REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 85 



Disbursements — Continued. 

 From Freer endowment : 



Operating expenses of the gallery, salaries, 



field expenses, etc $57, 908. 53 



Purchases of art objects 136, 141. 19 



Investments made from gain from sale, etc., 



of securities 278,962.32 



Reinvestment of cash capital from sale, call 



of securities, etc 626,378.05 



$1, 099, 390. 09 



Cash balance June 30, 1935 578,572.12 



Total 1, 961, 889. 69 



EXPENDITURES FOR RESEARCHES IN PURE SCIENCE, PUBLICATIONS, EXPLO- 

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



Expenditures from general funds of the Institution : 



Publications $16, 507. 36 



Researches and explorations 17,929.34 



$34. 436. 70 



Expenditures from funds devoted to specific purposes : 



Researches and explorations 42,920.24 



Care, increase, and study of special collections 12, 366. 86 



Publications 7, 323. 05 



62, 610. 15 



Total 97, 046. 85 



The practice of depositing on time in local trust companies and 

 banks such revenues as may be spared temporarily has been con- 

 tinued during the past year, and interest on these deposits has 

 amounted to $883.47. 



The Institution gratefully acknowledges gifts or bequests from 

 the following: 



Mr. W. N. Beach, for purchase of certain specimens of birds. 



Mrs. Laura Welsh Casey, for further contributions to Thomas Lincoln Casey 

 fund, for investigations in Coleoptera. 



Mr. Eldridge R. Johnson, further contributions for expenses in connection 

 with deep-sea and other oceanographic explorations. 



Research Corporation, further contributions for researches in radiation, 



Mr. John A. Roebling, further contributions for researches in radiation. 



Mrs. Mary Vaux Walcott, contribution for the publication of special volume 

 of North American Wild Flowers and purchase of certain Alaskan Archeological 

 specimens. 



From an anonymous friend, for further investigations in Old World 

 Archeology. 



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 are withdrawn in round amounts and deposited in the Treasury. 



