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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Portrait Group of Drs. Halstead, Kelly, Osler and Welch, of the Medical 

 Department of the Johns Hopkins University. 



broad culture, professional skill and 

 scientific research, and their spirit and 

 example has made the medical de- 

 partment of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity a model of what a medical 

 school should be. 



THE DIRECTORSHIP OF THE U. S. 

 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 



Dr. George Otis Smith has been 

 appointed director of the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the election of Dr. Charles 

 D. Walcott to the secretaryship of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Smith 

 received the bachelor of arts degree 



from Colby College in 1893, and the 

 doctorate of philosophy from the 

 Johns Hopkins University in 189G, in 

 which year he was appointed assistant 

 geologist to the Geological Survey, 

 being made geologist in 1901. He has 

 had charge of the geological work in 

 New England and of work in petrology. 

 The work of the survey has de- 

 veloped with remarkable rapidity 

 under the direction of Dr. Walcott, the 

 appropriation for the current year be- 

 ing in the neighborhood of a million 

 and a half dollars, and the directorship 

 of the survey having become one of 

 the most important and influenti; 1 



