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_ We understand that the Regents have decided to divide the available 
income of the fund, equally between the two recognized modes for 
increasing and diffusing knowledge, viz., by stimulating research, and 
by collections. The salary of the Secretary as head of the Institution, 
is to be equally assessed on the two divisions. 
Under the first head it is designed to publish Transactions, to be 
called Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, in which shall ap- 
pear those papers only, which are a positive addition to the great sum 
of human knowledge in whatever department. Original and important 
researches, whether undertaken on the suggestion and at the expense 
of the Institution, or the result of individual authorship,—elaborate me- 
moirs, the costliness of whose publication would be a bar to their ap- 
pearance at the charge of the author, or of scientific societies already 
jects of merely scientific interest. The best aid at the command of 
similar channels. It is proposed to make arrangements with 
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sien, the Artists Fund Society, and similar institutions, for 
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he second great department embraces. objects of various interest 
and much importance. The custody and increase of all collections, in 
instruments, objects of art, antiquity and curious research, will all prop- 
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