To facilitate the research work from time to time, additional 

 tables of research under the control of the Institution will be 

 endowed, which will be provided by patrons and interested insti- 

 tutions in such a way that the Pacific Scientific Institution can call 

 to its assistance a corps of specialists, as they are required, to work 

 on the problems with which the survey is to deal, and at the same 

 time to furnish specialists in the old well-established museums and 

 universities much needed opportunity for colateral research in the 

 Pacific insular province. 



This, it is confidently believed, will promote a spirit of co-opera- 

 tion among the universities, museums, and scientific institutions 

 of the world, that are directly or indirectly interested in a study of 

 the Pacific, which will be most helpful and desirable in every way. 



THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION 



The present plan for field work is to acquire an especially 

 equipped yacht of from five to seven hundred tons capacity, which 

 will be provided with sails as well as oil-burning engines, and fitted 

 with the necessary accommodations for fifteen scientific men, 

 including laboratories, field library, storage tanks, etc. 



This vessel, using Honolulu as a base, and establishing secondary 

 focal points from which to carry on its work, will make cruises to 

 the various groups of islands in the Pacific region. The voyages 

 can be so arranged that the entire ocean, with its more than two 

 thousand islands, may be thoroughly covered in about fifteen 

 excursions. Thus the vast region would be worked over, group 

 by group, with a fully equipped corps of especially trained field 

 scientists; the time required to complete the work, of course, vary- 

 ing with the number and size of the parties in the field. In this 

 way the work and publications on any group, as for example on the 

 Society Islands, would be uniform and complete; every depart- 

 ment of ethnology and natural history will be treated, both in the 

 field and in the subsequent publication, by a specialist. By reason 

 of a carefully prearranged plan, the study of each island will be 

 made with an understanding of the great ultimate object, namely, 

 knowledge of the Pacific Ocean as a whole. The data thus 

 gathered will always be even and of a comparable character. 



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