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Economics : Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of 

 Labor, Washington, D. C, Chairman; Henry W. 

 Famam, Professor of Political Economy, Yale 

 University, New Haven, Conn.; John B. Clark, 

 Professor of Political Economy, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York, N. Y. 



Engineering : R. H. Thurston, Director of Sibley 

 College, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., Chair- 

 man; William H. Burr, Professor of Civil Engi- 

 neering, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. ; 

 George Gibbs, Consulting Engineer, Baldwin Loco- 

 motive Works, Philadelphia, Pa. ; George S. 

 Morison, Civil Engineer, 49 Wall Street, New 

 York, N. Y. ; Charles P. Steinmetz, Electrician, 

 General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. 



Geography: William M. Davis, Professor of 

 Geology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



Geophysics: [Joint Committee on Geology and 

 Physics.] 



Geology: T. C. Chamberlin, Headjjf Geological 

 Department and Director of Museum, University 

 of Chicago, Chicago, 111., Chairman; Charles R. 

 Van Hise, Professor of Geology, University of 

 Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.; Charles D. Walcott, 

 Director of U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, 

 D. C. 



History: J. Franklin Jameson, Head of Depart- 

 ment of History, University of Chicago, Chicago, 

 111., Chairman; Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 

 Mass.; Andrew C. McLaughlin, Professor of 

 American History, University of Michigan, Ann 

 Arbor, Mich. 



Mathematics: E. H. Moore, Head Professor of 

 Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111., 

 Chairman; Frank Morley, Professor of Mathe- 

 matics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. ; 

 Ormond Stone, Professor of Astronomy and Di- 

 rector of Leander McCormick Observatory, Char- 

 lottesville, Va. 



Meteorology: Cleveland Abbe, Professor of 

 Meteorology, U. S. Weather Bureau, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Paleontology: Henry F. Osborn, DaCosta Pro- 

 fessor of Zoology, Columbia University, New York, 

 N. Y., Chairman; Henry S. Williams, Professor 

 of Geology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 



Physics: R. S. Woodward, Dean of School of 

 Pure Science and Professor of Mechanics and 

 Mathematical Physics, Columbia University, New 

 York, N. Y., Chairman; Carl Barus, Professor of 

 Physics, Brown University, Providence, R. I. ; 

 A. A. Michelson, Head Professor of Physics, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



Physiology {including Toxicology) : S. Weir 

 Mitchell, Philadelphia, Pa., Chairman; H. P. 



Bowditch, Professor of Physiology, Harvard 

 Medical School, Cambridge, Mass.; William H. 

 Howell, Dean of Johns Hopkins Medical School, 

 Baltimore, Md. 



Psychology : J. Mark Baldwin, Professor of Psy- 

 chology, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. 



Zoology: Henry F. Osborn, DaCosta Professor of 

 Zoology, Columbia University, New York, N. Y., 

 Chairman; Alex. Agassiz, Curator Natural His- 

 tory Museum, Cambridge, Mass.; W. K. Brooks, 

 Professor of Zoology, Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore, Md.; C. Hart Merriam, Chief U. S. 

 Biological Survey, Washington, D. C; E. B. Wil- 

 son, Professor of Zoology, Columbia University, 

 New York, N. Y. 



These advisers were requested to give 

 the committee their views on various im- 

 portant suggestions received by the Insti- 

 tution, as well as independent recom- 

 mendations originating in the committees. 

 The following is a copy of the letter ap- 

 pointing the advisers and inviting sugges- 

 tions and recommendations: 



Maech 11, 1902. 

 Dear Sir: 



The Executive Committee of the Carnegie In- 

 stitution have been requested by the Trustees to 

 prepare, in the course of the Summer, a plan of 

 procedure, and in the meantime to engage in pre- 

 liminary studies of the problems committed to 

 them, by consultation with acknowledged author- 

 ities at home and abroad. 



The plan of the Institution includes the ap- 

 pointment from time to time of counsellors, or 

 advisers, to whom the Committee may refer im- 

 portant suggestions, and from whom they may 

 receive independent recommendations. You are 

 invited to act as one of these advisers until the 

 annual meeting of the Trustees, in November next. 

 It is the purpose of the Institution to provide 

 liberally for any expense that may be incurred in 

 clerical service and in travel by those whom they 

 may consult. If it is agreeable to you to accept 

 this invitation, a more personal communication 

 will be addressed to you at an early day. An 

 immediate answer is requested. 

 Respectfully, 



D. C. GiLMAN, 



President. 

 The reports received from the advisory 

 committees, as far as they relate to scope 

 and plan are printed in Appendix A. 



