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to me the most practicable and advantageous, simply because I 
have not the opportunity in this article to enlarge upon its scope 
and its adaptability to the end in view, but I believe that sucha 
plan will be found adequate for the maintenance and utilization 
of the park in such a manner as to: produce the most satisfactory 
scientific results ; while, as I have shown, there is need of prompt 
action in some directions, it is not necessary, however desirable, 
that the whole of this plan should be inaugurated at once. On 
the contrary, time and money may be saved by beginning upon 4 
‘small scale, and gradually widening the scope of observation. 
Eventually, however, such a scheme must lead to the introduction 
_ Of observers in every important department of scientific research. 
The most unpleasant part of the whole subject is the pecuniary 
difficulty, but I would gladly repose sufficient confidence in the : 
culture of my countrymen, to believe that an enumeration of the 
immediate practical results to follow from this investment is un- — 
necessary to convince them of its desirability. For the present, 
„no method of accomplishing this plan seems available, except = 
grant from the General Government of an amount sufficient for- 
the labors of a single year, but we may be justified in hoping thee 
. the judicious application of the first grant would render future 
appropriations more apparently necessary. It would not be diff- 
cult to demonstrate the propriety of a large endowment for the 
improvement of the park, but it is foreign to the objects of thi 
paper, which have been to show the value of the tract, and, m & 
general manner, to show how it may be used to advantage, without 
discussing minutely the means to be employed for this purpose 
If the suggestions here made shall aid, in any degree 1 
advancing the cause of scientific research, more will have h 
accomplished than the writer has dared to hope. - 
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