Institution, and the National Observatory. He recommended that 
the hydrographic work of the Coast Survey be transferred to the Navy 
Hydrographic Office and was “loath to volunteer any opinion” about 
the organization of the Signal Service. Put in modern terms this is 
a recommendation to combine the Geological Survey, Coast and Geo- 
detic Survey, and Bureau of Commercial Fisheries (which since 1884 
has moved from the Smithsonian to Commerce to Interior). In this 
respect the Panel is in complete agreement. However, we are not loath 
to include the Weather Bureau (which in 1884 was in the Signal Serv- 
ice of the Army) and the Coast Survey hydrographic work which was 
not so clearly related to the environmental sciences 82 years ago. We 
also include part of the work of the Bureau of Mines which did not 
exist at that time. 
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