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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION     1233

our proper status after an actual reduction in force during the war, at a time when the procedure in other agencies is curtailment from wartime increases.

Additional funds for other obligations amount to $139,335, the largest increase in these items being for printing and binding amounting to $61,500. This is necessary due to the greatly increased cost of work done at the Government Printing Office, and the considerable bulk of scientific material on hand that should be issued as promptly as possible.

The hearings before the Appropriations Committee are still ahead, and it is hoped that we may be permitted to present these matters fully, and that we may have support in holding the funds that have been allotted in the budget. The amount is absolutely necessary to our proper administration. If these funds are appropriated, the Institution then will be in position to continue its work; without them it will be seriously crippled. In effect, the additional funds will place us in the situation that we should now have obtained except for the intervention of the war.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION CENTENNIAL, August 10, 1946:

The observance of the Centennial of the founding of the Smithsonian on August 10, 1846, proceeded under plans outlined before the Board last year, the committee for the Board of Regents being Dr. Vannevar Bush, Mr. Frederic A. Delano, and Mr. Frederic C. Walcott.

In brief, there was a ceremony at the Institution on August 10, 1946, at which the Third Assistant Postmaster General, Joseph J. Lawler, acting for the Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan, presented the first sheet of the Smithsonian Commemorative Stamp which was accepted by the Secretary of the Institution. The proceedings were broadcast by radio.

A.W.