growing out of the exploration. In it will be published the result 

 of minor investigations carried on in the various departments in 

 the Institution. 



When the survey of the entire region has been completed, it is 

 proposed to call upon the world's leading specialists in each depart- 

 ment to aid in co-ordinating the work done by the field observers 

 and systematic workers in the various groups. Thus only can 

 deductions and conclusions be supphed that will be in keeping 

 with the monumental labor that must be expended in consum- 

 mating a work of such heroic proportions. 



In conclusion it may be added that a worthy exploration of the 

 Pacific on the fines indicated in this synopsis is a work which with- 

 out doubt, in the bulk of publications and outlay of labor involved, 

 will easily double that so successfully accomplished by the famous 

 Challenger Exploring Expedition around the world; that being 

 the only previous undertaking that has in any way approached in 

 importance the task of exploration outhned for the Pacific Scientific 

 Institution. 



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