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tilic transactions of the Carnegie Institution. Twenty grants of 2000 

 dollars each, to be designated temporary no7i-resident research associ- 

 ateshjps, or a total of 40,000 dollars per annum, is deemed sufficient 

 for this purpose. 



(3) Permayient Associates. To establish a few small laboratories in 

 different parts of the country, placed in charge of persons specially 

 eminent for their exceptional experimental skill in the direction of dis- 

 covery in pure physics and who will not profit by the recommendations 

 under ( 1 ) and (2 ) . The ad\' ance of physics depends so much on the 

 intellectual effort of individuals, man}' of whom can not do their best 

 work under corporate surroundings, that this recognition of the habits 

 of work of persons whose scientific record is beyond question, has 

 seemed to the Committee a provision of importance. Frequently, 

 moreover, the character of the work will demand that it be done in 

 special localities. The physicists here in question are not to lo.se 

 financiall)' by being transferred to the Carnegie Institution; conse- 

 sequently the following estimates of the grants, to be knowm as 

 permanent non-residejit research associateships are given as an 

 average case; viz., for laboratory and grounds, 10,000 dollars; for 

 salary, 6,000 dollars; for running expenses, equipment and assistants, 

 4,000 dollars. The Committee recommend that two such private 

 laboratories be open for establishment at once, to be increased to 

 four in the course of time, as the funds become available. The 

 total annual expenditure is not to exceed 40,000 dollars. 



(4) Grants. To establish a fund for grants given to persons of recog- 

 nized ability, or to societies, for apparatus, laboratory equipment, 

 clerking, shopwork, publication, etc. The Committee have learned 

 that this need has already been partially met by other endowments, and 

 that a wiser provision for the material status of the individual investi- 

 gator is the more important demand at the present time. They there- 

 fore deem an annuity of 10,000 dollars sufficient, under existing 

 circumstances, for grants of the kind specified. 



(5) Council. To retain a Council of not less than three nor more than 

 five physicists of the highest eminence, whose duty it shall be to in- 

 augurate the research facilities specified and to watch over their 

 progress. A fee of 2,000 dollars per annum to each member is 

 deemed sufficient for the services asked. 



(6) Summary of Annuities. The total annual appropriation rec- 

 ommended by 5^our Committee for research in pure physics stands, 

 therefore, as follows : 



