164 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1953 



In many instances, deposits are made in banks for convenience in 

 collection of checks, and later such funds are withdrawn and deposited 

 in the United States Treasury. Disbursement of funds is made by 

 check signed by the Secretary of the Institution and drawn on the 

 United States Treasury. 



The foregoing report relates only to the private funds of the 

 Institution. 



The Institution gratefully acknowledges gifts from the following : 



Brittain Thompson. 



Laura D. Barney, additional gift for the Alice Pike Barney memorial fund. 



Rose Banon. 



Robert M. de Calry, 



Guggenheim Foundation, grant for Honey Guide Bird Publication. 



E. A. Link, Link Aviation Corporation, additional gift for historical research 



(marine archeology). 

 Dr. R. C. Moore, for illustrations fund for Foraminifera. 



National Science Foundation, for research. Descriptive Flora of the Fiji Islands. 

 National Science Foundation, grant for foreign exchanges. 

 Edward W. Nelson, for biological studies. 



National Geographic Society, for archeological work in Panama. 

 Research Corporation, for Canal Zone Biological Area. 



The following appropriations were made by Congress for the Gov- 

 ernment bureaus under the administrative charge of the Smithsonian 

 Institution for the fiscal year 1953 : 



Salaries and expenses $2,419,500.00 



National Zoological Park 615,000.00 



In addition, funds were transferred from other departments of the 

 Government for expenditure under the direction of the Smithsonian 

 Institution as follows: 



Working fund (transferred to the Smithsonian Institution by the 



Institute of Inter-American Affairs) $24,287.37 



Working funds, transferred from the National Park Service, Interior 

 Department, for archeological investigations in river basins 

 throughout the United States 122, 700. 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. O., September 8, 1953. 



To THE BOAED OF REGENTS, 



SmithHonian Institution, 

 Washington 25, D. C: 



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

 private endowment funds and gifts (but 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, 1953. Our examina- 



