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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 771
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to the Regents.

On motion, the minutes were approved.

[[underlined]] Resolution Relative to the Income and Expenditure. [[/underlined]]

Mr. Delano offered the following resolution, which was adopted:

RESOLVED: That the income of the Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, be appropriated for the service of the Institution, to be expended by the Secretary, with the advice of the Executive Committee, with discretion on the part of the Secretary as to items.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.

In presenting his printed report, the Secretary said that during the fiscal year 1928, the Institution and the bureaus under its direction issued a total of 117 volumes and pamphlets, of which there were distributed 183,196 copies. Of these publications, 47 were published by the Institution proper, 69 by the National Museum, and 2 by the Bureau of American Ethnology.
The Smithsonian Annual Reports, which contain an appendix of some 30 articles reviewing in popular language the advances in all fields or science, continue in wide demand, an official of the Library of Congress writing, "The Smithsonian Report is one of the most constantly called-for publications we have here at the Library of Congress." The annual publication describing and illustrating the Smithsonian's explorations and fieldwork for the year is increasing in popularity as shown by the larger number of requests received each year. The exploration pamphlet for the past year reported on 30 Smithsonian expeditions to all parts of the world in the interests of science.

The usual large number of technical monographs and smaller papers in geology, biology, anthropology, and astrophysics were issued; these are prepared both by members of our own staff and by outside scientists working on the Smithsonian collections. Among the larger publications of the 
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