XXXIV CARNEGIE INSTITUTION 



W. K. Brooks, Professor of Zoolog}^, Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, Baltimore, Md. 



C. Hart Merriam, Chief U. S. Biological Survey, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



E. B. Wilson, Professor of Zoology, Columbia University, 

 New York, N. Y. 



These Advisers were requested to give the committee their views 

 on various important suggestions received by the Institution, as well 

 as independent recommendations originating in the committees. 

 The following is a copy of the letter appointing the Advisers and 

 inviting suggestions and recommendations : 



March ii, 1902. 

 Dear Sir : 



The Executive Committee of the Carnegie Institution have been 

 requested by the Trustees to prepare, in the course of the summer, 

 a plan of procedure, and in the meantime to engage in preliminary 

 studies of the problems committed to them, by consultation with ac- 

 knowledged authorities at home and abroad. 



The plan of the Institution includes the appointment from time to 

 time of counsellors, or advisers, to whom the Committee may refer 

 important suggestions, and from whom they may receive independ- 

 ent recommendations. You are invited to act as one of these ad- 

 visers until the annual meeting of the Trustees, in November next. 

 It is the purpose of the Institution to provide liberally for any ex- 

 pense that may be incurred in clerical service and in travel b)^ those 

 whom they may consult. If it is agreeable to you to accept this 

 invitation, a more personal communication will be addressed to you 

 at an early day. An immediate answer is requested. 



Respectfully, 



D. C. Oilman, 



President. 



The reports received from the Advisory Committees, as far as they 

 relate to scope and plan, are printed in Appendix A. 



Circular Letter. 



A circular letter was also prepared and sent to nearly a thousand 

 scientific men and investigators of prominence, mainly in the United 

 States. This was accompanied by a pamphlet that included the 

 articles of incorporation, the founder's address, and a list of the 

 officers. The circular letter is as follows : 



