an undertaking, the Pacific Scientific Institution has been formed. 

 It is a corporation under the control of an especial honorary board 

 of fifteen trustees, who are empowered to receive, in trust, funds, 

 property, or equipment for the prosecution, promotion, and main- 

 tenance of scientific research in the Pacific Ocean, The main 

 object of the trust, as set forth in the charter, is the effecting of a 

 thorough biological and ethnological survey of the Pacific. In 

 addition to other liberal powers, the trustees are given discretion 

 to wind up their affairs, when in their judgment the main object 

 for which the trust is created shall have been completed. They 

 will, in that event, make such a disposition of the trust funds as 

 may have been provided for by the benefactors, or in default of 

 such instructions, as they themselves may, within limitations, deter- 

 mine.^ They are also empowered to reorganize, endow, and 

 permanently establish any one or all of the especial institutions 

 which may be created by them for the continuance of research in the 

 Pacific. 



As the means appear, the trustees will establish central offices 

 of administration in Honolulu provided with laboratories, libraries, 

 printing equipment, etc., which they will house in buildings of a 

 more or less temporary character. They will also, as speedily as 

 possible, establish a biological station, an aviary or zoological 

 garden, a garden of acclimatization or botanical garden, and such 

 other scientific institutions or facilities as they may in future deem 

 desirable.^ When practicable, the Pacific Scientific Institution will 

 affiliate with the various scientific and educational institutions 

 already well established in Hawaii, such as the Honolulu Aquarium^ 

 the Historical Library, the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Oahu 

 College, Hawaiian Experiment Station, and similar institutions, 

 with the object of forming a local research institution with adequate 

 facilities for prosecuting, in the fullest and most satisfactory way, 

 a work of the extent and character indicated in the general plan 

 of exploration. 



» The Peabody fund for the promotion of education in the South is cited as a 

 strong precedent case. 



2 In this connection I am happy to say that provision has aheady been made 

 for the establishment of the three important scientific centers just mentioned, 

 through the munificence of interested patrons in Honolulu. 



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