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merit, pr-ovidin:?; q-u-^rtors, -"nd '^ffo-rding frcilitles, d.-'t''-- r.nd super- 

 vision, giving to qupJified workers trr.ininp "nd experience in re- 

 sB'irch under Bureau ^.uspices "ind cooper^.tlOR. " This is effected 

 hy the reception b'* the Bureau of research ossoci'^tes from comner- 

 cir'l or education'."".! institutions, p-^ id by the I'^tter, hut working 

 in the well equipped laboratories of the Bureau under direct over- 

 sight by specialists in thoir p rticulrr fields. This opens M.n op- 

 portunity for the improvement or devising of instruments of pre- 

 cision that could h"rdlv be equ' lied in any other way. The Canadian 

 Research Council is now developing N.'.tional Laboratories '"her'.; sim- 

 ilar assistance may be expected. 



Express mention of the Geological Survey in the enabling •■ct 

 of 1892 equally authorizes reception of outside students. And \"e 

 are informed by the Surve:;- that it c"n offer the hospitality of its 

 I'^bomtories to investigators from priv:-te institutions If no ex- 

 pense to the. Survey is involved. T''^ is opens the v/ay to studies of 

 sediments, etc. under supervision; bu.t present facilities ^llow the 

 reception of only "bout three such visitors to the physical and 

 chem.ical lai-ioratories of the Survey, and the demand is so constant 

 that tlere v/ould only be room occasion'^lly for " visiting oceano- 

 grapher. Little assistance, then, can be expected from the Survey 

 in this v/a", unless its facilities should be considerably expanded 

 of which there seem.s no i-nmedi'' te prospect. 



The Geological Survey of Canada, also i^ve '-^re informed) would 

 offer the hospit^. lity of its laborator-, library, and of^er facil- 

 i.ties in ;)tt,-'wa to qualified students. 



The Tj. 3. Tiava] Observatory is also, by law, authori'^^ed to re- 

 ceive outside stiidents, but its special fields of -^.ctivity are so 

 remote from most of the problems now urgent in Jceanograph^r that the 

 facilities it might offer ■-■re h':rdly germane to the present dis- 

 cussion. The Observator77' is the only scientific division of the 

 Navy in which extension of research facilities is definitel^,^ auth- 

 orized; nor could such general hospitality fairly be asked of the 

 Naval Research Laboratory because of the danger that confidential 

 information of military value might be disclosed. 



D. DETAIL OF P.-^RSON'^IaJL TR;.INEr IN OCEANOGRAPHY 



Little assistance can be expected from the Governments in this 

 respect. The Federal Services do, it is true, include a consider- 

 able number of scientists trained and experienced in one or another 

 field of Oceanography; but rarely could, an'/ of these leaders leave 

 their regular duties, even temporarily, without disrupting the pro- 

 jects for which they are officially responsible. 



The U. S. National Museum would, on occasion, detail a biolo- 

 frist to care for the collections on some important expedition! the 

 h. S. Bureau of Fisheries, or the Biological Bo'^rd of Canada might 

 temporatily contribute an expert to oversee the handling of collect- 

 ing gear* the U. S. '''eather Bureau and the Canadian '.leteorological 

 Service, a meteorologist, etc. But this would ap-'^ly only to isol- 

 ■^.ted pro.iects. Oceanographers, to c^.rry on long continuing explor- 



