6 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
of the Board of Regents, page 234. Funds appropriated to the Insti- 
tution for its regular operations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 
1959, totaled $7,587,800. Besides this direct appropriation, the Insti- 
tution received funds by transfer from other Government agencies as 
follows: 
From tke District of Columbia for the National Zoological Park______ $953, 800 
From the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, for the 
River: Basin SUBVGY see 2 a ee ee eee 162, 000 
VISITORS 
Visitors to the Institution’s exhibition halls continue to increase. 
Visitors to the Smithsonian group of buildings on the Mall reached a 
total of 6,351,352, an all-time high and nearly a million more than the 
previous year. April 1959 was the month of largest attendance, with 
978,230; May 1959 second, with 867,817; August 1958 third, with 769,- 
086. Largest attendance for a single day was 92,945 on April 12, 
1959. Table 1 gives a summary of the attendance records for the 
five buildings; table 2, groups of schoolchildren. ‘These figures, when 
added to the 951,608 visitors recorded at the National Gallery of Art 
and the 4,055,673 estimated at the National Zoological Park, bring 
the year’s total number of visitors at the Institution to 11,358,633. 
TaBLE 1.—Visitors to certain Smithsonian’ buildings during the year ended June 80, 
1959 
Smithsonian Arts and Natural Aircraft Freer 
Year and month Building Industries History Building | Building Total 
Building Building 
1958 
hh eee See eee 105, 654 310, 882 150, 153 | 97,050 | 12, 872 676, 611 
AI CUS Ge ee 141, 457 312, 426 175, 188 }125, 124 | 14, 891 769, 086 
September _ ___ 49, 885 122, 427 68, 848 | 40, 766 8, 682 290, 608 
Octobers2= 45, 002 PRS 621! 96, 748 | 34, 129 7, 502 299, 002 
November____| 55,269 | 127,064] 146,618 | 38,483] 7,488] 374,922 
December___-_-_ 27, 724 57, 956 Gos 2208 e208 22i1 4,018 183, 139 
1959 
vanwanye see 32, 672 C2 Dili 86, 980 | 25, 461 6, 248 223, 876 
February == -_- 46, 899 103, 074 109, 682 | 36, 037 6, 218 301, 910 
Mian ehweaeee 110, 821 229, 864 209, 894 | 69, 695 | 10, 825 631, 099 
Apress 3-252 170, 520 392, 353 303, 991 | 96, 800 | 14, 566 978, 230 
Mitsivaees eee ere: 139, 186 301, 701 319, 018 | 95, 398 | 12, 514 867, 817 
Wincea saa es 126, 039 286, 978 217, 407 |111, 119 | 13, 509 755, 052 
Motalc. ase 1, 051, 128 |2, 432, 861 |1, 957, 747 |790, 283 |119, 333 |6, 351, 352 
