REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF 

 REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE 

 YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1915. 



To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: 



Your executive committee respectfully submits the following 

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

 Institution, and a statement of the appropriations by Congress for 

 the National ]\Iuseum, the International Exchanges, the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, the Astrophysi- 

 cal Observatory, and the International Catalogue of Scientific Lit- 

 erature for the year ending June 30, 1915, together with balances of 

 previous appropriations : 



SMITHSONIAN INSXITUTION. 



Condition of the fund July 7, 1915. 



The permanent fund of the Institution and the sources from which 

 it has been derived are as follows: 



DEPOSITED IN THE TKEASUKY OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Bequest of Smithson, 1846 $515, 169. 00 



Residuary legacy of Smithson, 1S67 .^ 26, 210. 63 



Deposit from savings of income, 1867 108, 620. 37 



Bequest of James Hamilton, 1875 $1, 000. 00 



Accumulated interest on Hamilton fund, 1895 1, 000. 00 



2, 000. 00 



Bequest of Simeon Habel, 1880 500. 00 



Deposits from proceeds of sale of bonds, 1881 51, 500. 00 



Gift of Thomas G. Hodgkins, 1891 200, 000. 00 



Part of residuary legacy of Thomas G. Hodgkins, 1894 8, 000. 00 



Deposit from savings of income, 1903 25, 000. 00 



Residuary legacy of Thomas G. Hodgkins, 1907 7,918.69 



Deposit from savings of income, 1913 636.94 



Part of bequest of William Jones Rhees, 1913 : 251. 95 



Deposit of proceeds from sale of real estate (gift of Robert Stan- 

 ton Avery), 1913 . 9,692.42 



Bequest of Addison T. Reid, 1914 4, 795. 91 



Deposit of savings from income of Avery bequest, 1914 204. 09 



Balance of bequest of William Jones Rhees, 1915 248. 05 



Deposit of savings from income of Rhees bequest, 1915 28. 39 



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