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II. By the publication of separate treatises on siihjects 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 with the terms of the resolutions of the 

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

 liiowledge, 



1. The actof Congress establishing the Institution contemplated the 

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

 including 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 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 incomj^atible with one another. 



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

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

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

 current periodical publications, and other works necessary in preparing 

 the periodical reports. 



5. The Institution should make special collections, particularly of ob- 

 jects to illustrate and 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 pur- 

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



8. Also, catalogues of memoirs, and of books and other materials, 

 should be collected for rendering the Institution a center of bibliograph- 

 ical knowledge, whence the student may be directed to any work which 

 he may require. 



* The amount of the Smithsonian bequest received into the Treasury of 



the United States is $515, 169 00 



Interest on the same to July 1, 1846, (devoted to the erection of the building) 24'2, 129 00 

 Annual income from the bequest 30, 910 14 



