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may be indicated here. In a second edition, now in press, of a semi-popular 

 pamphlet, issued on the occasion of the dedication of the Administration 

 Building, in December, 1909, there may be found further historical details 

 with respect to the organization, present status, and character of the work of 

 the departments of research. In an appendix to the Year Book for 191 1 

 there will be published, also, complete lists of the names of Trustees, mem- 

 bers of departmental staffs. Research Associates, collaborators, and of all 

 other persons hitherto connected with the Institution. From these lists it 

 appears that upwards of fifteen hundred individuals have participated, dur- 

 ing this first decade, in the work already accomplished or in that now under 

 way. Summaries indicating the extent of the researches and of the publica- 

 tions of the Institution have been given in previous reports. Bringing these 

 down to date, it may be said that a complete list of the fields of research to 

 which contributions have already been made would include a plurality of the 

 fields, ranging alphabetically from archeolog}' and astronomy through law, 

 linguistics, and literature up to thermodynamics and zoology. In answer to 

 the perennial question, raised by a multitude of correspondents, why other 

 fields have not been likewise entered, it seems fitting to remark here that this 

 fact is due neither to lack of interest on the part of the Institution in these 

 other fields nor to neglect on the part of the public in pressing their impor- 

 tance, but to the more obvious reasons arising from the limitations of in- 

 come, time, and accessibility. Researches of one kind or another under the 

 auspices of the Institution have been carried on in nearly every country, and 

 the publications already issued have been placed in nearly all of the leading 

 libraries of the world, and especially in those of colleges and universities. 

 Up to date these publications have been issued under 156 different titles and 

 in 201 separate volumes. A total of 90,730 volumes has thus far been dis- 

 tributed, chiefly by gifts to libraries and to authors, but to a noteworthy ex- 

 tent also by sales to the increasing number of individuals and institutions 

 preferring to acquire books by purchase. In addition to these works which 

 have been published by the Institution itself, about fifteen hundred papers, 

 giving results of investigations made under its direct or indirect auspices, 

 have appeared in current journals, in proceedings of societies, and other con- 

 temporary media. For the larger undertakings in research, two astronomical 

 observatories, five laboratories, and a non-magnetic ship have been built and 

 equipped, and a total inventory of property under this head includes sixty 

 buildings, ten vessels, and thirteen j^arcels of land. A considerable aggregate 

 of property in apparatus and equipment has been provided, also, by grants to 

 individual investigators, who are connected mostly v»^ith colleges and univer- 

 sities. The total of expenditures of the Institution to date is $5,452,687.21. 

 Of this amount, $1,682,437.53 ^^^ represented in land, buildings, equipments, 

 and publications in stock; $416,978.39 have paid the costs of administration 

 and miscellaneous expenses incident thereto; S3 18.804. 13 have been spent 

 in the work of publications ; and $4,008,540.38 have been applied directly to 

 the prosecution of research. 



