132 EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF 



mittee on Organization, viz.: the statistics of labor, the productive arts 

 of life, public instruction, &c. 



SECTION II. 



Plan of organization, in accordance icith the terms of the resolutions of the 

 Board of Rege7its, providing for the tivo modes of increasing and diffusing 

 hmnv/cdo-e. 



1. The act of Congress establishing the Institution contemplated the 

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

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

 income 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 \vith one another. 



4. To carry out tlie 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 impor- 

 tant current periodical publications, and other works necessary in pre- 

 paring the periodical reports. 



5. The Institution should make special collections, particularly of 

 objects to verify its own publications. 



6. Also a collection of instruments of research in all branches of ex- 

 perimental science. 



7. With reference to the collection of books other than those men- 

 tioned above, catalogues of all the different libraries in the United States 

 should be procured, in order that the valuable books first purchased 

 may be such as are not to be found in the United States. 



8. Also catalogues of memoirs, and of books in foreign libraries, and 

 other materials, should be collected for rendering the Institution a centre 

 of bibliographical knowledge, whence the student may be directed to 

 any work wliich he may require. 



9. It is believed that the collections in Natural History will increase 

 by donation, as rapidly as the income of the Institution can make pro- 

 vision for their reception ; and therefore it will seldom be necessary to 

 purchase any articles of this kind. 



10. Attempts should be made to procure for the Gallery of Arts casts 

 of the most celebrated articles of ancient and modern sculpture. A 



11. The arts may be encouraged by providing a room, free of ex- i 

 pense, for the exhibition of the objects of the Art-Union, and other simi- 

 lar societies. 



12. A small appropriation should annually be made for models of '. 

 antiquities, such as those of the remains of ancient temples, &c. 



13. For the present, or until the building is fully completed, besides ! 

 the Secretary, no permanent assistant will be required, except one, to 

 act as Librarian. , 



14. The duty of the Secretary will be the general superintendence, j 

 with the advice of the Chancellor and other members of the establish- I 



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