SECRETARY'S REPORT 7 



FINANCES 



A statement on finances, dealing particularly with Smithsonian 

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

 of the Board of Regents, page 169. 



APPROPRIATIONS 



Funds appropriated to the Institution for the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1954, total $3,000,000, obligated as follows : 



Mnnagement $56, 134 



United States National Museum 1,092,723 



Bureau of American Ethnology 63, 150 



Astropbysical Observatory 111, 176 



National Collection of Fine Arts 43,839 



National Air Museum 144,602 



International Exchange Service 87,028 



Canal Zone Biological Area 7,880 



Maintenance and operation of buildings 1,089,131 



Other general services 301,332 



Unobligated 505 



Reserve ( Bureau of the Budget) 2, 500 



Total 3, 000, 000 



Besides these direct appropriations, the Institution received funds 

 by transfer from other Government agencies as follows : 



From the District of Columbia for the National Zoological Park $660, 000 



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

 River Basin Surveys 71,495 



VISITORS 



Visitors to the Smithsonian group of buildings during the year 

 1953-54 reached a record total of 3,658,881, approximately a quarter of 

 a million more than the previous year. April 1954 was the month of 

 largest attendance, with 585,956; May 1954 was second, with 513,626; 

 August 1953 third, with 448,956. Largest attendance for a single day 

 was 55,305 for May 8, 1954. Table 1 gives a summary of the attendance 

 records for the five buildings. These figures, when added to the 

 3,616,220 estimated visitors at the National Zoological Park and 

 887,213 at the National Gallery of Art, make a total number of visitors 

 at the Smithsonian Institution of 8,162,314. 



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