104 ANNUAL REPORT SMlTHSONLySI INSTITUTION, 194 2 



Expenditures from fuuds devoted to specific puiT)Oses : 



Researches and explorations $42,855.38 



Care, increase, and study of special collections 3, 253. 26 



Publications 4, 950. 98 



$51, 059. 62 



Total 77, 111. 04 



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 $263.06. 



The Institution gratefully aclmowledges gifts or bequests from the 



following : 



Research Corporation, further contributions for research in radiation. 

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

 Mary Vaux Walcott, bequest to augment the Charles D. and Mary Vaux 

 Walcott research fund. 



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

 Institution on the Treasurer of the United States, and all revenues 

 are deposited to the credit of the same account. In many instances 

 deposits 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 are withdrawn in round amounts and deposited in the Treasury.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 

 Institution. 



The following annual appropriations were made by Congress for 

 the Government bureaus under the administrative charge of the 

 Smithsonian Institution for the fiscal year 1942: 



General Expenses (including supplemental appropriation under the 



Ramspeck Act) $390, 404 



(This combines under one heading the appropriations heretofore 

 made for Salaries and Expenses, International Exchanges, 

 American Ethnology, Astrophysical Observatory, and National 

 Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian Institution, and for 

 Maintenance and Operation of the United States National 

 Museum. ) 

 Preservation of Collections (including supplemental appropriation 



under the Ramspeck Act) 636,118 



Printing and binding 88, 500 



National Zoological Park 239, 260 



Cooperation with the American Republics (transfer to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution) 56,500 



Total 1, 410, 782 



