REPORT OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PHYSICS 



CONTENTS. 



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I. Introduction 13 



II. Recommendations in Outline 15 



( 1 ) Laboratory 15 



(2) Temporar}' Associates 15 



(3) Permanent Associates 16 



(4) Grants 16 



(5) Council 16 



(6) Summary of Annuities 16 



III. Recommendations in Detail 17 



(A) Laboratory, Resident Officers and Council 17 



(7) Laboratory 17 



(8) Physicists in Charge 17 



(9) Director , iS 



(10) Executive Officer. . . 18 



(11) Council . 19 



(B) Resident and Non-resident Associates and Assistants 20 



(12) Permanent Non-resident Associates 20 



(13) Temporary Non-resident Associates 20 



(14) Resident Associates. . . 21 



(15) Research Assistants 21 



(C) Grants 22 



( D ) Tabulated Summary 22 



IV. Provisional Plan 23 



To the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Institution : 



Gentlemen : Your Committee appointed to suggest ways and 

 means for the increase and utiHzation of knowledge in the domain 

 of Physics beg to submit the following report : 



Introduction. 



By common consent the domain of Physics is divided into several 

 fields, which, though overlapping to some extent, are sufficiently 

 distinct to justify separate consideration. These fields are those 

 of Heat, Light, Electricity, Sound, and Mechanics, by which latter 

 all of the others are to a greater or less extent correlated. 



Great advances have been made in recent times, especially during 

 the last half century, in all of these subjects. One needs only to 

 recall the astonishing progress in the practical applications of physi- 



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