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CONTENTS
Page.
Preface....
Afternoon session, April 5, 1916.....
Opening address of welcome by the Superintendent.
Addresses by-
Honorable William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce..
Doctor Hugh M. Smith, United States Commissioner of Fisheries,
"The United States Bureau of Fisheries and Its Relation to the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey"..
Doctor Louis A. Bauer, Director of the Department of Terrestrial Mag-
netism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, "The Work Done
by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in the Field of
Terrestrial Magnetism”.
Doctor S. W. Stratton, Director of the United States Bureau of
Standards, "The Bureau of Standards and Its Relation to the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey"
Rear Admiral J. E. Pillsbury (U. S. N., retired), "Ocean Currents
and Deep-Sea Explorations of the United States Coast and Geodetic
Survey"
Doctor George Otis Smith, Director of the United States Geological
Survey, "The United States Geological Survey and Its Relation to
the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey".
Evening session, April 5, 1916......
Honorable J. Hampton Moore, Member of the House of Representa-
tives, "The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey's Part in the
Development of Commerce".
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Brigadier General W. M. Black, Chief of Engineers of the United
States Army, "The United States Corps of Engineers and Its Rela-
tion to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey".
Mr. George R. Putnam, United States Commissioner of Lighthouses,
"The Lighthouse Service and Its Relation to the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey".
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Mr. George Washington Littlehales, Hydrographic Engineer of the
Hydrographic Office of the United States Navy, "Hydrography and
Charts with Special Reference to the Work of the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey"..
Afternoon session, April 6, 1916......
Professor William Henry Burger, of the College of Engineering,
Northwestern University, "The Contribution of the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey to Geodesy".
81
Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright (U. S. N., retired), "The Civil
War Record of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and
What the Survey is Doing Toward Preparedness".
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