176  Carnegie  Institution  of  Washington.  {Amx^\m*m' 
Zoology. — Henry  F.  Osborn,  DaCosta  Professor  of  Zoology, 
Columbia  University,  New  York,  N.  Y.,  Chairman ;  Alex.  Agassiz, 
Curator  Natural  History  Museum,  Cambridge,  Mass.;  W.  K.  Brooks, 
Professor  of  Zoology,  Johns  Hopkins  University,  Baltimore,  Md.;  C. 
Hart  Merriam,  Chief  U.  S.  Biological  Survey,  Washington,  D.  C; 
E.  B.  Wilson,  Professor  of  Zoology,  Columbia  University,  New 
York,  N.  Y. 
These  advisers  were  requested  to  give  the  committee  their  views 
on  various  important  suggestions  received  by  the  Institution,  as  well 
as  independent  recommendations  originating  in  the  committees. 
The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  letter  appointing  the  advisers  and 
inviting  suggestions  and  recommendations : 
March  ii,  1902. 
Dear  Sir  : — The  Executive  Committee  of  the  Carnegie  Institution  has  been 
requested  by  the  Trustees  to  prepare,  in  the  course  of  the  summer,  a  plan  of 
procedure,  and  in  the  meantime  to  engage  in  preliminary  studies  of  the  prob- 
lems committed  to  them,  by  consultation  with  acknowledged  authorities  at 
home  and  abroad. 
The  plan  of  the  Institution  includes  the  appointment  rom  time  to  time  of 
counsellors,  or  advisers,  to  whom  the  committee  may  refer  important  sugges- 
tions, and  from  whom  they  may  receive  independent  recommendations.  You 
are  invited  to  act  as  one  of  these  advisers  until  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Trustees,  in  November  next.  It  is  the  purpose  of  the  Institution  to  provide 
liberally  for  any  expense  that  may  be  incurred  in  clerical  service  and  in  travel 
by  those  whom  they  may  consult.  If  it  is  agreeable  to  you  to  accept  this  invi- 
tation, a  more  personal  communication  will  be  addressed  to  you  at  an  early 
day.    An  immediate  answer  is  requested. 
Respectfully, 
D.  C.  Guzman,  President. 
The  reports  received  from  the  Advisory  Committees,  so  far  as  they 
relate  to  scope  and  plan,  are  printed  in  Appendix  A. 
A  circular  letter  was  also  prepared  and  sent  to  nearly  1,000  scien- 
tific men  and  investigators  of  prominence,  mainly  in  the  United 
States.  This  was  accompanied  by  a  pamphlet  that  included  the 
articles  of  incorporation,  the  founder's  address  and  a  list  of  the  offi- 
cers.   The  circular  letter  is  as  follows: 
Letter  to  the  Heads  of  American  Institutions  and  to  Others  Interested  in  the 
Work  of  Investigation. 
The  Carnegie  Institution  sends  you  herewith  a  copy  of  Mr.  Carnegie's  deed 
of  gift  and  other  information  in  respect  to  the  organization  of  the  new  founda- 
tion. 
