474 EDITORIAL 



offered or invited. His opinion is to be considered authoritative 

 in subjects under his supervision, and his approval to any report 

 may be required. This authority, however, is restricted to the 

 scientific aspects of the work. Administrative direction remains 

 as heretofore wholly in the hands of the Director, and the work 

 of the survey will proceed after the manner which has been 

 found successful, of authorization of plans of operations after 

 full consideration and conference upon estimates submitted by 

 geologists in charge of parties. 



Under the organization now adopted, each geologist is at 

 liberty to make full use of the facts which he observes within 

 his field of operations, the degree of supervision exerted by the 

 geologist in charge of any particular subject to be duly credited 

 in an appropriate manner. For the geologists in charge the 

 plan affords an opportunity to study a special subject in all its 

 aspects throughout the field of operations of the survey, either 

 directly by personal observation or by conference with associates. 

 This opportunity is unequaled in both multiplicity and magni- 

 tude of the phenomena presented to each specialist. 



B. W. 



