Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-05
CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
THE PRESIDENT, DANIEL c. GIL
MAN, TELLS OF PLANS.
Directors Perfecting Scheme of Work
and Will Issue Statement
This Year.

From the Philadelphia Times, yesterday.
| DR.. Daniel c. Gilman, president of the
| Carnegie Institution and ex-president Of
Johns Hopkins University, addressed the
American Philosophical Society last evening
at the session Of the annual meeting held
| in the University OF Pennsylvania Museums
of Science and Art. DR.. Gilman's subject
was The Advancement of knowledge by
the Aid Of the Carnegie institution" He
described briefly the object of Andrew Car
negie in giving $4,000, 900 for the founda-
| tor of the institution and the labors of the
trustees of the fund in determining the way
IN which the income shall be expended.
II take pleasure in introducing to you a
young aspirant for support" began DR.. Gil
man. THE Carnegie Institution, to which L
refer, needs the guidance Of all elder in
situations Of learning. Previous gifts which
you can recall have been made for the
cause Of religion, for the relief of suffering
and atling humanity, and for education III
the ways Of museums. Now is the time
when gifts are being made solely for the
advance of science. Previously science has
been advanced through the universities, the
learned societies, the colleges. the museums
and the technical schools. Now there are
new channels being opened. One Is the ac-
ticn of the government in the different de-
partments where investigation and research
are being carried on. The biological station
at Woods Holl in New England Is another
and a valuable one. The Institution for
Pathological Research founded by John D.
Rockefeller, has a field distinct from the
medical schools. r.tr
From Franklin to Carnegie.
Now comes a very great. gift. 1t is $50
years from Franklin. the founder of our
society, to Carnegie, but the characteristics
Of both are alike in many respects. One
was a philosopher, the other makes no
such claim, but he is In sympathy with the
philosophers Some say cannot use the
income from his fund. 1t is $500 600 year.
Twenty departments could be defined In the
institutions scope and each claims twice
the entire income for immediate necessities.
The existing state of intellectual activity
and advancement uemanus it.
The trustees Of the fund number thirty,
chosen from all parts of the country. Few
are what is popularity known educators.
None is at present connected with colleges,
for the income is to be distributed to no
rival claimants.
The executive committee of seven is now
studying out the plans for the institution,
and by the early autumn We will draw up q
statement Of results. We want ideas
from any one about this work. Three or
four different IDEAS pass before us. We
might help institutions already founded,
such as that at Woods Holl. We might
found institutions for chemical, physical,
astronomical or economical research. These
would be large ways. Another way would
need no large expenditures. Many are en-
gagged in important work where small pc
cunary assistance would be very valuable.
A little money could be given here there
for an instrument or a piece of apparatus
or a small sum of money given outright.
1t will be extremely difficult to decide just
who should get such aid.
Publication of Memoirs.
Another field is the publication OF me-
! moirs, which would otherwise never be
printed. A very considerable part of the
income might be given to this Again we
might encourage the opening Of the gov
eminent laboratories at Washington to
students from colleges and universities.
| Don't tell me there is money enough to go
round Many who have written me letters
Will be disappointed. They have heard the
sisted and they write I am he Some OF
| these manifest atoms of perverted intellect
ual activity would make one weep-or
| laugh.
| The main influence of the fund will be
| turned where it will do the most good.
| Funds will be advanced where they are
| most needed. There will be no rivalry be-
| tween any different ideas, all will work to-
| gether as Carnegie wished in making the
| gift.
| Il bespeak for the new institution great
| patience. The advancement Of true knowl-
edge is slow. BY making a firm founda-
| ton we will be adding to the knowledge Of
mankind, and 1t will be of service whether
or not 1t attracts attention. 1 ask for sug-
| gestions that we may have the best
thought of the country to help this new in
| stitution unique in the world, the largest
| gift ever made to the advancement OF
| science"