SECRETARY'S REPORT 5 



financial report of the Executive Committee, for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1951, and this was accepted by the Board. The usual reso- 

 lution authorized the expenditure by the Secretary of the income of 

 the Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953. 



At the Chancellor's suggestion, the meeting of January 18 was re- 

 cessed until April 9, at which time the report of the special committee 

 to select a successor to the Secretary was given before the full Board. 

 Robert V. Fleming, chairman of the special committee, presented the 

 resolution electing Dr. Leonard Carmichael, president of Tufts Col- 

 lege, Medford, Mass., as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 effective on January 1, 1953. 



Dr. Wetmore, who retires from administrative duties at his own 

 request, will continue his scientific work with the Institution, under 

 the title of research associate. 



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 169. 



APPROPRIATIONS 



Funds appropriated to the Institution for the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1952, total $2,553,200, obligated as follows : 



Management $63, 051 



United States National Museum 780,260 



Bureau of American Ethnology 62, 890 



Astrophysical Observatory 116, 223 



National Collection of Fine Arts 47, 265 



National Air Museum 177, 147 



Canal Zone Biological Area 16, 647 



International Exchange Service 74, 678 



Maintenance and operation of buildings 893, 851 



General services 319,084 



Estimated savings 2,104 



Total - 2, 553, 200 



In addition, $1,240,000 was appropriated to the National Gallery of 

 Art, a bureau of the Institution but administered by a separate board 

 of trustees ; and $620,800 was provided in the District of Columbia ap- 

 propriation act for the operation of the National Zoological Park. 



Besides these direct appropriations, the Institution received funds 

 by transfer from other Federal agencies, as follows : 



From the Department of State, from the appropriation Interna- 

 tional Information and Educational Activities, 1952, a total of $42,000 

 for the period July 1 through December 31, 1951, for the planning and 



