xlii CARNEGIE INSTITUTION 



In addition, the Carnegie Institution will appoint from time to 

 time a number of persons to be known as Research Assistants, who 

 may or may not reside in Washington, and who shall undertake to 

 carry on such special investigations as may be entrusted to them by 

 the Institution. The appointments will be made for a year, and 

 may be renewed in any case where it seems desirable. Permission 

 may be given to go abroad, if special advantages not accessible in 

 this countr>^ can thus be secured. 



Publication is regarded b}^ the Founder as of special importance. 

 Accordingly, appropriations will be made for this purpose, espe- 

 cially for the printing of papers of acknowledged importance, so 

 abstruse, so extended, or so costly that without the aid of this fund 

 they may not see the light. 



With respect to certain large undertakings involving much ex- 

 pense, which have been or may be suggested, careful preliminary 

 inquiries have been and will be made. 



In order to secure the counsel of experts in various departments 

 of knowledge, special advisers have been and will be invited from 

 time to time for consultation. Valuable suggestions and counsel 

 have already been received from such advisers. 



Daniel C. Oilman, 

 Preside?it of the Carnegie Institution. 



Washington, November 25, igo2. 



