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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 com- 

 petent 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. Also of the following subjects, suggested by the Committee on 

 Organization, viz : the statistics of labor, the productive arts of life, public 

 instruction, &c. 



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 for- 

 mation of a library and a museum ; and the Board of Eegents, 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 collec- 

 tion 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, con- 

 sisting, 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 periodi- 

 cal reports. 



5. The institution should make special collections, particularly of objects 

 to verify its own publications. 



6. Also a collection of instruments of research in all branches of experi- 

 mental 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 in foreign libraries, and 

 other materials, should be collected for rendering the institution a centre of 

 bibliographical 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 provision for 

 their reception, and therefore it will seldom be necessary to purchase any 

 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. 



11. The arts may be encouraged by providing a room, free of expense, 

 for the exhibition of the objects of the Art-Union and other similar societies. 



12. A small appropriation should annually be made for models of anti- 

 quities, such as those of the remains of ancient temples, &c. 



13. For the present, or until the building is fully completed, besides the 

 Secretary, no permanent assistant will be required, except one, to act us 

 librarian. 



14. The duty of the Secretary will be the general superintendence, with 

 the advice of the Chancellor and other members of the establishment, of the 

 literary and scientific operations of the institution ; to give to the Regents 

 annually an account of all of the transactions ; of the memoirs which have 

 been received for publication; of the researches which have been made; 

 und to edit, with the assistance of the librarian, the publications of the 

 institution. 



