Relation of the Federal Government to Research 



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Summary of Previous 

 Estimates of Federal 

 Expenditures for Research 



a. Authors and References 



(1) Rosa, Edward B. Expenditures aiid Kevenues of the 

 Federal Government, in AnnaJs of the American Academy of 

 Political and Ho<'inl Science, May 1921, pp. 26-33, 34, 37, 57-58, 

 75, and passim. 



(2) White, Charles P. Trend in Federal Expenditures, iu 

 Avnais of the American Academy of Political and Social Sci- 

 ence, May 1924, pp. 3n, 4. 



(3) Science Service (Marjorie Van de Water and Watson 

 Davis) in Science News Letter, vol. XXV, No. 667, January 20, 

 1934, p. 35. 



(4) U. S. Bureau of the Budget. Science and Research, 

 General, Budget of the United States Oovemmeiit ; 1926, facing 

 p. A57 ; 1927. p. A.54 ; 1928, p. A71 ; 1929, p. A80 ; 1930, p. A85 ; 

 1931, p. A99; 1932, p. A130; 1933, p. A162 ; 1934, p. A176 ; 1935, 

 p. A87. 



fo) Ward, Ralph B. Expendittires and budgeted estimates, 

 1930, loss, and WSo, for the support of the work of scientific 

 bureaus and independent offices of the United States Oovern- 

 ment (niimeogiaphed, 69 pp.). 



b. Data by Years 



Table D. — Previous estimates of Federal expenditures for 

 research, by scope of definition used 



[In millions of dollars] 



Taiile D. — Previous estimates of Federal expenditures for 



research, by scope of definition used — Continued 



[In millions of dollars] 



See footnotes at end ot table. 



Note. — Expenditures from emergency funds .ire excluded. Di.screpan- 

 cies l}etween amounts fur the same year estimated by different investi- 

 gators are due largely to diffeiences in definition. 



' Exclusive of researcli listed elsewhere in the Bureau of the Budget's classification 

 of expenditures by functions. 



' Estimates of expenditures or appropriations for the current or immediately 

 .succeeding fiscal year. 



' Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Interior, Navy, and Treasury only. 

 Omitted departments and independent oflices were stated by Ward to have ex- 

 pended about $7'.. uiillKin in 1933. 



' Heretofore Nn[)uiilislied. 



» After preliminary cuts. (Science Service mimeographed statement of Aug. 1«. 

 1933.) First Budget estimate had been $34.8 million. An additional $4.4 mUlion 

 for scientific research was estimated to be available from eniergency funds. (See 

 Science News Letter, Jan. 20, 1934, vol. 25, p. 35.) 



' Congressional Record, June 10, 1933. pp. 5793-5794, quoting from Science Service 

 miraeogrnplied statement of Mar. 13, 1933. 



' Without subdividing appropriation paragraphs. 



' For detail, see table E. 



' For citation to source, see "Authors and references" above. 



'0 Does not include small amounts from Navy and State Departments to be con- 

 sistent with Rosa estimates. 



Table E. — Appropriations for scientific bureaus maintained by 



the Qovernment, for the fiscal year 1902 



[In thousands of dollars] 



Appropriations, liOi ' 

 Total $11, 255 



Treasury Department : 



Coa.st and Geodetic Survey 805 



National Bureau of Standards 142 



Bureau of Statistics 61 



Navy Department : 



Naval Observatory 65 



Nautical Almanac 23 



Department of the Interior : 



Census Office 3,523 



Geological Survey 961 



Department of Agriculture : 



Secretary's Office 116 



Weather Bureau 1,148 



Bureau of Animal Industry 1, 154 



Bureau of Plant Industry 497 



Vegetable Pathology 60 



Bureau of Forestry 185 



Bureau of Chemistry 36 



Division of Soils 109 



Biological Survey 33 



Divi.sion of Entomology 36 



Office of Road Inquiries 20 



Office of Experiment Stations 789 



Irrigation Investigations 50 



Division of Statistics 141 



Miscellaneous •. 203 



Detached : 



Fi.sh Commission 487 



Department of Labor 178 



Smithsonian '433 



' Exclusive of appropriations for printing and binding. 

 •Including .$80,000 for National Zoological Park. 



Source: W. J. McGee in Hearing before the Committee on Interstate 

 and Foreign Coiniiierce of tite House of Representatives on (bills) to 

 Establish a Department of Commerce and Labor, Industries, and Manu- 

 facture. March 31, 1902, p. 129. 



