174  Carnegie  Institution  of  Washington.  {k™\l^\m™m' 
Advisory  Committees. — As  soon  as  it  was  organized  the  Execu- 
tive Committee,  in  compliance  with  the  instructions  of  the  Trustees, 
began  an  investigation  to  determine  what  work  should  be  entered 
upon,  in  the  immediate  future,  by  the  Institution.  Its  first  step  con- 
sisted in  the  appointment  of  advisory  committees.  Eighteen  such 
committees  were  appointed,  as  follows : 
Anthropology. — William  H.  Holmes,  Chief,  Bureau  of  American 
Ethnology,  and  Head  Curator,  Department  of  Anthropology,  U.  S. 
National  Museum,  Washington,  D.  C,  Chairman ;  Franz  Boas, 
Curator,  Department  of  Anthropology,  American  Museum  of 
Natural  History,  New  York,  N.  Y.;  George  A.  Dorsey,  Field  Colum- 
bian Museum,  Chicago,  111. 
Astronomy. — E.  C.  Pickering,  Professor  of  Astronomy  and 
Director  of  Harvard  Observatory,  Cambridge,  Mass.,  Chairman; 
Lewis  Boss,  Director  of  Dudley  Observatory,  Albany,  N.  Y.;  George 
E.  Hale,  Director  of  Yerkes  Observatory,  Williams  Bay,  Wis.;  S.  P. 
Langley,  Secretary  Smithsonian  Institute,  Washington,  D.  C;  Simon 
Newcomb,  late  Superintendent  of  Nautical  Almanac,  Washington, 
D.  C. 
Bibliography. — Herbert  Putnam,  Librarian  of  Congress,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  Chairman;  Cyrus  Adler,  Librarian  Smithsonian 
Institute,  Washington,  D.  C;  J.  S.  Billings,  Director  New  York 
Public  Library,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Botany. — Frederick  V.  Coville,  Botanist,  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture, Washington,  D.  C,  Chairman;  N.  L.  Britton,  Superintendent 
New  York  Botanical  Garden,  New  York,  N.  Y.;  John  M.  MacFarlane, 
Professor  of  Botany,  University  of  Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia,  Pa.; 
Gifford  Pinchot,  Forester,  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 
Chemistry. — Ira  Remsen,  Professor  of  Chemistry  and  President  of 
Johns  Hopkins  University,  Baltimore,  Md.,  Chairman ;  T.  W. 
Richards,  Professor  of  Chemistry,  Harvard  University,  Cambridge, 
Mass.;  Edgar  F.  Smith,  Professor  of  Chemistry,  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania, Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Economics. — Carroll  D.  Wright,  Commissioner  of  Labor,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  Chairman ;  Henry  W.  Farnam,  Professor  of  Political 
Economy,  Yale  University,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  John  B.  Clark,  Pro- 
fessor of  Political  Economy,  Columbia  University,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Engineering. — R.  H.  Thurston,  Director  of  Sibley  College,  Cor- 
