REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF 

 REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE 

 YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1924 



To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: 



Your executive committee respectfully submits the following report 

 in relation to the funds, receipts, and disbursements of the Institu- 

 tion and a statement of the appropriations by Congress for the 

 National Museum, the International Exchanges, the Bureau of Amer- 

 ican Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, the Astrophysical 

 Observatory, the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, 

 and the National Gallery of Art for the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1924. 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



Condition of the fund July i, WBJ^. 



The sum of $1,000,000 deposited in the Treasury of the United 

 States under act of Congress is a permanent fund, having been ac- 

 cumulated by the deposit of savings and bequests from time to time. 

 Subsequent bequests and gifts and the income therefrom, when so 

 required, are invested in approved securities. The several specific 

 funds so invested are now constituted and classed as follows : 



CoHxolidntcd fund 



Avery fund $29, 557. 52 



Virginia Purdy Bacon fund 50,362.34 



Lucy H. Baird fund 1,349.58 



Chamberlain fund .34, 952. 27 



Hamilton fund 500. 00 



Caroline Henry fund 1,074.00 



Hodgkins general fund 37,226.57 



Bruce Hughes fund 12,013.62 



Morris Loeb fund 7,390.00 



Lucy T. and George W. Poore fund 13, 238. 86 



Addison T. Reid fund 4,919.00 



Rhees fund 268. 00 



George K. Sanford fund 506. 00 



Smithson fund 1, 468. 74 



Total consolidated fund 194, 826. 50 



Charles D. and Mary Vaux Walcott research fund 11, 520. 00 



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