10 PROGRAMME OF ORGANIZATION. 



The following are some of the subjects which may be embraced in the 

 reports: 



I. PHYSICAL CLASS. 



1. Physics, including astronomy, natural philosophy, chemistry, and 

 meteorology. 



2. Natm\al history, including botany, zoology, geology, &c. 



3. Agiiculture. 



4. Aijplication of science to arts. 



IL MORAL AND POLITICAL CLASS. 



5. Ethnology, including particular history, comparative philology, 

 antiqaities, &c. 



0. Statistics and political economy. 



7. Mental and moral philosophy. 



8. A survey of the political events of the world; penal reform, &c. 



III. LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS. 



9. Modern literature. 



10. The line arts, and their application to the useful arts. 



11. Bibliography. 



lU. Obituary notices of distinguished individuals. I 



II. By the publication of separate treatises on subjects of (jencral interest. 



1. These treatises may occasionally consist of valuable memoirs trans- 

 lated from foreign languages, or of articles prepared under the direction 

 of the Institution, or procured by offering premiums for the best exposi- 

 tion of a given subject. 



2. The treatises should, in all cases, be submitted to a commission of 

 competent judges previous to their publication. 



3. As examples of these treatises, expositions may be obtained of the 

 present state of the several branches of knowledge mentioned in the 

 table of rei)orts. 



SECTIOI^ IL 



Plan of organization^ in accordance with the terms of the resolutions of the 

 Board of Regents providing for the two modes of increasing and diffusing 

 Icuouiedge. 



1. The act of Congress establishing the Institution contemplated the 

 formation of a library and a museum ; and the Board of Eegeuts, includ- 

 ing these objects in'the plan of organization, resolved to divide the in- 

 come into two equal parts. 



2. One part to be appropriated to increase and diffuse knowledge 

 by means of publications and researches, agreeably to the scheme before 

 given. The other part to be appropriated to the formation of a library 

 and a collection of objects of nature and of art. 



3. These two plans are not incompatible with one another. 



4. To carry out the plan before described, a library ^vili be required, 

 consisting, 1st, of a complete collection of the transactions and proceed- 

 ings of ail tlie learned societies in the world ; 2d, of the more important 

 current periodical publications, and other works necessary in preparing 

 the periodical reports. 



