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advancement of human welfare. The functions of a biological farm 

 are not all summed up in experimentation. That old and true 

 method of natural history observation must ever have a large share 

 in the study of living things. 



The biology of today is not too much laboratory, but too little 

 of living things. 



Outlay and maintenance. — The original outlay for land, stock, 

 buildings, equipment, inclosures of land and water for isolation 

 purposes, would vary according to the forms selected for study. 

 From ?5o,ooo to $100,000 would suffice for this. The maintenance 

 of the first section, including salaries, accessions to stock, library, 

 etc., m<ay be estimated at $10,000 a year. The cost of additional 

 sections would be about $5,000 each. 



PROPOSED ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 



Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, Pa., 



April 21, 1902. 



To the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Institution. 



Gentlemen : Inasmuch as the same generous donor who has called 

 into being the institution which you represent is the founder for 

 like ends of the institution which we have the honor of representing, 

 we are gratified by the receipt of your letter asking for suggestions 

 as to any special line of scientific research to which in our judgment 

 a portion of the funds of the Carnegie Institution might be advan- 

 tageously devoted. 



In reply to your communication we beg to submit the following as 

 worthy of your earnest consideration : 



The Carnegie Museum of Pittsburg, Pa., is desirous of despatch- 

 ing an expedition, under the leadership of Mr. J. B. Hatcher, to the 

 Antarctic regions, and more particularly to Graham Land and the 

 adjoining seas and islands. 



The chief purposes of this expedition will be, iirst, to study the 

 geology, paleontology, and biology of the lands and waters of 

 this region, with special reference to their bearing upon the sup- 

 posed former land connection between South America and Antarc- 

 tica, and to discover, if possible, the nature, duration, and time of 

 such connection; second, to rnake as complete collections as pos- 

 sible of the marine and terrestrial vertebrate and invertebrate faunas 



