1847] WRITINGS OF JOSEPH HENRY. 269 



prepared under the direction of the Institution, or procured 

 by offering premiums for the best exposition of a given sub- 

 ject. 



2. The treatises should in all cases be submitted to a com- 

 mission of competent judges previous to their publication. 



3. As examples of these treatises, expositions may be ob- 

 tained of the present state of the several branches of knowl- 

 edge mentioned in the table of reports. Also of the following 

 subjects, suggested by the Committee on Organization, viz : 

 the statistics of labor, the productive arts of life, public in- 

 struction, &c. 



SECTION II. 



Plan of Organization, in accordance with the terms of the resolu- 

 tions of the Board of Regents, providing for the two modes of 

 increasing and diffusing knowledge. 



1. The Act of Congress establishing the Institution con- 

 templated 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, agree- 

 ably to the scheme before given. The other part to be ap- 

 propriated 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 proceedings 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, par- 

 ticularly of objects to verify its own publications. 



6. Also a collection of instruments of research in all 

 branches of experimental science. 



