THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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Transit-circle, Southern Observatory, San Luis, Argentine Republic. 



search and discovery, encourage the 

 application of knowledge to the im- 

 provement of mankind; provide such 

 buildings, laboratories, bocks and ap- 

 paratus as may be needed, and afford 

 instruction of an advanced character 

 to students whenever and wherever 

 found, inside or outside of schools, 

 properly qua li lied to profit thereby. 

 Among its aims are these: 



1. To increase the efficiency of the 

 universities and other institutions of 

 learning throughout the country, by 

 utilizing and adding to their existing 

 facilities, and by aiding teachers in the 

 various' institutions for experimental 

 and other work, in these institutions as 

 far as may be advisable. 



2. To discover the exceptional man 

 in every department of study, whenever 

 and wherever lound, and enable him by 

 financial aid to make the work for 

 which he seems specially designed, nis 

 life work. 



3. To promote original research, pay- 

 ing great attention thereto, as being 

 one of the chief purposes of this insti- 

 tution. 



4. To increase facilities for higher 

 education. 



5. To enable such students as may 

 find Washington the best point for 

 their special studies to avail them- 

 selves of such advantages as may be 

 open to them in the museums, libraries, 

 laboratories, observatory, meteorolog- 

 ical, piscicultural and forestry schools 

 and kindred institutions of the several 

 departments of the government. 



6. To insure the prompt publication 

 and distribution of the results of sci- 

 entific investigation, a field considered 

 to be highly important. 



These and kindred objects may be 

 attained by providing the necessary 

 apparatus, by employing able teachers 

 from various institutions in Washing- 

 ton and elsewhere, and by enabling men 

 fitted for special work to devote them- 

 selves to it, through salaried fellow- 

 ships or scholarships, or through sal- 

 aries, with or without pensions in old 

 age, or through aid in other forms to 

 such men as continue their special 

 work at seats of learning throughout 

 the world. 



