Carnegie Institution of Washington

an organization for the encouragement of investigation, research, and discovery. It was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1902. He gave the institution $10,000,000 to start with. In 1907 he gave an additional $2,000,000. It is the intention of the institution to encourage original investigators by providing funds and facilities necessary to carry on work that ordinary institutions of learning cannot afford. The funds are handled by men of scholarship and integrity. Ex-President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard is a member of the board. In 1908 a desert botanical laboratory was maintained at Tucson, Arizona; a station for experimental evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York; a marine biological laboratory at Tortugas, Florida; a laboratory at Washington, D. C.; a solar observatory on Mount Wilson, California; a nutrition laboratory at Harvard. A large number of special investigators were granted salaries and were given funds to be used in connection with university departments for research, especially in history, economics, and sociology. An appropriation was made to build a non-magnetic sailing vessel for magnetic observations in the Atlantic. Luther Burbank was granted a sum sufficient to enable him to devote himself entirely to experimental work. The publications of the institute numbered about 150 volumes in 1909. These books are sought eagerly in exchange by institutions of learning both at home and abroad.