Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
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Excerpt from Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: To the Senate and House Representatives, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Conditions of the Institution, During the Year 1850 Moreover, there is a tendency in the management of public institutions to lose sight of the object for which they were established, and hence it becomes important frequently to advert to the principles by which they ought to be governed. I beg leave, therefore, as introductory to this report, briefly to recapitulate some of the propositions of the programme of organization, and to state some of the facts connected with its adoption. Smithson left his property, in case of the death of his nephew, to whom it was first bequeathed, "to found at Washington under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." These are the only words of the testator to serve as a guide to the adoption of a plan for the execution of his benevolent design. They are found, however, when attentively considered to admit of legitimate deductions sufficiently definite and comprehensive. 1. The bequest is made to the United States, in trust for the good of mankind. 2.The objects of the Institution are two-fold; first, to increase, second, to diffuse knowledge; objects which, though often confounded with each other, are logically distinct and ought to be separately regarded. The first is the enlargement of the existing stock of knowledge by the discovery of new truths, and the second is the dissemination of these and other truths among men. 3. No particular kind of knowledge is designated, hence a liberal interpretation of the bequest will exclude no part of the great domain of science and literature from the degree of attention its importance may demand. 4. Since mankind are to be benefitted by the bequest, any unnecessary expenditure on merely local objects, would not be in accordance with the proper administration of the trust. 5. Though the funds are generally considered large, and much is expected of them, they are really small in proportion to the demands made upon them. The annual income of the bequest, is less than half the cost of the publication of a single yearly report of the Patent office. 6. In order therefore, that the limited income may effect the greatest amount of good, it should be expended in doing that which cannot be done as well by other means. These views which have commanded the assent of all unprejudiced and reflecting persons, who have studied the subject, have been the guiding principles in all cases in which I have had any power of direction, and I am happy to say they are fully adopted by the present directors and officers of the Institution. To carry out the design of the testator, various plans were proposed, but most of these were founded on an imperfect apprehension of the terms of the Will. The great majority of them contemplated merely the diffusion of popular information, and neglected the first and the most prominent requisition of the bequest, namely: the "increase of knowledge." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally le
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