2 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION 



The committee recommend that an appropriation of $15,000 a year 

 be made provisionally for a period of five years, believing that dur- 

 ing tliat time valuable results can be produced ; they further recom- 

 mend that the committee be authorized to carry forward such parts 

 of the work as may be most advantageously undertaken, and to em- 

 ploy such assistance as may be necessary. 



Respectfully submitted by 



Carroll D, Wright, Chairman, 

 Henry W. Farnam, 

 John B, Clark, 



Committee. 



New York, April p, ipo2. 



