XXVIII EEPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



General expenses — Continued. 



Postage, telephone, and telegraph $132.70 



Rental 1,500.00 



Special services 1,753.25 



Specimens G05. 00 



Stationery 530.44 



Supplies 494.00 



Travel and held expenses 1, 704. 54 



$0, 877. 71 



Total disbursements $39,377. 72 



Balance July 1, lOOC. to meet outstanding liabilities < 122. 28 



AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, SMITHSONIAN IXSTITFTION, lOOr,. 



Balance July 1, 1905, as per last report $043.26 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Freight $59. 57 



Furniture 10. 07 



Lighting 83. 40 



Miscellaneous 52. 55 



Postage, telephone, and telegraph 07.43 



Rental 125. 00 



Special services 2<i. (JO 



Stationery, books, etc 130. 50 



Supplies 37. 99 



Travel and field expenses 45. (iO 



Total disbursements 038. 86 



Balance July 1, 190(;. to meet outstanding liabilities 4. 40 



AMERICAN ETIINOLO(n', SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1004. 



Balance July 1. 1905, as per last report $75. 70 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Freight 7. 07 



Balance 68.03 



Balance carried under i>rovisions of Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the 

 Treasury Department, to the credit of the surplus fund. June 30. 1!M)(!. 



ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1906. 



RECEIPTS. 



Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906: 

 " For maintenance of Astroithysical Observatory, under the direc- 

 tion of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assist- 

 ants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, 

 making necessary observations in high altitudes, printing and pub- 

 lishing results of researches, not exceeding 1,500 copies, repairs 

 and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $15,000 " 

 (sundry civil act, March 3, 1905) $1.5,000.00 



