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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1917. 



Your committee has approved of the deposit on time in strong 

 Washington banks and trust companies of a part of its cash re- 

 sources not immediately required, and has been able to obtain inter- 

 est thereon at the rate of 3 per cent per annum. It is believed 

 that approximately $1,000 can be added each year to the revenues 

 of the Institution by this procedure. 



Your committee also presents the following summary of appro- 

 priations for the fiscal year 1917, intrusted by Congress to the care 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, balances of previous appropriations 

 at the beginning of the fiscal year, and amounts unexpended on 

 June 30, 1917. 



International Exchanges, 191.5 



International Exchanges, 1916 



International Exchanges, 1917 



American Ethnology, 1915 



American Ethnology, 1916 ! 



American Ethnology, 1917 



International Catalogue, 1915 



International Catalogue, 1916 



International Catalogue, 1917 



Astrophysical Observatory, 1915 



Astrophysical Observatory, 1916 



Astrophysical Observatory, 1917 : 



Bookstacks for Government bureau libraries, 1915 



Bookstacks for Government bureau libraries, 1915-16 



Tower telescope on Mount Wilson, 1915 



R epairs to Smithsonian building, 1915 



National Museum: 



Furnitiu-e and fixtures, 1915 



Furniture and fixtures, 1916 



Furniture and fixtiu-es, 1917 



Heating and lighting, 1915 



Heating and lighting, 1916 



Heating and lighting, 1917 



Preservation of collections, 1915 



Preservation of collections, 1916 



Preservation of collections, 1917 



Books, 1915 



Books, 1916 



Books, 1917 



Postage, 1917 



Building repairs, 1915 



Building repairs, 1916 



Building repairs, 1917 



National Zoological Park, 1915 



National Zoological Park, 1916 



National Zoological Park, 1917 



I Carried to credit of surplus fund. 



Available 



alter 

 July 1,1916, 



$0.20 

 , .584. 17 

 ,000.00 

 ,119.04 

 , 897. 78 

 ,000.00 

 198. 39 

 549. 81 

 ,500.00 



46.35 



,522.31 



,000.00 



1.09 



64.16 

 410.23 

 176.88 



13.34 

 941.95 

 000.00 

 109,63 

 852. 65 

 000.00 

 278.34 

 695. 91 

 000.00 

 115.60 

 157.49 

 000.00 

 500.00 

 1.32 

 298.58 

 000.00 

 .83 

 653. 99 

 000.00 



Balance 



June 30, 



1917. 



'SO. 20 



4,957.76 



» 819. 84 



334.97 



1,523.28 



282.96 

 466.00 

 146.35 

 38.06 

 1,051.32 

 >1.09 

 62.12 



U76.88 



113.34 



11.36 



2,246.79 



1 109. 63 



202. 67 



5,374.93 



11,214.70 



1,777.93 



6,371.60 



186.88 



235.31 



911.13 



11.33 

 3.62 



2, 120. 83 

 1 .83 

 9.38 



2,402,35 



