REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 115 
This was distributed as follows: 
INGO WENO M be LIN Oe ei ee oe ce eee eee op ee bere $9, 127. 36 
Smithsonian Institution emergency fund_--___________ 2, 281. 84 
Smithsonian Institution unrestricted fund, general_____ 6, 845. 51 
AST EIS SDs Ota STNG Sr aie, eee JOR Ia eee ne 2,895. 60 
21, 150. 31 
Included in the foregoing are expenditures for researches in pure 
science, publications, explorations, care, increase, and study of col- 
lections, etc., as follows: 
Expenditures from general funds of the Institution: 
TENE ROY E CEE ETAT oF yen a i ces ON Ee pret ites ee or a $31, 943. 79 
Researches and explorations»______--____-__-_____- 11, 703. 21 
$438, 647. 00 
Expenditures from funds devoted to specific purposes: 
Researches and explorations____._.__...____________- 29, 355. 18 
Care, increase, and study of special collections______ 7, 422. 06 
TE RCH CLONE ence eee tee ae Me ne tei Les Yet 7, 984. 60 
44, 761. 84 
ENG) ee SR a ee ee See 88, 408. 84 
The practice of depositing on time in local trust companies and 
banks such revenues as may be spared temporarily has been continued 
during the past year, and interest on these deposits has amounted to 
$657.15. 
The Institution gratefully acknowledges gifts or bequests from the 
following: 
Carnegie Institution, for the support and maintenance of diatom studies. 
’ Thomas G. Corcoran, toward the purchase of portrait of George Washington 
Carver. 
Edith F. B. and George B. Engelhardt, for assistance in publication of bulletin 
by the late George B. Engelhardt. 
Friends of Dr. Albert S. Hitchcock, for the Hitchcock Agrostological Library. 
John A. Roebling, further contributions for research in radiation. 
All payments are made by check, signed by the Secretary of the 
Institution on the Treasurer of the United States, and all revenues are 
deposited to the credit of the same account. In many instances depos- 
its are placed in bank for convenience of collection and later are with- 
drawn in round amounts and deposited in the Treasury. 
The foregoing report relates only to the private funds of the 
Institution. 
The following annual appropriations were made by Congress for 
the Government bureaus under the administrative charge of the Smith- 
sonian Institution for the fiscal year 1944. 
Demure ann cnennes, 1064 03 eee a $1, 129, 040. 00 
National Zoolofical Park.) C., L0s4.2 25 270, 180. 00 
Cooperation with the American Republics (transfer to the Smith- 
BOM AN MUSULUITLON))s) MOte coe as kee Sot eS ee ae 77, 000. 00 
