REPORT OF THE ACTING SECRETARY. 



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for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, are shown in the following 

 table : 



Estimates. Appropria- 

 tions. 



International Exchanges 



American Ethnology 



Astrophysical Observatory 



National Museum: 



Furniture and fixtures 



Heating and lighting 



Preservation of collections 



Purchase of specimens 



Books 



Building repairs 



Rent of workshops 



Postage 



Sunday and night opening 



New building for the National Mu-uum 



National Zoological Park 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 



Protection and excavation, ruin of Casa Grande, Arizona. 



Total 



828, 800. 00 

 50, 000. 00 

 15, 000. 00 



22, 500. 00 



18, 000. 00 



210, 000. 00 



10,000.00 



5, 000. 00 



15, 000. 00 



4, 580. 00 



500. 00 



11,708.80 



750, 000. 00 



118, 000. 00 



6,000.00 



S2,S, 800 

 40,000 

 14,000 



20, 000 



18,000 



180, 000 



2,000 



15, 000 



4,580 



500 



500, 000 

 95,000 

 5,000 

 3,000 



1,261,088.80 



925, 880 



RESEARCHES. 



The fact that at the beginning of the fiscal j^ear there were no 

 funds to the credit of the current income of the Institution rendered 

 it prudent that new research work should not be entered upon until 

 at least a slight surplus to the credit of the Institution should 

 have been accumulated in the Treasviry. Accordingly, no enter- 

 prises of this character were initiated during the year, and for the 

 same reason publications in the Smithsonian series proper were 

 suspended for several months. Such investigations as were in 

 progress, however, were continued, and all obligations which had 

 been incurred for grants or publications were met. 



SMITHSONIAN GRANTS. 



Prof. A. M. Reese, of Syracuse University, who had received a 

 moderate grant from the Institution for the purpose of collecting 

 material for an embryological study of the alligator, submitted 

 in August, 1905, an interesting account of the results of his field 

 work in Florida. A series of nearly 300 embryos was gathered, 

 comprising practically all the stages of development except the 

 very early ones, which Professor Reese proposes to obtain later. 

 Strangely enough, very little has been made known regarding the 

 embryology of this large reptile, once so common in our southern 



