REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. XXV 



Publications and tlieir distribution: 



Contributions to knowledge $73. 00 



Reports 482.02 



Miscellaneous collections 5. 094. 90 



Publication supplies 58. o7 



Salaries (5, 319. 00 



$12, 027. 35 



Explorations and researcbes 1,054. 0<) 



Ilodgkins specific fund: 



Kesearebes and publications .">, 90( >. Oti 



International exchanges 2. 110. 78 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: 



Salaries 3, 700. 34 



Supplies 15.3.38 



3, 913. 72 



Legal expenses 1, 009. 82 



Obituary expenses, Secretary Langley » 1,080.81 



Rills jKivable 10, 000. 00 



$02, 032. 18 



Balance June 30, 1900, deposited with the Cnited States Tre:is- 



urer 10. 184. 13 



All monevs received by the Smithsonian Institution from interest, 



sales, refunding of moneys temporarily advanced, or otherwise, are 



deposited with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of 



the Institution, and all payments are made by checks signed by the 



Secretary. 



Your committee also presents the following statements in regard 



to the appropriations and expenditures for objects intrusted by Con- 

 gress to the care of the Smithsonian Institution, based on expendi- 

 tures by the disbursing agent and audited by the Auditor for the 

 State and other Departments. 



Detailed statement of dishursements jrom appropriations coiinnittcd Inj Coiif/ress 

 to the care of the Smithsonian Institution for the fiscal near end in;/ June SO, 

 IDOG, and from halanccs of former ijearx. 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1906. 



RECEIPTS. 



Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900 : 

 " For expenses of tbe system of international exchanges between 

 the United States and foreign countries under tbe direction of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, including salaris or compensation of all 

 necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and peri- 

 odicals " (sundry civil act, March 3, 1905) $28,800.00 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Salaries or compensation : 



1 assistant secretary, at $225 $2,700.00 



1 clerk, at $150 1.800.00 



2 clerks, at $125 1,750.00 



