PROGRESS OF t'OlENCE
��THK I'HOGKESS OF .SCIE.N'CP:
TBE UNITED STATES COAST AND great work accompliBbed by the survey
GEODETIC SUSFET AND ITS since its foundation in 1816. The pro-
EABLT SUPEEINTEND^ gram consisted of three public sessions
ENTS and a dinner. The former were held
Thk centenary of the organization of '° ^•'« auditorium of the New National
the United States Coast and Geodetic Mus*"'", where fifteen addresses were
Survey nas fittingly celebrated in Bi^en on the different phases of the
Washington Inst spring and the pro- survey's activities and on the relation
ceedings have now been issued in a of its work to other scientific bureaua
volnme which forms an interesting ' of the government.
memorial of the celebration and of the The superintendent of the survey, Mr.
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