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SCIENCE 



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seum, the Office of Public Buildings and 

 Grounds, the Board of Ordnance and 

 Fortifications, the Bureau of Navigation, 

 the Bureau of Education, the "Weather 

 Bureau, the Bureau of Animal Hus- 

 bandry, the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 the Bureau of Chemistry, the Bureau of 

 Soils, the Bur eauof Entomology, the Bureau 

 of Biological Survey, the Bureau of Cor- 

 porations, the Bureau of Manufactures, the 

 Bureau of Labor, the Bureau of the Census, 

 the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Bureau 

 of Standards, the Bureau of Statistics, the 

 Bureau of Fisheries, the Bureau of Immi- 

 gration and Naturalization. In these and 

 other bureaus and divisions are available a 

 vastly wider variety of material for scien- 

 tific research and greater collection of books 

 and manuscripts than elsewhere exist. To 

 enumerate in detail the facilities and ma- 

 terials available for work in each of the 

 domains of knowledge would require more 

 space than is allowed for this entire paper. 

 Also, such a statement is rendered unneces- 

 sary because of the admirable report^ re- 

 garding the matter by President Arthur T. 

 Hadley, but to serve as illustrations some 

 of the facilities for a few of the lines of 

 knowledge are mentioned. 



For the modern humanities — political 

 science, political economy and sociology, 

 there is a wealth of material in nearly 

 every department. The Department of 

 Labor, the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion, the Census Bureau, the Bureau of 

 Statistics, the Bureau of Pensions, the 

 Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization 

 and the Bureau of Corporations, are all 

 applied divisions of political economy and 

 political science. Nowhere else in the 

 country is there such a mass of first-hand 



' ' ' Facilities for Study and Eesearch in the 

 Offices of the United States Government at Wash- 

 ington," by Arthur Twining Hadley, Bulletin 398, 

 TJ. S. Bureau of Education. 



information regarding many of the most 

 pressing problems for these subjects. Also 

 the various government activities of Wash- 

 ington, comprising congress, the executive 

 offices, the judiciary, and their numerous 

 divisions and branches give illustration of 

 practical political science on the largest 

 scale. At Washington not only may the 

 student of political science have the ma- 

 terial of the subject, but also he may appre- 

 ciate with what labor and difficulty results 

 are achieved in practise. 



For history, and especially the history of 

 America, at the Congressional Library is 

 a vast amount of material, indeed prac- 

 tically everything which is in printed form ; 

 not only so, but in the library is a vast col- 

 lection of documents. In the State Depart- 

 ment, the War and Navy Departments, etc., 

 are the archives of the government since its 

 foundation, all but a small part of which 

 are available for the student of history. 



For anthropology, the National Museum 

 and the Bureau of Ethnology have collec- 

 tions and materials of the first order of im- 

 portance ; indeed no other collection of the 

 country can approach them, with the excep- 

 tion of the American Museum of Natural 

 History in New York. 



For physics, astronomy and mathematics, 

 there is a great mass of material in the 

 National Observatory, in the Bureaus of 

 the War and Navy Departments, in the 

 Coast Survey, the Bureau of Standards, the 

 Weather Bureau, the Patent Office and 

 other departments. 



In chemistry, there are laboratories in 

 almost every department and bureau which 

 deals with materials, both organic and 

 inorganic. 



For geology and its related subjects, 

 geography, physiography and paleontology, 

 at the Geological Survey and the National 

 Museum is found one of the world's largest 

 collections. 



