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In short, with the consent, approval, and cooperation of the Ecuadorian government, the Smithsonian Institution, with the aid of the United States government would:

1. Establish a scientific research laboratory in the Galapagos Island and provide and maintain the necessary buildings, equipment, boats, and resident personnel.

2. Make available facilities for a limited number of properly accredited scientific workers from each country as the laboratory became better established and its facilities adequate for the purpose.

3. Provide free accommodation (food and lodging) for one scientific worker designated by such scientific commission as the Ecuadorian government may appoint for the purpose; the personal compensation or emoluments of this worker to be provided from Ecuadorian sources. 

4. Undertake, within reason and as practicable, scientific investigations of weather and climate (meterology); tides, currents, temperatures, and the chemical constitution of the waters in and about the Islands (hydrography and oceanography); the geology, palaeontology, and biology ^[[(in the widest sense)]] of land and marine and fresh waters, as well as of ocean [[strikethrough]] ^[[in waters and]] [[/strikethrough]] bottoms of the Galapagos area.

5. Make these findings public, with the consent and approval of the Ecuadorian government, in the form of published reports suitably illustrated.

6. With the cooperation of the Ecuadorian government, in the person of a designated representative, make a reconnaissance of the islands for the purpose of locating a suitable site for the laboratory.