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the results of such research to be published under the name of the 

 Carnegie Institution, the Institution to be aided in all its work by 

 an International Council. 



It is earnestly hoped that this opportunity for establishing such a 

 Bureau in the United States will not be missed, and that sufficient 

 funds may be granted to at least set the project afoot, just now when 

 its need, owing to the marked renewed activity in magnetic work, 

 is most keenly felt. As it would be necessary to begin the work at 

 once, temporary quarters for the bureau could be established in the 

 Division of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

 and much of the work of direction of the international work be done 

 by the Chief of that Division, in connection with his regular duties. 



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Washington, D. C, Ja?iuary 27, 1902. 



\Professor G. Neumayer, Director of German Naval Observatory, 



Hamburg, to Mr. Bauer, .] 



[Translation.] 



I take pleasure in acknowledging receipt of your esteemed favor 

 of the 1 2th ult., enclosing a copy of the Plan for a Proposed Inter- 

 national Magnetic Bureau of the Carnegie Institution, and to inform 

 you that I have read the same with very great interest. I am of 

 opinion that if this plan reaches its fulfilment, it is the most impor- 

 tant step ever taken for the development of our knowledge of the 

 earth's magnetism. 



The thought which underlies this plan must appeal to every one 

 who has ever been engaged in geomagnetic investigations. In no 

 other branch of geophysics is it more essential to extend the inqui- 

 ries over the entire earth. Magnetic research, to be successful, 

 requires the cooperation of the most competent investigators of all 

 countries. 



As you know, I have occupied myself with the exhaustive collec- 

 tion of magnetic results and with their discussion, and it may there- 

 fore not be amiss for me to express my opinion regarding the possi- 

 bility of success in this line of inquiry without the working together 

 of investigators over the entire globe. Only by international coop- 

 eration, as is successfully done in the case of the geodetic and astro- 

 nomical sciences, is it possible to prevent useless efforts and regret- 

 table errors. 



