10 PROGRAMME OF ORGANIZATION. 



I. PHYSICAL CLASS. 



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

 meteorology. 



2. iSTatural history, including botany, zoology, geology, &c. 



3. Agriculture. 



4. Ai)i)licatiou of science to arts. 



II. MORAL AND POLITICAL CLASS. 



5. Ethnology, including jiarticuhir history, comparative philology, 

 antiquities, &c. 



G, Statistics and political economy. 



7. Mental and nioral i)hilosophy. 



8. A survey of the political events of the world 5 penal reform, &c. 



III. LITERAITRE AND THE FINE ARTS. 



9. Modern literature. 



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



11. Bibliography. 



12. Obituary notices of distinguished individuals. 



II. By the publication of separate treatises on subjects of general interest. 



1. These treatises may occasioually consist of valuable memoirs 

 translated from foreign languages, or of articles prepared under the 

 direction of the Institution, or procured by offering premiums for the 

 best exposition 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 reports. 



SECTION II. 



Flan of orfjanizationj in accordance tcith the terms of the resolutions of the 

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

 Jcnoivledge. 



1. The act of Congress establishing the Institution contemplated the 

 formation of a library and a museum -, and the Board of Kegents, in- 

 cluding these objects in the plan of organization, resolved to divide the 

 income* into two equal parts. 



2. One part to be appropriated to increase and diffuse knowdedge by 

 meaus 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 will be required, 

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

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

 current i^eriodical publications, and other works necessary in preparing 

 the periodical reports. 



"The amount of the Smithsouiau bequest received into the Treasury of the 



Uuited States is $515, 1C9 00 



Interest on the same to July 1, 184G, (devoted to the erectiou of the buihliug) 2i'2, 1'29 00 

 Annual income from the bequest 30, 910 14 



