REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF 



REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE 



YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1917. 



To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: 



Your executive committee respectfully submits the following re- 

 port in relation to the funds, receipts, and disbursements of the 

 Institution, and a statement of the appropriations by Congress for 

 the National Museum, the International Exchanges, the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, the Astrophysi- 

 cal Observatory, and the International Catalogue of Scientific Liter- 

 ature for the year ending June 30, 1917, together with balances of 

 previous appropriations : 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 

 Condition of the fund July 1, 1917. 



Section 5591, Revised Statutes, reads as follows: 



The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to receive into the 

 Treasury, on the same terms as the original bequest of James Smithson, such 

 sums as the Regents may, from time to time, see fit to deposit, not exceeding, 

 with the original bequest, the sum of one million dollars. 



On July 18, 1916, and on January 11, 1917, two amounts of $2,000 

 each, consisting of savings from income, were deposited in the Treas- 

 ury of the United States and completed the total deposit of $1,000,000 

 allowed by law. The amount of each fund so deposited and drawing 

 interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum is given below : 



Smithson fund__ $727, 640. 00 



Habel fund 500. 00 



Hamilton fund 2, 500. 00 



Hodgkins fund 216,000. 00 



Rhees fund 590. 00 



Avery fund 14, 000. 00 



Addison T. Reid fund 11,000.00 



Lucy T. and George W. Poore fund 26, 670. 00 



George K. Sanford fund 1,100.00 



Total fund in United States Treasury 1, 000, 000. 00 



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