A D V E FiTl S E M E N T . V 



II. To INCREASE KNOWLEDGE. — It in ulso proposed to appropriate a portion of the 

 income, annually, to special objects of research, under the direction of suitable 

 persons, 



1. The objects, and the amount appropriated, to be recommended by counsellors 

 of the Institution. 



2. Appropriations in different years to different objects ; so that in course of 

 time, each branch of knowledge may receive a share. 



3. The results obtained from these appropriations to be published, with the 

 memoirs before mentioned, in the volumes of the Smithsonian Contributions to 

 Knowledge. 



4. Examples of objects for which appropriations may be made : 



(1.) System of extended meteorological observations for solving the problem of 

 American storms. 



(2.) Explorations in descriptive natural history, and geological, magnetical, and 

 topographical surveys, to collect materials for the formation of a Physical Atlas of 

 the United States. 



(3.) Solution of experimental problems, such as a new determination of the 

 weight of the earth, of the velocity of electricity, and of light ; chemical analyses 

 of soils and plants ; collection and publication of articles of science, accumulated 

 in the offices of Government. 



(4.) Institution of statistical inquiries with reference to physical, moral, and 

 political subjects. 



(5.) Historical researches, and accurate surveys of places celebrated in Ameri- 

 can history. 



(6.) Ethnological researches, particularly with reference to the different races 

 of men in North America ; also explorations, and accurate surveys, of the mounds 

 and other remains of the ancient people of our country. 



I. To DIFFUSE KNOWLEDGE. — // is proposed to publish a series of reports, giving 

 an account of the new discoveries in science, and of the changes made from year to 

 year in all branches of knowledge not strictly professiotial, 



1. Some of these 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 different 

 branches of knowledge. 



