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scientific workers in the United States 

 looked to England for exact standards, es- 

 pecially in the department of electricity. 

 Now they go to Germany. So completely 

 has the work of the Eeichsanstalt justified 

 the expectations of its founders, and so 



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Observatory, and other buildings will be 

 added at once for the extension of the 

 functions of this Observatory so as to in- 

 cl ude the larger enterprise contemplated in 

 the establishment of the new National 

 Laboratory. 



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Fig. 1. — General Plan of Ground and Buildings. 



substantial are the products of this already 

 famous institution that other European 

 nations are following Germany's example. 

 Great Britain has already made an initial 

 appropriation for a National Physical Lab- 

 oratory to be organized on a plan similar to 

 that of her Teutonic neighbor. Mr. E.. T. 

 Glazebrook, who has long served as secre- 

 tary of the electrical standards committee 

 of the British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, has been appointed Di- 

 rector and has entered on his duties. The 

 new institution will absorb the old Kew 



Russia also has a number of large and 

 well equipped laboratories in connection 

 with her Central Bureau of Weights and 

 Measures. One of these is devoted to the 

 verification of instruments for electrical 

 measurement. It employs fourteen men 

 and the budget is about $45,000 per annum. 



France is moving in the same direction. 

 The great service of France in fixing stand- 

 ards of length and mass has long been freely 

 recognized by the civilized world. But her 

 national bureau for this purpose is now con- 

 sidered to be too limited in scope to solve 



