REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 7 



Estimates for the year ending June SO, 1911. 



International Exchanges $32, 000 



American Ethnology 52, 000 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 7, 500 



Astrophysical Observatory IS, 000 



National Museum : 



Furniture and fixtures $125,000 



Heating and lighting 60,000 



Preservation of collections 400.000 



Books 5,000 



Building repairs 15. 000 



Postage 500 



• 605, 500 



National Zoological Park : 



Maintenance, etc $110, 000 



Aviary building SO, 000 



Roadways and walks 14,000 



Readjustment of boundaries 40, 000 



244, 000 



Printing and binding for the Institution and its branches 72, 700 



Total 1, 031, 700 



EXPLORATIONS AND RESEARCHES. 



The resources of the Smithsonian Institution are at present too 

 limited to permit of large grants for extensive explorations or inves- 

 tigations, but as far as the income allows aid is given in various lines 

 of research work, and it is sometimes found possible to engage in ex- 

 peditions likely to accomplish important results. If funds could be 

 obtained to be administered under the Institution, the scientific work 

 of the Government might often be supplemented by original re- 

 searches of a character that would hardly be undertaken by the Gov- 

 ernment, and which would be of great service to humanity and to 

 science. 



Through the National Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 and the Astrophysical Observatory the Institution has been enabled 

 to carry on various important biological, ethnological, and astrophys- 

 ical researches, which are mentioned elsewhere in this report. 



SMITHSONIAN AFRICAN EXPEDITION. 



Through the generosity of friends of the Smithsonian Institution,, 

 there was provided during the past year a special fund to pay for the 

 outfitting and to meet the expenses of the naturalists on a hunting 

 and collecting expedition to Africa under the direction of Col. Theo- 

 dore Roosevelt. No part of the fund was derived from any govern- 

 ment appropriation or from the income of the Institution. The spe- 

 cial interest of the Institution in the expedition is the collection of 

 biological material for the United States National Museum. 



