6 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1922. 



from revenues of Freer bequest, $117,157.26; and $6,364.15 in cash 

 and deposited subject to check. 



The Institution was charged by Congress with tlie disbursement 

 of the following appropriations for the year ending June 30, 1922 : 



International Exchanges $50,000.00 



American Ethnolo2;y 46,000.00 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 7. 500. 00 



Astrophysical Observatoi-y 15.500.00 



National Museum : 



Furniture and fixtures .$20,000.00 



Heating and lighting 70, 000. 00 



Heating and lighting (deficiency) 4,000.00 



Preservation of collections 312. 620. 00 



Preservation of collections (deficiency) 15.84 



Building repairs 10,000.00 



Books 2.000.00 



Books (deficiency) 3.02 



Postage .500.00 



419, 138. 86 



National Gallery of Art 15,000.00 



National Zoological Park 125,000.00 



Additional land for Zoological Park 2, 500. 00 



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Total 680, 638. 80 



There was also appropriated for printing and binding $91,000, to 

 cover the cost of printing and binding the Smithsonian annual re- 

 port and reports and miscellaneous printing for Governuient branches 

 of the Institution. 



RESEARCHES AND EXPLORATIONS. 



Each year the Institution sends out, as far as its limited funds 

 permit, expeditions for the purpose of exploring scientifically little- 

 known regions of the earth, or to conduct needed field work in more 

 familiar localities, thus furthering one of its principal objects, 

 the " increase of knowledge." It is also able to cooperate advan- 

 tageously with other institutions by contributing members of its 

 scientific staff to expeditions already organized and financed. The 

 results of the more noteworthy of these expeditions are here de- 

 scribed briefl3\ and the field work of the various branches of the 

 Institution will be found in the appendixes to this report. 



GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. 



During the summer and early fall of 1921 your secretary carried 

 on geological field work in the Canadian Eocky Mountains in con- 

 tinuation of previous years' work in this region. His objects were 

 to secure data on the pre-Devonian strata of the Sawback Eange 



