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This amount is to be collected gradually out of the annuity of 

 $150,000 specified above. With the laboratory, etc., constructed, 

 the annuity is to be expended as follows: 



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Salaries of : Director |8,000 



Physicists in charge, 5 @ |6000 30,000 



Executive ofl&cer 4,000 



Aids, foreman, electrician, laborers, etc 5,00C 



Resident research associates, 10 @ J?;3,000 30,000 



Resident research assistants, 20 @ |1, 500 30,000 



Instrument makers, etc 2,000 



Janitors and carpenters 2,000 



Clerks and computers 3,000 



Total annual running expenses and additions to equipment 30,000 



Unforeseen expenses 6,000 



Total $150,000 



To this is to be added the expense incurred outside of the labora- 

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Annuities for : Permanent non-resident associateships, with 

 assistants and laboratory expenses, 4 at 



110,000 each |40,000 



Temporary non-resident associateships, 20 at 



|2,000 each 40,000 



Councillors, 5 at|2,000 10,000 



Grants to aid research 10,000 



Total $100,000 



IV. Provisional Plan. 



To inaugurate the project which your Committee has just ex- 

 plained, it will be necessary to appoint a Council possessing the 

 qualifications and entrusted with the duties above set forth. The 

 fees of each member are to be $2,000 per annum. 



With regard to the laboratory, your Committee think it prudent 

 to begin with not more than one department. This it seems to them 

 should be the department of light and radiation, since it is in the 

 domain of optics that American research has been peculiarly fruitful 

 and advanced, and a larger number of sufficiently able investigators 

 is most likely to be available. The annual appropriation of $150,000 

 specified above, should be used to appoint the physicist in charge, 

 the executive officer and his aids, and two research associates in 

 residence; the remainder, which will considerably exceed $100,000, 

 should be devoted to building purposes. The cost of the laboratory 



