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3. A Library Endowment. 



A great library of the natural and physical sciences should 

 be built up here in San Francisco. A large endowment is 

 necessary; but for the present, if an endowment of not less 

 than $200,000 can be secured the immediate needs would be 

 fairly well met. The income from this fund, amounting to 

 $8,000 to $10,000 would be used in the purchase of books, 

 pamphlets and periodicals, for binding, and other expenses 

 incident to building up and maintaining the library. 



4. Publication Fund. 



The publication fund of the Academy has never been ade- 

 quate. It is very inadequate now. Papers of the highest 

 scientific value have to be refused every year because of lack of 

 funds for their publication. Because of the lack of funds the 

 Academy has never been able to use the durable paper for the 

 text and for the illustrations which th^ high value of its publi- 

 cations demands. Papers of the greatest value have been 

 printed on paper that will probably not last fifty years. An 

 endowment of $100,000 would be of very great help in en- 

 abling the Academy to print its publications in proper form 

 and to maintain its Proceedings at a high standard of excel- 

 lence. 



In addition to these large and urgently important needs of 

 the Academy, there are many smaller special needs. Each of 

 the departments in the Academy has, and will always have, 

 need for funds for special investigations. There are, for ex- 

 ample, special problems which the department of geology is 

 interested in and which it would like to undertake to solve. 

 And the same is equally true of the other departments, par- 

 ticularly of botany, herpetology, invertebrate paleontology, in- 

 vertebrate zoology, ornithology, entomology, and mammalogy. 

 There should be small endowments for each of these depart- 

 ments in order that each may be assured of a reasonable sum 

 for field work every year. 



President Grunsky has called attention to the Academy's 

 immediate need of not less than a million dollars for completing 

 the museum building in all its units as originally designed and 

 as urgently needed. The west wing now nearing completion 

 will be inadequate to house the collections that the Academy 



