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{b) Erecting thereon a central administration building, to serve 

 as the administrative headquarters of research work con- 

 ducted, directed, or aided by the Carnegie Institution. 



(c) Establishing such laboratories from time to time as may be 

 deemed advisable. 



{d) Employing the best qualified men that can be secured for 

 carrying on such research work as it may be decided to 

 undertake in Washington. 



(<?) Continuing and developing the present office organization 

 as the Executive Committee may find it necessary to do 

 in order to properly conduct the work of the Institution. 



The onl}^ orgaiiization outside of lVashmgto7i to be provided for at 

 present should be such advisers and advisory committees as may 

 from time to time be found necessary in connection with the devel- 

 opment of the research work of the Institution. It is the opinion 

 of the Committee that such persons and committees should be largely 

 advisory and not executive in their function. Executive work 

 should be in charge of paid employes of the Institution. These 

 may be officers, research associates, and special employes. 



Policy. — Soon after the Executive Committee began its investiga- 

 tions it became evident that two lines of policy were open, namely : 



(a) To sustain broad researches and extended explorations that 

 will greatly add to knowledge. 



(3) To make small grants. 



Research may be defined as original investigation in any field, 

 whether in science, literature, or art. Its limits coincide with the 

 limits of the knowable. In the field of research the function of the 

 Institution should be organization, the substitution of organized for 

 unorganized effort wherever such combination of effort promises the 

 best results ; and the prevention, as far as possible, of needless 

 duplication of work. Hitherto, with few exceptions, research has 

 been a matter of individual enterprise, each worker taking up the 

 special problem which chance or taste led him to and treating it in 

 his own way. No investigator, working single handed, can at pres- 

 ent approach the largest problems in the broadest way thoroughly 

 and sj'stematically. 



With an income large enough to enter upon some large projects 

 and a number of minor ones, it appears to be wiser, at the begin- 

 ning, to make a number of small grants and to thoroughly prepare 

 to take up some of the larger projects. With this in view the Exec- 



