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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



United States National Museum: 



Furniture and 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 w< >rkshops 4, 040 



Repairs to buildings 15, 000 



Printing 17, 000 



$263, 540 



National Zoological Park 75, 000 



428, 540 

 All the vouchers for disbursements made during the fiscal 

 year have been 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 House of Representatives. 



The vouchors for all the expenditures from the Smithsonian 

 fund proper have likewise been examined and their correctness 

 certified to by the executive committee, whose statement will 

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

 priated by 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 June 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: 



International Exchanges 



American Ethnology 



Astrophysical I >bsen atory 



National Museum: 



Furniture and fixtures 



Seating and lighting 



New boilers 



Preservation of collections . 



Purchase of specimens 



Books 



Repairs to buildings 



Galleries 



Rent of workshops 



Postage 



Printing 



National Zoological Park 



