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1816
PROGRAMME
of the
CENTENNIAL EXERCISES
of the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
to be held
Wednesday, April 5th, and Thursday, April 6th, 1916
at
Washington,
District of Columbia.
AFTERNOON OF APRIL 5th, AT THE NEW NATIONAL MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Beginning at 2:30 o'clock
Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Fisheries.
Subject:— THE BUREAU FISHERIES AND ITS RELATION TO THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.
Dr. Louis A. Bauer, Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Subject:— THE WORK DONE BY THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY IN THE FIELD OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM.
Dr. S. W. Stratton, Director of the United States Bureau of Standards.
Subject:— THE BUREAU OF STANDARDS, AND ITS RELATION TO THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.
Rear Admiral J. E. Pillsbury, United States Navy (Retired).
Subject:— OCEAN CURRENTS AND DEEP SEA EXPLORATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.
Dr. George Otis Smith, Director of the United States Geological Survey.
Subject:— THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND ITS RELATION TO THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.
EVENING OF APRIL 5th, AT THE NEW NATIONAL MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Beginning at 8:00 o'clock
.
Hon. J. Hampton Moore, Member of the United States House of Representatives.
Subject:— THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY'S PART IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMERCE.
Brigadier General W. M. Black, Chief of Engineers, United States Army.
Subject:— THE UNITED STATES CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND ITS RELATION TO THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.
Hon. George R. Putnam, Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Lighthouses.
Subject:— THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE AND ITS RELATION TO THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.
Mr. George Washington Littlehales, Hydrographic Engineer, United States Hydrographic Office.
Subject:— HYDROGRAPHY AND CHARTS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE WORK OF THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.
AFTERNOON OF APRIL 6th, AT THE NEW NATIONAL MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Beginning at 2:00 o'clock
.
Prof. William Henry Burger, Professor of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University.
Subject:— THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY TO GEODESY.
Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright, United States Navy (Retired).
Subject:— THE CIVIL WAR RECORD OF THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY, AND WHAT THE SURVEY IS DOING TOWARDS PREPAREDNESS.
Dr. Otto Hilgard Tittmann, President of the National Geographic Society
Subject:— THE INTERNATIONAL WORK OF THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.
Dr. Charles Lane Poor, Professor of Celestial Mechanics, Columbia University.
Subject:— OCEANIC TIDES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE WORK OF THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.
Dr. Douglas Wilson Johnson, Associate Professor of Physiography Columbia University.
Subject:— THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY TO PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
Exhibit
of the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey at the New National Museum, Washington, D. C.
Wednesday, April 5th, 1916 (Open 10 A. M. to 11 P. M.)
Thursday, April 6th, 1916 (Open 10 A. M. to 6 P. M.)
This exhibit will consist of surveying instruments and appliances, pictures of surveying operations and equipment; charts and other publications of the Bureau. As far as possible the earliest instruments and appliances which were used by this Bureau will be exhibited beside those now in use. The earliest maps and charts of the United States which can be obtained will be shown for comparison with the present charts issued by the Bureau.