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[[underlined]]Need of an Assistant Secretary for the scientific administration of the four larger Government branches in charge of the Smithsonian Institution.[[/underlined]] The care and development of the four branches under consideration involves the employment of highly trained specialists and their assistants, and the coordination of the activities of each group with those of the other groups and also with those of research and technical workers in the great Government bureaus, such as those of the Agriculture, Interior, and Commerce Departments, and the great research institutions and university laboratories throughout our country and in foreign lands. Such coordination requires the initiative, guidance, and constant supervision of an able, well trained and experienced, broadly cultured scientific man who must also have considerable administrative ability. The time has come when such a man should be provided for, at Government expense, to have in charge, under the direction of the Secretary, the administrative supervision of the Museums, the Zoological Park, the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the National Gallery of Art, in order that a proper scientific administration may be provided for and the necessary relief given the Secretary of the Institution so as to enable him to give his time and attention to the greater development of the research work of the Institution itself. As conditions are today, such talent commands a high remuneration, and there would be no prospect of obtaining a man of adequate qualifications and character without paying him a salary of at least $7,500.

The heads of all the departments of the Carnegie Institution of Washington receive $8,000 or more; those in the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research receive $12,000; the head professors in all our larger universities receive from $7,000 to $9,000; the Secretary of the National Research Council receives $10,000; and the President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington

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