REPORT OF THE EXErUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE HOARD OF 

 REGENTS OF THE SMFFHSONIAN INSTFrUTlON 



Foil THE Ykak Pending .Iune 80, 1891). 



To the Board of Regent.^ of tJw, Sniithsonian Institution : 



Your Executive Committee respectfully submits the following report 

 in relation to the funds of the Institution, the appropriations by Con- 

 gress, and the receipts and expenditures for the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, the U. S. National Museum, the International Exchanges, the 

 Bureau of Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, and the Astro- 

 physical Observatory for the 3'ear ending June 30, 1899, and balances 

 of former years: 



SMITHSONIAX INSTITUTION. 



Condition ((f the fund July J, 1899. 



The amount of the bequest of James Smithson deposited in the 

 Treasury of the United States, according to act of Congress of August 

 10, IS-tO, was 1515,16*^. To this was added by authority of Congress, 

 February 8, 1867, the residuary legacy of Smithson, savings from 

 income and other sources, to the amount of $134,831. 



To this also have been added a bequest from James Hamilton, of 

 Pennsylvania, of $1,000; a bequest of Dr. Simeon Hal)el, of New 

 York, of $500; the proceeds of the sale of Virginia bonds, $51,500; a 

 gift from Thomas G. Hodgkins, of New York, of $200,000 and $8,000, 

 being a portion of the residuarv legacy of Thomas (J. Hodgkins, and 

 $1,000, the accumulated interest on the Hamilton bequest, making in 

 all, as the permanent fund, $912,000. 



The Institution also holds the additional sum of $42,000, received 

 upon the death of Thomas G. Hodgkins, in registered West Shore 

 Kaihoad 4 per cent bonds, which were, l)v order of this committee, 

 under date of May 18, 1894, ])laced in the hands of the Secretary of 

 the Institution, to be held by him sut)ject to the conditions of said 

 order. 



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