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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Regents: Of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operators, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year 1876 To cheet these objects, and at the same time to develop the plan of active operations, it became necessary to increase the income of the fund, and this has been accomplished by the adoption ofa system of rigid economy and by a judicious investment of the savings of the income. The original amount of the fund of has been increased to Instead of forming the library by the purchase of books, it has been created principally through exchanges, while the 'expense of maintaining it has been obviated by depositing the books in the Library of Congress. The care of the grounds, which was a very expensive item, has been assumed by the Government, and the cost of maintaining the museum is now defrayed by an annual congressional appropriation. The Institution having thus happily been relieved from the support of these burdens, is now, at the end of the third decade of its history, in a con dition to fully realize the conception of its character as originally set forth in the first annual report of the Secretary, while the success of the plan of active operations has fully vindicated the propriety of its adop tion. Through its operation the Institution has advanced almost every branch of science, and has made the name of Smithson known wherever civilization exists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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