I90 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION 



The aims of the Institution, as declared by its Founder in the deed 

 creating the same, are : 



1. To promote original research, paying great attention thereto 

 as one of the most important of all departments. 



2. To discover the exceptional man in every department of study 

 whenever and wherever found, inside or outside of schools, and 

 enable him to make the work for which he seems specially designed 

 his life work. 



3. To increase facilities for higher education. 



4. To increase the efficiency of the universities and other institu- 

 tions of learning throughout the country, by utilizing and adding to 

 their existing facilities and aiding teachers in the various institutions 

 for experimental and other work, in these institutions as far as ad- 

 visable. 



5. To enable such students as may find Washington the best point 

 for their special studies, to enjoy the advantages of the Museums, 

 Libraries, Laboratories, Observatories, Meteorological, Piscicultural, 

 and Forestry Schools, and kindred institutions of the several depart- 

 ments of the Government. 



6. To insure the prompt publication and distribution of the results 

 of scientific investigation, a field considered highly important. 



These would seem to divide themselves into three groups. The 

 first is the organization of the Institution itself. The second is 

 analogous to the systems of fellowships established in a universit5\ 

 The third is publication. 



The aims designated by the Founder as Nos. i, 3, and 4 will come 

 under the immediate direction of the Institution. The aims desig- 

 nated as Nos. 2 and 5 will come under a general supervision of the 

 nature of fellowships. No. 6 will constitute the department of 

 publication. 



Institution. — The Institution should be conducted by a group of 

 men, specialists in their own departments, capable of directing in- 

 vestigation and of recognizing the value of work done elsewhere. 

 There should be among them that proper esprit de corps which belongs 

 to any loyal faculty. Their primary duties are indicated by No. i. 

 The methods b}' which they will promote No. 3, "to increase facilities 

 for higher education, ' ' must be developed as the Institution progresses. 

 It would seem that at first little should be done in this way beyond 

 putting the results of the researches which they encourage in such 

 shape that they will be available for all who are seeking higher 

 education. The trust deed apparently contemplates financial assist- 



