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in each case maj' or should be done by the Institution or others to 

 make the inventory complete for purposes of imjxjrtant research. 



These methods have all along been obviously proper introductories 

 to the work, but this commiUce has not felt authorized to enter 

 upon their promotion until specifically authorized so to do b}' the 

 Trustees of tiie Institution as part of a general and well considered 

 scheme approved by them. The committee has confined itself thus 

 far to the consideration of m-atters referred to them by the Executive 

 Committee. 



Recommendations. — The specific recommendations of the committee 

 are, following the scheme of the Founder : 



1. That promotion of original research, rather than education as 

 commonly understood, be made the primary object of the Institution. 



2. That this object be promoted by — 



('j) The discovery of the exceptional man an.d assistance to him 

 to enable him to make the work for which he seems specially designed 

 his life v/ork. 



ib) By increasing the facilities for higher education by ascertain- 

 ing just where those facilities are most likely to prove fruitful of 

 good to the country and to the world, by discovering what facilities 

 already exist, and-, finally, the best way of supplementing well 

 established and safely organized equipments for advanced and pro- 

 fessional education and scientific work. 



(r) By utilizing and adding to existing facilities of the universi- 

 ties and other iiifjtitutions of learning throughout the country and 

 aiding their teachers in research. 



3. That special aid be extended to fellows and other individuals 

 for stated work : these fellows to be temporary, permanent, travel- 

 ing, etc., in order that all existing sources o knowledge may be 

 utilized to promote research. 



4. That a permanent Carnegie Institution organization be estab- 

 lished, consisting of — 



(a) Committees, general and advisory. 



(J)) A faculty of a rather limited number of individuals, who are 

 specialists in the various departments, with a stafT capable of con- 

 ducting the routine business of the Institution. 



5. That few, if any. Carnegie laboratories, workshops, or schools 

 be established as parts of same ; nor should those in existence be 

 taken over, thus saddling the Institution with management duties in 

 widely separated places and placing it in competition with existing 

 institutions. 



