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The practice of maintaining savings accounts in several of the 

 Washington banks and trust companies has been continued during the 

 past year, and interest on these deposits amounted to $10,704.92. 



Deposits are made in banks for convenience in collection of checks, 

 and later such funds are withdrawn and deposited in the United 

 States Treasury. Disbursement of funds is made by check signed 

 by the Secretary of the Institution and drawn on the United States 

 Treasury. 



The Institution gratefully acknowledges gifts and grants from the 

 following : 



Mr. Claude C. Adams, gift to establish "The Harry Higbee Memorial Fund." 

 American Philosophical Society, grant for an eastern Ecuador archeological 



project of Clifford Evans and Betty J. Meggers. 

 American Philosophical Society and National Science Foundation, grants-in-aid 



for archeological research in Shanidar Cave, Northern Iraq. 

 Atomic Energy Commission, additional grant for the study of specific biological 



indicators of ionizing radiation and the mechanism of the action of such 



radiation. 

 Atomic Energy Commission, additional grant for the purpose of conducting a 



biochemical investigation of photomorphogenesis in green plants. 

 Atomic Energy Commission, grant for tritium, helium-3, and meteorite research. 

 Mrs. Laura D. Barney, additional gift for the Alice Pike Barney Memorial Fund. 

 Bollingen Foundation, Inc., gift for the purpose of publishing color illustrations 



for a manuscript by Elsie Clews Parsons. 

 Mr. and Mrs. J. Bruce Bredin, gifts for the Smithsonian-Bredin Expeditions 



Fund. 

 Carter Oil Company, grant for a research project on echinoid spines. 

 Carter Oil Company and Gulf Oil Corporation, grants for the Planktonic 



Foraminifera Project. 

 Colortone Press, grant to be used to defray the pre-press production costs 



of a booklet, "Adventure in Science at the Smithsonian." 

 Committee of the Weston United Nations Paintings, gift for the purchase, 



maintenance, and circulation of the six paintings depicting scenes during 



the construction of the United Nations buildings. 

 General Electric Company, gift to purchase the original Rontgen X-ray tube. 

 Geological Society of America, Inc., grant for the purpose of bringing Dr. 



Muir-Wood to the United States for collaboration for the revision of the 



manuscript on "The Morphology, Classification, and Life-Habits of the 



Productoidea." 

 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, gift to assist the publication 



of "The Customs and Religion of the Ch'iang," by D. C. Graham. 

 E. P. Henderson, gift for editorial assistance in preparing notes on studies on 



meteorites. 

 Frank Morton Jones, gift to be used to further a project looking toward 



revisional study of lepidopterous family Psychidae. 

 Kevorkian Foundation, gift to the Freer Gallery of Art. 



Edwin A. Link, additional gift for historical research (marine archeology). 

 The Link Foundation, grant for the purpose of preparing booklets, fllmstrips, 



slides, and other educational materials. 

 Malcolm MacGregor, additional gift for the Philatelic Fund. 



