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charge  of  all  the  permanent  work  of  the  station  and  its  branches, 
paying  their  salaries  and  to  organize  the  staff  of  the  observatory 
as  a branch  of  the  Research  Laboratory  of  Physical  Geology,  in 
Boston.  The  payment  of  salaries  by  the  Institute,  however,  shall 
include  only  Faculty  members.  Subordinate  assistants  and  ser 
vants  may  be  paid  from  the  income  fund. 
COST  AHD  AVAILABLE  MONEY. 
It  is  estimated  that  the  buildings,  furniture  and  equipment 
necessary  for  the  purposes  above  set  forth  will  eventually  cost 
from  $20,000  to  $25,000.  This,  together  with  the  salary  of  the 
resident  Faculty  officer,  and  the  services  of  Administrative  and 
Visiting  officers  of  the  Research  Laboratory,  represents  the  pres- 
ent limit  of  the  financial  resources  of  the  Institute  available  for 
this  purpose.  It  will  cost  more  to  establish  a station  at  Kilauea 
than  it  would  to  place  it  at  Blue  Hill,  Massachusetts.  It  is  esti- 
mated that  the  pay  of  assistants  and  laborers,  and  running  ex- 
penses, such  as  instruments,  transportation,  repairs,  supplies  and 
expeditions  will  amount  to  at  least  $7000  per  annum.  The  In- 
stitute has  already  received  contributions  toward  operating  ex- 
penses of  $2200. 
The  Institute  asks  from  the  citizens  of  Hawaii  a subscription  of 
$5000  per  annum,  guaranteed  for  at  least  five  years  from  the  date 
when  operations  at  the  station  shall  begin.  As  the  proposed  work 
of  day  to  day  record  with  instruments  must  above  all  things  be 
permanent,  it  is  assumed  that  this  beginning  will  lead  to  an  endow- 
ment. An  eventual  endowment  of  $100,000  would  assure  the  per- 
manency of  the  establishment. 
If  the  income  above  indicated  is  guaranteed,  Professor  Jaggar, 
now  stopping  in  Honolulu  on  his  return  from  Japan,  will  at  once 
enter  into  communication  with  Boston  and  undertake  to  locate 
and  establish  a station  at  Kilauea,  beginning  work  at  once.  It  is 
hoped  to  get  the  first  instruments,  which  are  now  on  hand  in  Bos- 
ton, set  up  and  in  operation  this  summer.  These  include  a seis- 
mograph, an  equatorial  telescope  and  a transit ; other  instruments, 
which  will  be  obtained  in  Japan,  the  United  States  and  Germany, 
are  tromometers  and  strong-motion  seismographs,  microphones 
and  pyrometers,  and  some  special  physical  and  photograpic  ap- 
paratus. 
“Insect  pests  and  plant  diseases  are  as  abundant  in  Hawaii  as 
anywhere  else,  but  in  Hawaii,  as  elsewhere,  these  yield  readily  to 
the  application  of  scientific  methods  of  control.  There  are  oppor- 
tunities in  Hawaii  for  farmers  or  market  gardeners  who  will  come 
here  and  undertake  the  cultivation  of  garden  vegetables  of  better 
than  the  average  quality.  Cabbages,  beans,  sweet  and  irish  pota- 
toes, green  corn,  lettuce,  parsley,  tomatoes,  beets  and  onions  grow 
as  well  in  Hawaii  as  anywhere  else.” — Jared  G.  Smith. 
