REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 75 



EXPENDITURES FOR RESEARCHES IN PURE SCIENCE, EXPLORATIONS, 

 CARE, INCREASE, AND STUDY OF COLLECTIONS, ETC. 



Expenditures from general funds of the Institution: 



Publications $18, 035. 98 



Researches and explorations 23, 001. 50 



— — — $41, 037. 48 



Expenditures from funds devoted to specific purposes: 



Researches and explorations 39, 737. 54 



Care, increase, and study of special collections. 15, 057. 46 



Publications 2, 023. 93 



• 56, 818. 93 



Total , 97,856. 41 



The practice of depositing on time in local trust companies and 

 banks such revenues as may be spared temporarily has been con- 

 tinued during the past year, and interest on these deposits has 

 amounted to $1,106.47. 



The Institution gratefully acknowledges gifts or bequests from the 

 following: 



Dr. W. L. Abbott, purchase of collections of certain birds of the Himalayas. 



Dr. Adolph M. Hanson, further income from certain royalties for conducting 

 scientific work of the Institution. 



Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, publication of papers on Foraminifera. 



Mr. Eldridge R. Johnson, for expenses in connection with deep-sea and other 

 oceanographic explorations. 



Mrs. Mary Vaux Walcott, for publication of pitcher-plant volume of North 

 American Wild Flowers. 



Research Corporation, further contributions for researches in radiation. 



Dr. William Schaus, collection of Lepidoptera. 



Mr. John A. Roebling, further contributions for researches in radiation. 



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 arc 

 withdrawn in round amounts and deposited in the Treasury. 



The foregoing report relates only to the private funds of the In- 

 stitution. 



The following appropriations were made by Congress for the 

 Government bureaus under the administrative charge of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution for the fiscal year 1934. 



Salaries and expenses $32, 500 



International Exchanges 38, 500 



American Ethnology 50, 000 



Astrophysical Observatory 26, 500 



National Museum: 



Maintenance and operation $128, 500 



Preservation of collections 509, 000 



637. 500 



