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3. It is obvious that in an institution which makes geology its specialty > 

 the different chairs should be filled by men eminent in their several depart- 

 ments. The inducements which would command talent of the requisite 

 description are : 



{a.) Just pecuniary compensation. • 



{b.) Facilities for investigation. These consist of raw material, authent- 

 ically labeled specimens, books, and a publication fund. 



4. To secure unity and energy in the counsels and operations of the 

 museum, all its scientific interests and relations, and all its internal affairs, 

 whether scientific, prudential or governmental, should be left to the un- 

 trammeled judgment of the director, who should be the sole executive 

 officer of the institution. 



lY. The Expenses. 



1. The expenditures of the museum would be :, 



For salaries of the scientific corps ; 



For publications ; 



For library ; 



For making collections ; 



For incidentals. 



2. The amount appropriated for publications would, to a great extent, 

 return to the library in the form of exchanges.. Sales in the public market 

 would also reimburse the museum to a certain extent. A considerable 

 share, also, of the amount appropriated for collecting duplicates would 

 reappear in the form of exchanges, collected from localities not easily ac- 

 cessible to the collectors employed by the museum. The present expendi- 

 ture for printing the "Appendix" to the Regents' Annua? Report would be 

 discontinued. 



3. As soon as the museum should become sufficiently organized to justify 

 the admission of students, a considerable and constantly increasing portion 

 of the simpler kinds of labor would be performed by them free of charge. 

 They would be glad, also, to engage in the collection of specimens during 

 a part of the year, on the receipt of traveling expenses, or a trifle more. 



4. The salary of the director, to command a geologist and naturalist of 

 preeminent attainments, should not be less than 83,000 per annum. The 

 salaries of the professors should be duly proportioned to that of the director ; 

 say not less than $2,800 each. 



5. The whole annual expenditure of the institution on its initiation might 

 be limited tp $10,000 or $12,000. On attaining its full expansion, as con- 

 templated in the foregoing programme, it would probably rea5li $20,000 or 

 $30,000. 



I have not taken the time to amplify or argue the several points pre- 

 sented. I believe that much could be said in favor of every feature of the 

 institution as laid down above ; but I have no doubt that your own infor- 

 mation, or that of parties accessible to you, will supply the arguments 

 [Senate, No. 89.] 3 



