Five preliminary considerations are noted, including the current shortage of trained conservators. Eight recommendations are made toward a working plan for an Institute. The plan will be treated more fully in <i>Studies in Conservation. It has also been introduced in testimony to a special sub-committee chaired by Senator Claiborne Pell and published by the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. as Joint Hearings before the Special Sub-Committee on Arts and Humanities, Museum Services . -- AATA