22 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



Following up the approval by the Board of Trustees at their meeting of 

 December, 1908, of the recommendations of the Executiv Committee with 

 respect to a specially designd ship for ocean magnetic 

 '^^ti'^r'"'"^^"^*^'^ work, a contract for her construction was let on Decem- 

 ber 9, 1908, to the Tebo Yacht Basin Co., of Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., for the sum of $100,935. She was launcht June 12, 1909, and started 

 on her trial voyage August 21, 1909. She proceeded first by Long Island 

 Sound to Gardiner's Bay, Long Island, where she was swung repeatedly to 

 test her magnetic properties. Thence she saild to St. Johns, Newfoundland ; 

 thence to Falmouth, England ; and she is now engaged in a magnetic survey 

 of the Atlantic. Further reference will be made to this novel ship in a subse- 

 quent section of this report. 



In conformity with the vote of the Trustees at their last meeting, steps 



were taken early in the year to carry out the project of publishing an edition 



of the early masterpieces in international law, suggested 



Classics of Interna- ^Q ^i^^ Institution by Professor James Brown Scott in 



tlOnal Law. ^ ^rv, , r t-, r o -1 



1906. The proposal of Professor Scott to act, without 

 pecuniary compensation, as general editor of the series was accepted by the 

 Executiv Committee at its meeting of March 9, 1909, and the project is now 

 well under way. In accordance with the plan submitted a year ago, each 

 work is to be reproduced by fotografic process from the best available edition 

 (usually in Latin), each is to be accompanied by a complete translation into 

 English, with an introductory commentary prepard by an expert specially 

 qualified to interpret the work. The merits of this enterprise have enlisted 

 the cooperation of eminent authorities in international law. Thus, of the 

 works already begun. Professor Westlake, of the University of Cambridge, 

 will furnish a commentary for the work of Ayala ; Professor Holland, of the 

 University of Oxford, will furnish commentaries for the works of Zouche 

 and Gentilis; while Professor Scott will perform a similar office for the 

 works of Grotius. It is expected that copies of the fotografic reproduction 

 of the "Juris et judicii fecialis, sive juris inter gentes" of Zouche and the 

 "De jure belli ac pacis" of Grotius will be ready for inspection at the time of 

 the coming meeting of the Trustees. 



From the foundation of the Institution it was recosfnizd that the issue of 



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publications would become one of its most important functions. Naturally 

 Establishment of enough the details of the earlier work in this line were 

 Division of Publica- divided between the officers of administration and the an- 

 ions, thors of the publications issued under the auspices of the 

 Institution. As the work developt the need of expert editorial supervision 

 led to the employment for this purpose of Mr. William Barnum, who has 



