8 PROGRAMME OF ORGANIZATION. 
10. In order to compensate, in some measure, for the loss of time 
occasioned by the delay of eight years in establishing the Institution, 
a considerable portion of the interest which has accrued should be 
added to the principal. 
11. In proportion to the wide field of knowledge to be cultivated, 
the funds are small. Economy should, therefore, be consulted in the 
construction of the building ; and not only the first cost of the edifice 
should be considered, but also the continual expense of keeping it in 
repair, and of the support of the establishment necessarily connected 
with it. There should also be but few individuals permanently sup- 
ported by the Institution. 
12. The plan and dimensions of the building should be determined 
by the plan of the organization, and not the converse. 
13. It should be recollected that mankind in general are to be 
benefited by the bequest, and that, therefore, all unnecessary expen- 
diture on local objects would be a perversion of the trust. 
14. Besides the foregoing considerations, deduced immediately from 
the will of Smithson, regard must be had to certain requirements of 
the act of Congress establishing the Institution. These are, a library, 
a museum, and a gallery of art, with a building on a liberal scale to 
contain them. 
SECTION I. 
Plan of Organization of the Institution in accordance with the foregoing 
deductions from the will of Smithson. 
To INCREASE KNOWLEDGE. It is proposed— 
1. To stimulate men of talent to make original researches, by offer- 
ing suitable rewards for memoirs containing new truths ; and, 
2. To appropriate annually a portion of the income for particular 
researches, under the direction of suitable persons. 
To DIFFUSE KNOWLEDGE. It is proposed— 
1. To publish a series of periodical reports on the progress of the 
different branches of knowledge ; and, 
2. To publish occasionally separate treatises on subjects of general 
interest. 
DETAILS OF THE PLAN TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE. 
I. By stimulating researches. 
1. Facilities afforded for the production of original memoirs on all 
branches of knowledge. : 
2. The memoirs thus obtained to be published in a series of vol- 
umes, in a quarto form, and entitled Smithsonian Contributions to 
Knowledge. 
3. No memoir on subjects of physical science to be accepted for 
