﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  EXECUTIVE 
  COMMITTEE 
  OF 
  THE 
  

   BOARD 
  OF 
  REGENTS 
  OF 
  THE 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTI- 
  

   TUTION 
  FOR 
  THE 
  YEAR 
  ENDED 
  JUNE 
  30, 
  1927 
  

  

  To 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonimi 
  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 
  following 
  Government 
  bureaus 
  in 
  the 
  administrative 
  charge 
  of 
  

   the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  : 
  The 
  National 
  Museum, 
  the 
  Interna- 
  

   tional 
  Exchanges, 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  American 
  Ethnology, 
  the 
  National 
  

   Zoological 
  Park, 
  the 
  Astrophysical 
  Observatory, 
  the 
  International 
  

   Catalogue 
  of 
  Scientific 
  Literature, 
  and 
  the 
  National 
  Gallery 
  of 
  Art; 
  

   also 
  for 
  an 
  additional 
  assistant 
  secretary 
  and 
  for 
  printing 
  and 
  

   binding 
  for 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  ended 
  June 
  30, 
  1927. 
  

  

  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION 
  

  

  Condition 
  of 
  the 
  endowment 
  fund 
  July 
  1^ 
  1927 
  

  

  The 
  sum 
  of 
  $1,000,000 
  deposited 
  in 
  the 
  Treasury 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  

   States 
  under 
  act 
  of 
  Congress 
  is 
  part 
  of 
  a 
  permanent 
  endowment 
  

   fund, 
  which 
  includes 
  the 
  original 
  Smithson 
  fund 
  and 
  additions 
  

   accumulated 
  by 
  the 
  deposit 
  of 
  savings 
  and 
  bequests 
  from 
  time 
  to 
  

   time. 
  Subsequent 
  bequests 
  and 
  gifts 
  and 
  the 
  income 
  therefrom, 
  

   when 
  so 
  required, 
  are 
  invested 
  in 
  approved 
  securities. 
  The 
  several 
  

   specific 
  funds 
  so 
  invested 
  are 
  now 
  constituted 
  and 
  classed 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Consolidated 
  fund 
  

  

  Avery 
  fund 
  $40, 
  456. 
  46 
  

  

  Viiginiii 
  Purely 
  Bacon 
  fund 
  62,272.93 
  

  

  Lucy 
  H. 
  Baird 
  fund 
  1,728.09 
  

  

  Chamberlain 
  fund 
  35, 
  000. 
  00 
  

  

  Hamilton 
  fund 
  500. 
  00 
  

  

  Caroline 
  Henry 
  fund 
  1, 
  223. 
  33 
  

  

  Hodgkins 
  general 
  fund 
  37, 
  275. 
  00 
  

  

  Bruce 
  Hughes 
  fund 
  14,158.90 
  

  

  Lucy 
  T. 
  and 
  George 
  W. 
  Poore 
  fund 
  21,296.42 
  

  

  Addison 
  T. 
  Reid 
  fund 
  7,299.16 
  

  

  llhees 
  fund 
  357. 
  34 
  

  

  Iloebling 
  fund 
  150, 
  000. 
  00 
  

  

  George 
  H. 
  Sanford 
  fund 
  675. 
  72 
  

  

  Smitlison 
  fund 
  1, 
  5I6. 
  40 
  

  

  Total 
  consolidated 
  fund 
  373, 
  759. 
  75 
  

  

  Charles 
  D. 
  and 
  Mary 
  Vaux 
  Walcott 
  research 
  fund 
  11,520.00 
  

  

  74906—28 
  10 
  133 
  

  

  