16 NINETEENTH ANNUAL EEPORT OF THE REGENTS, 



II. The Operations. 



1. The increase of the number of specimens in all the departments, but 

 especially in geology and paleontology, and those families of zoology and 

 botany most dir.ectly tributary. 



2. The scientific investigation, description and cataloguing of the species 

 and varieties ; the arrangement of series for the illustration of species with 

 their varieties ; the making of sections and preparations, and the system- 

 atic arrangement of the specimens so as to be most convenient and in- 

 structive for the student and visitor. " ' 



S. Instruction and demonstrations for the benefit of such students as 

 may be admitted to the working rooms of the museum. 



4. An annual course of popular lectures might be given by members 

 of the scientific corps and other authorized persons, the object of which 

 should be to set forth the recent advances made in natural' history and 

 the applications of natural history to the common wants of mankind. 



5. As the institution without the agency of the press would be compara- 

 tively mute and inefficient, provision should be made for a certain amount 

 of printing and publication. Such publications might consist of : 



(a.) An annual report to the Legislature, which, in view of the other publi- 

 cations, might be comparatively brief. 



(6.) A bulletin, issued as often as the state of the work might require, 

 setting forth with adequate pictorial illustrations the principal permanent 

 results of the intervening period. 



(c.) An annual volume of selections from the public lectures delivered. ■ 



In all publications of the museum no opportunity should be lost for ex- 

 hibiting the applications of the results obtained to the economies of life, to 

 education and to religion. 



III. The Scientific Staff. 



1. The ultimate organization and perfection of the museum, and its ope- 

 rations, would require a scientific staff something like the following : 



A director ; 



A professor of zoology and general paleontology ; 

 A professor of botany and botanical paleontology ; 

 * A professor of mineralogy and chemical and lithologieal geologj' ; 

 A professor of mines and mining ; 



A taxidermist, dissector and maker of preparations ; . 

 A draughtsman ; 



An engraver ; ^ 



Collectors. 



2. The most indispensable of these officers would be the director, taxi- 

 dermist, draughtsman, engraver and collectors. The profeesorships of min- 

 eralogy and of mines and mining would address the popular appreciation, 

 and it might be desirable to fill one or both of them among the first. The 

 professorship of botany and botanical paleontology is farthest removed, per- 

 haps unjustly, from the ordinary operations and aims of geology and mining. 



