ADVISORY COMMITTED ON PHYSICS 1 7 



Annuity for a ph)'sical laboratory, elc, flSO.OOO 



for permanent research associates with small laboratories,... 40,000 



for temporary research associates, 40,000 



for grantsof apparatus, etc., 10,000 



for the Council, 10,000 



Total, $250,000 



III. Recommendations in Detaii., 



The Committee further beg leave to submit the. followiug more 

 detailed outline of the laboratory, its government, pei'sonnel, func- 

 tions, equipment and maintenance, together with a final table in 

 which the appropriation recommended is dilterently itemized. 



(A) Laboratory, Resident Officers and Council. 



(7) Laboratory. The Council proposes that a laboratory, 

 devoted to the higher order of physical research, be built 

 in some specially favorable localitv. The work to be prosecuted in 

 this laboratory is to be purely investigational in the broadest sense, 

 to the exclusion of mere routine work of any kind. 



The cost of the laboratory is estimated at $400,000; of the grounds, 

 whose location shall be sufficiently isolated to meet the requirements 

 of modern research, at $50,000; of the Power house, shop, etc., at 

 $50,000; making a total of $500,000; the equipment is estimated at 

 $100,000, and the running expenses at $30,(XX) per annum, or an 

 average of 5,000 dollars for each of the departments hereinafter 

 specified, 



(8) Pkysicists in charge. The ' ' phj^sicists in charge ' ' of the 

 work are to be, without exception, persons of internationally 

 acknowledged eminence in physics, and v/hose records are accessible 

 in the annals of science. No other voucher shall be considered. If 

 the person needed is not to be found in the United States, he may 

 be appointed from abroad, but no position need be filled contin- 

 uously. 



The salaries of the physicists in charge .shall be a m.inimum of 

 $6,000 per annum. If called from other institutions, they shall be 

 appointed at a salary not less than that received immediately prior 

 to their appointment. 



They are to be appointeti by the Trustees, upon recomm.endation 

 of the Council on physics. The recommendation is to be made with 



