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CARNEGIE INSTITUTION 



lo. Siintfuary of estimates. 



First year 



Second year 



Third year 



Fourth and following years 



Salaries. 



$18,700—31,700 

 20,700—35,300 

 34,580 — 60,680 

 39,660 — 70,080 



Plant. 



100,000 



100,000 



96,000 



Mainte- 

 nance. 



8,500 

 12,500 

 19,000 

 25,000 



Totals 

 (assuming- 

 mean 

 salaries). 



I133.700 



140,500 



162,630 



79,870 



These estimates assume that land, power, heat, administrative 

 expenses and maintenance of buildings are provided for in the gen- 

 eral organization of the Institution. 



IT. Organizatio7i. — I take the liberty of recording here some notes 

 on such an organization as appears to me suitable for a geophysical 

 laboratory, established upon the Carnegie Foundation. Such a labo- 

 ratory would naturally be under the control of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, but I would suggest that its immediate governing board 

 consist of an independent visiting committee, comprising three 

 physicists and three geologists not connected with the Institution, 

 this board to be presided over by the director of the laboratory, 

 who shall vote only in case of a tie. 



The members of the visiting committee might] be appointed for 

 four-year terms, retiring in rotation. They might meet annually at 

 a stated season, to consider the report of the director, and also, in 

 urgent cases, upon call with due notice. Business requiring the 

 attention of the committee between annual meetings, if not very 

 urgent or complex, might be settled by correspondence. The 

 members of the committee might receive their expenses and a per 

 diem compensation for attendance at the meetings. 



The director might lay before the committee at its annual meet- 



ings 



(i) A report of the scientific work of the year. 



(2) A plan for scientific work for the ensuing year. 



(3) Plans for the expenditure of funds for the ensuing year ; such 

 plans being subject to the approval of the committee, excepting 

 that one-fifth of the sum appropriated for research should consti- 

 tute a contingent fund to be expended at the discretion of the di- 

 rector and duly accounted for by him. 



(4) Nominations for vacancies in the permanent staff. 



