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necessarily incomplete. It touches the high spots and refers only to 

 matters likely to be of most popular interest. The work is progressing 

 in all divisions with a vigor and comprehensiveness that promise 

 even better results for the near future. The last congress made an 

 appropriation of $200,000 for the erection of an additional building 

 for the exclusive use of the division of electricity. The pay roll of the 

 bureau includes about 280 names, and after July first it will be 

 increased to something over 300. The additional assistants will enable 

 several divisions to push forward work of great practical significance. 



It would be an injustice not to say that the success of the bureau 

 has been due in no small degree to the continuous service in their 

 respective positions of Dr. S. W. Stratton as director, Dr. Edward B. 

 Eosa as chief physicist, and Mr. L. A. Fisher and Mr. Charles W. Waid- 

 ner as associate physicists at the head, respectively, of the divisions of 

 weights and measures and of heat. 



The scientific conclusions and data secured are published in a series 

 of bulletins, which have now reached the seventh volume and which bear 

 witness to the activity of this branch of the public service. In addition 

 to the bulletins, circulars on important practical problems are issued 

 from time to time; these are sent freely to persons and firms likely to 

 need them in their professional practise or in manufacture. It is a 

 matter worthy of the highest praise that party politics has never had any 

 place whatever in the support or work of the Bureau of Standards. 



