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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. 



Estimates. — The estimates forwarded to Congress in behalf of the 

 government branches of the Institution and the appropriations based 

 thereon for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, are as follows : 



International Exchanges 



American Ethnology 



Reimbursement of Bell & Co. 



Astrophysical Observatory 



National Museum: 



Furniture and fixtures 



Heating and lighting 



Preservation of collections 



Books 



Estimates. 



Postage 



Rent of workshops , 



Building repairs 



Moving collections 



National Gallery of Art 



National Zoological Park 



Readjustment of boundaries 



Aviary building 



Roadways and walks 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 



Total 



132, 000 



52,000 



525 



17,000 



200, 000 



62,000 



•100, 000 



5,000 



500 



a 4, 580 



15, 000 



10, 000 



60,000 



110,000 



40,000 



80,000 



12,000 



7, 500 



1,108,105 



Appropri- 

 ations. 



132,000 

 43, 000 



200, 000 



60,000 



250, 000 



2, 000 



500 



15,000 

 4,000 



a The request was made to the Appropriations Committee that this item be eliminated, as 

 rented buildings would be vacated by June 30, 1909. 



The Institution is required each year to submit to Congress, 

 through the Secretary of the Treasury, estimates for the support of 

 the several branches placed by the Congress under its administrative 

 charge. The estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, were 

 submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury on May 1, 1909, instead 

 of in the fall of the year as heretofore, it being the desire of the 

 President, expressed through the Treasury Department, that more 

 time be given to their examination. 



In preparing these estimates I found it imperative that consider- 

 able increases should be made in several directions, as follows : 



For the Bureau of American Ethnology I have asked an increase 

 of $10,000, to be allotted for the exploration and preservation of 

 antiquities, researches among the tribes of the Middle West, and for 

 researches in Hawaii and Samoa. 



To properly carry on the work of the Astrophysical Observatory 

 likewise requires a greater appropriation. The furnishing and main- 

 tenance of the new building for the National Museum necessitates, in 

 general, a large increase in annual appropriations. For the National 

 Zoological Park I have asked a considerable increase, in order that 

 it may be properly maintained and become in greater measure what its 

 name would lead the public to expect and demand in a national park. 



