l8 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



been a source of unfailing encouragement to those of his colleagues who 

 have had access to his more intimate friendship since his retirement from 

 the presidency. 



WORK OF ADMINISTRATION. 



In order to indicate the growth and the extent of the work thus far under- 

 taken and accomplished by the Institution, the salient facts and figures are 

 here condensed into a single paragraph. Since its organi- 

 Summary of Work zation, in 1902, about I, GOO individuals have been engaged 



Date ^*"**°" *° "^ investigations under the auspices of the Institution and 

 there are at present nearly 500 so engaged. Ten inde- 

 pendent departments of research, each with its staff of investigators and 

 assistants, have been established. In addition to these larger departments of 

 work, organized by the Institution itself, numerous special researches, car- 

 ried on by individuals, have been subsidized. Six laboratories, for as many 

 different fields of investigation and in widely separated localities, have been 

 constructed and equipped. A building in Washington, D. C, for adminis- 

 trative offices and for storage of records and publications, is half completed. 

 The plans and specifications for the construction of a specially designed ship 

 for ocean magnetic work have been recently completed, and a temporary 

 observatory for supplementary measures of the positions of the fixed stars 

 of the southern hemisphere is now being established at San Luis, Argentina. 

 Work in almost every field of research, from archeology and astronomy 

 to thermodynamics and zoology, has been undertaken, and the geographical 

 range of this work has extended to more than thirty different countries. 

 One hundred and twenty volumes of researches, in nineteen different fields 

 of research, with an aggregate of more than 30,000 pages, have been pub- 

 lished, and 27 volumes of researches are now in press. In addition to these 

 publications issued by the Institution, about 1,000 shorter papers have been 

 pubHshed in the current journals of the world by departmental investigators, 

 by associates, and by assistants. The total amount of funds appropriated 

 for expenditure to date is $3,683,840.00, which includes $293,928.37 reverted 

 and afterwards reappropriated. The total amount expended to date is 

 $3,359,236.17. 



It is a pleasant duty to make record here of an addition of $2,000,000 

 to the endowment of the Institution, tendered by the founder in a letter 



addressed to the President December 4, 1907. This gift 

 Addition to Endow- ^,^^5 formally accepted by the Board of Trustees at their 



meeting of December 10, 1907. The securities of this 

 addition bear interest at the same rate as the securities of the original endow- 

 ment, but interest falls due for the former in January and July instead 



