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witli which a student performs his daily 

 work and of his permanent acquisition of 

 medical knowledge fitting him to practise 

 his profession. 



If I have clothed these conclusions in 

 the language of prophecy it is because the 

 title of my discourse has laid this necessity 

 upon me. In forecasting the immediate 

 future, I have borne in mind the history 

 of the immediate past and, if I have failed 

 to read aright the indications of the lines 

 on which our medical schools are to ad- 

 vance, it must be remembered that the de- 

 velopment of a biological science and of its 

 dependent arts not infrequently takes place 

 in totally unexpected directions, thus in- 

 troducing into the path of educational 

 progress perturbations which may well 

 defy prediction. 



H. P. EOWDITCH. 



Haevakd Medical School. 



NATIONAL STANDARDIZING BUREAU* 

 Treasury Department, 

 Office of the Secretary, 

 Washington, April 18, 1900. 



Sir : I have the honor to submit herewith 

 the following draft of an amendment to the 

 sundry civil bill, now pending in the Com- 

 mittee on Appropriations, and to recom- 

 mend that the necessary appropriation to 

 carry the same into operation and effect 

 may be included therein : 



That the Office of Standard Weights and 

 Measures shall hereafter be known as the Na- 

 tional Standardizing Bureau, and shall remain 

 under the control of the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury. 



The functions of the bureau shall consist in 

 the custody of the standards ; the comparison 

 of the standards used in scientific investigations, 

 engineering, manufacturing, commerce, and 

 educational institutions with the standards 



* Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, trans- 

 mittiug, with accompanying communications, a draft 

 of a hill for the establishment of a National Stan- 

 dardizing Bureau. 



adopted or recognized by the Government ; the 

 construction when necessary of standards, their 

 multiples, and subdivisions ; the testing and 

 calibration of standard measuring apparatus ; 

 the solution of problems which arise in con- 

 nection with standards ; the determination of 

 physical constants, and the properties of ma- 

 terials when such data are of great importance 

 to scientific or manufacturing interests and are 

 not to be obtained of sufficient accuracy else- 

 where. 



The bureau shall exercise its functions for 

 the Government of the United States ; for any 

 State or municipal government within the 

 United States, or for any scientific society, 

 educational institution, firm, corporation, or 

 individual within the United States engaged in 

 manufacturing or other pursuits requiring the 

 use of standards or standard measuring instru- 

 ments. All requests for the services of the 

 Bureau shall be made in accordance with the 

 rules and regulations herein established. 



The officers and employees of the bureau 

 shall consist of a director, at an annual salary 

 of six thousand dollars ; one physicist, at an 

 annual salary of thirty-five hundred dollars ; 

 one chemist, at an annual salary of thirty-five 

 hundred dollars ; two assistant physicists or 

 chemists, each at an annual salary of twenty- 

 two hundred dollars ; two laboratory assistants, 

 each at an annual salary of fourteen hundred 

 dollars ; two laboratory assistants, each at an 

 annual salary of twelve hundred dollars ; one 

 secretary, at an annual salary of two thousand 

 dollars ; one clerk, at an annual salary of 

 twelve hundred dollars ; one clerk, at an 

 annual salary of one thousand dollars ; one 

 messenger, at an annual salary of seven hun- 

 dred and twenty dollars ; one engineer, at an 

 annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars ; one 

 fireman, at an annual salary of seven hundred 

 and twenty dollars ; one mechanician, at an 

 annual salary of fourteen hundred dollars ; 

 one mechanician, at an annual salary of one 

 thousand dollars ; one mechanician, at an an- 

 nual salary of eight hundred and forty dollars ; 

 one watchman, at an annual salary of seven 

 hundred and twenty dollars, and two laborers, 

 each at an annual salary of six hundred dollars. 

 The director shall be appointed by the Presi- 



