126 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 19 3 8 



EXPENDITURES FOR RESEARCHES IN PURE SCIENCE, PUBLICATIONS, EXPLORA- 

 TIONS, CARE, INCREASE, AND STUDY OF COLLECTIONS, ETC. 



Expenditures from general funds of the Institution : 



Publications *J»' Jjjj" ™ 



Researches and explorations 31, 44b. bu ^ ^ 



Expenditures from funds devoted to specific purposes : 



Researches and explorations 58 > 40 °- ™ 



Care, increase, and study of special collections 10, 191. 15 



1 ' .. „ 1,620.96 



Publications _____ ^ __ gg 



„, t , 120,974.27 



Total 



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 



$903.14. mm , t . ' 



The Institution gratefully acknowledges gifts or bequests from the 



following : 



Friends of Dr. Albert S. Hitchcock, for establishment and care of the 



Hitchcock Agrostological Library. 

 Research Corporation, further contributions for research in radiation. 

 John A. Roebling, further contributions for research in radiation. 

 Mrs. Mary Vaux Walcott, for purchase of certain specimens. 

 Laurence L. Wilson, for archeological investigations in Texas. 

 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 

 deposits are placed in bank for convenience of collection and later are 

 withdrawn in round amounts and deposited in the Treasury. 



The foregoing report relates only to the private funds of the Insti- 

 tution. _ » 



The following annual appropriations were made by Congress lor 

 the Government bureaus under the administrative charge of the 

 Smithsonian Institution for the fiscal year 1938 : 



$36, 330 



Salaries and expenses 44 ^ 



International Exchanges ' 73Q 



American Ethnology ' g _ 



Astrophysical Observatory 



National Museum: $144 840 



Maintenance and operation flnqUao 



Preservation of collections ^609^SO ^ 



34 275 

 National Collection of Fine Arts ' ^ 



Printing and binding ^J 000 



National Zoological Park ' 



„, A , 1, 248, 665 



Total 



