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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 knowledge. 
1. The act of 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 incomé* 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 with one another. 
4. To carry out the plan before described, a library will be re- 
quired, consisting, Ist, 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, particularly of 
objects to illustrate and verify its own publications. 
6. Also, a collection of instruments of .research in all branches of 
experimental science. 
7. With reference to the collection of books, other than those 
mentioned 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 and other materials, 
should be collected for rendering the Institution a centre of biblio- 
graphical knowledge, whence the student may be directed to any 
work which 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 articles of this kind. 
10. Attempts should be made to procure for the gallery of art 
casts of the most celebrated articles of ancient and modern sculpture. 
*The amount of the Smithsonian bequest received into the Treasury of the 
Winiedistaneswisaecis ce pam ae eter oe psa ee treo ot RE A Se A ee $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 re Ld i lel gD me! Bie a 30,910 14 
