10 PEOGRAMME OF ORGANIZATION. 



(6.) Ethnological researches, particularly with reference to the differ- 

 ent races of men in North America ; also, explorations and accurate 

 surveys of the mounds and other remains of the ancient people of our 

 country. 



DETAILS OF THE PLAN FOR DIFFUSING KNOWLEDGE. 



I. By the publication of a series of reports, giving an aecount of the new 

 discoveries in science, and of the chanxjes made from year to year in all 

 hranclies of hnoicledge not strictly professional. 



1. These reports will diffuse a kind of knowledge generally iuteres^ 

 ing, but which, at present, is inaccessible to the public. Some of the 

 reports may be published annually, others at longer intervals, as the 

 income of the Institution or the changes in the branches of knowledge 

 may indicate. 



2. The reports are to be prepared by collaborators eminent in the dif- 

 ferent branches of knowledge. 



3. Each collaborator to be furnished with the journals and publica- 

 tions, domestic and foreign, necessary to the compilation of his report ; 

 to be paid a certain sum for his labors, and to be named on the title- 

 page of the report. 



4. The reports to be published in separate parts, so that persons in- 

 terested in a particular branch can procure the parts relating to it with- 

 out purchasing the whole. 



5. These reports may be presented to Congress, for partial distribu- 

 tion, the remaining copies to be given to literary and scientific institu- 

 tions, and sold to individuals for a moderate price. 



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



1. These treatises may occasionally 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. 



Plan of organization in accordance icith the terms of the resolution of the 

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

 Icnowledge. 



1. The act of Congress establishing the Institution contemplated the 

 formation of a library and a museum ; and the Board of Eegents, in- 



