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REl^ORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



United States National Museum: 



Furniture an<l fixtures $17, 500 



Heating and lighting 17, 500 



Preservation of collections 180, 000 



Purchase of specimens 10, 000 



Postage 500 



Books 2, 000 



Rent of workshops 4, 040 



Repairs to l)uildings 15, 000 



Printing 17, 000 



-$263, 540 

 National Zoological Park 75, 000 



428, 540 

 All the vouchers for disbiirsements made during- the fiscal 

 year have l^een examined by the executive committee, and a 

 detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures will be 

 found reported to Congress in accordance with the provisions 

 of the sundry civil acts of October 2, 1888, August 5, 1892, 

 and March 3, 1899, in a letter addressed to the Speaker of 

 the Hoitse of Representatives. 



The vouchers for all the expenditures from the Smithsonian 

 fund proper have likewise been examined and their correctness 

 certified to by the executive committee, whose statement w^ill 

 be published, together with the accounts of the funds appro- 

 priated b}^ Congress, in the report of that committee. 



For carrying on the Government's interests under the 

 charge of the Smithsonian Institution for the fiscal year end- 

 ing Jiuie 30, 1902, estimates were forwarded as usual to the 

 Secretary of the Treasury-. The following table shows the 

 estimates submitted and the sums respectively appropriated: 



Estimates. 



Api)ropria- 

 tions. 



International Exchanges 



Amerioan Ethnology 



Astrophysical Observatory 



National Museum: 



Furniture and fixtures 



Heating and lighting 



New boilers 



Preservation of collections . 



Purchase of specimens 



Books 



Repairs to buildings 



Galleries 



Rent of workshops 



Postage 



Printing 



National Zoological Park 



124,000 

 GO, 000 

 15, 000 



20,000 



23,000 



12,500 



ISO, 000 



25, 000 



2, 000 



19, 500 



2, 500 



4,040 



600 



17,000 



120, 000 



»24,000 

 50, 000 

 12,000 



20,000 



2;i, 000 



12,500 

 180, 000 



10, 000 

 2,000 



15, 000 



5,000 



4,400 



500 



17, 000 



80,000 



