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appliances which he may need to employ in his researches. The 

 question of the proper location of such an institution need not be 

 discussed until the Board of Trustees has decided whether the estab- 

 lishment and equipment of laboratories is to be regarded as a part 

 of the recognized work of the Carnegie Institution. 



Another way in which it is desirable for the Carnegie Institution 

 to aid in the advancement of physiological science is by assisting 

 individuals of proved ability in their researches. This may be 

 done — 



(i) By supplying them with apparatus and material for study 

 "which they could not otherwise obtain. 



(2) By affording them assistance, either clerical, laboratory, or 

 editorial, thus relieving them of the drudgery of routine work and 

 enabling them to expend their energies in directions in which they 

 will be most effective. 



(3) By making it possible for them to secure leave of absence 

 from their work as teachers in order to devote themselves for a year 

 or more to some special research, either in a laboratory alreadj^ 

 established or in the laboratory for the study of nutrition, the cre- 

 ation of which has been above suggested. 



Your committee is of opinion that the demands made by modern 

 methods of education in physiology and by the increase in the size 

 of classes has caused some competent observers to give up all attempt 

 at original work. For like reasons, men who enter laboratories as 

 demonstrators and assistants are soon overwhelmed by the necessity 

 of giving up all their working hours to instruction. Whatever is 

 done to aid physiological research must insure to the worker full 

 relief from the labor of educating students. 



In the case of tried men, now too actively employed as professors, 

 it will be advisable, when thej' desire to conduct researches of suffi- 

 cient importance, either to secure easing of their work by assistance 

 or to enable them for long enough periods to be free from all need 

 to teach. 



Respectfully submitted. 



S. Weir Mitchell, Chairman, 



H. P. BOWDITCH, 



W. H. Howell, 



Committee. 



October i6, 1902. 



