REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 7 
Hstimates for the year ending June 30, 1911. 
fnterna tionally six Changes ss koe esse ee ee ee ee ee $32, 000 
AMeTI CAN EANOLO Sys. soos ae et eee SER ee ee Se 52, 000 
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature____________________ 7, 500 
ASELOD My SiCala ODSCL YAO y= = es ee eens oe ee ee 18, 000 
National Museum: 
UE CHneS ands fi ctuneSe o-oo ee nee Ee oe $125, 000 
eating and lie htine= 22 a aaa ee ee ee ee 60, 000 
Preservation of collections==—— 22-2 22522256 —2 2a 2 ae 400, 000 
BOOKS ies Soe oe oe ee eee ea ne ee eee 5, 000 
ES ed Chama gee AN Gee ee eS ee ee ee 15, 000 
IR OStAS Cpe ee eek ee ae 2s oe 500 
————___ 605, 500 
National Zoological Park: 
NiaviMmben am Cel CCl sae ss ae ey ee ee $110, 000 
AVIA GY SDULLOIN S22 eS os Se eke ee 80, 000 
RRO ACW ay Shan de WalicS esa e es ee ee ee 14, 000 
ReVaIstment OL VOUNGATICSS =] = oes eee eee 40, 000 
————__ 244, 000 
Printing and binding for the Institution and its branches___________ 72, 700 
HN) Getler res ee eae ee ees ec A ee ee 1, 031, 700 
EXPLORATIONS AND RESEARCHES. 
The resources of the Smithsonian Institution are at present too 
limited to permit of large grants for extensive explorations or inves- 
tigations, but as far as the income allows aid is given in various lines 
of research work, and it is sometimes found possible to engage in ex- 
peditions likely to accomplish important results. If funds could be 
obtained to be administered under the Institution, the scientific work 
of the Government might often be supplemented by original re- 
searches of a character that would hardly be undertaken by the Gov- 
ernment, and which would be of great service to humanity and to 
science. 
Through the National Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, 
and the Astrophysical Observatory the Institution has been enabled 
to carry on various important biological, ethnological, and astrophys- 
ical researches, which are mentioned elsewhere in this report. 
SMITHSONIAN AFRICAN EXPEDITION. 
Through the generosity of friends of the Smithsonian Institution, 
there was provided during the past year a special fund to pay for the 
outfitting and to meet the expenses of the naturalists on a hunting 
and collecting expedition to Africa under the direction of Col. Theo- 
dore Roosevelt. No part of the fund was derived from any govern- 
ment appropriation or from the income of the Institution. The spe- 
cial interest of the Institution in the expedition is the collection of 
biological material for the United States National Museum, 
45745°—sm 1909——2 
