on "Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean 

 Expedition of 1959"; Dr. William C. Sturtevant on "Agriculture of 

 the Seminole"; and Dr. Fred L. Wliipple on "Scientific Results from 

 Satellite Tracking." 



The annual meeting was held on January 15, 1960. The Secretary 

 presented his publislied annual report on the activities of the Insti- 

 tution together with the 1959 Annual Report of the United States 

 National Museum. The Chairman of the Executive and Permanent 

 Committees of the Board, Dr. Robert V. Fleming, gave the financial 

 report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1959. 



In addition to the annual meeting, the Board of Regents met agam 

 on May 4, 19G0. The Secretary presented a brief interim report, and 

 the Chairman of the Executive and Permanent Committees of the 

 Board presented a financial report. This meeting was followed by an 

 inspection of some of the new exhibits of the Smithsonian. 



FINANCES 



A statement on finances, dealing particularly with Smithsonian 

 private funds, will be found in the report of the executive committee 

 of the Board of Regents, page 214. Funds appropriated to the Insti- 

 tution for its regular operations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1960, 

 totaled $7,718,000. Besides this direct appropriation, the Institution 

 received funds by transfer from other Government agencies as follows : 



From the District of Columbia for the National Zoological Park $1, 165, 200 



From the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, for the 

 River Basin Surveys 122, 055 



VISITORS 



Visitors to the Smithsonian group of buildings on the Mall reached 

 a total of 6,494,630, an all-time liigh and 143,000 more than the pre- 

 vious year. April 1960 was the month of largest attendance, with 

 1,070,709; May 1960 second, with 1,007,442; July 1959 third, with 

 941,397. Table 1 gives a summai-y of the attendance records for the 

 five buildings; table 2, groups of school children. These figures, 

 when added to the 951,608 recorded at the National Gallery of Art and 

 the 4,059,804 estimated at the National Zoological Park, bring the 

 year's total number of visitors at the Institution to 11,506,042. 



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