HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 2838 
Mr. Brooks. In northwestern New Mexico and southwestern 
Colorado. 
The CuairmMan. Doctor, is there anything further you want to say 
to us, particularly / 
Mr. Howarp. Nothing, sir, except to answer questions. 
The CuarrMan. Well, then, the committee will now adjourn until 2 
ae afternoon. I am very much obliged to you, Doctor 
oward. 
Thereupon, at 12.03 o’clock p. m., the committee took a recess. 
AFTER RECESS. 
STATEMENT OF C. HART MERRIAM, BIOLOGIST AND CHIEF OF 
THE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The CHarrMan. Gentlemen, we have Doctor Merriam, Chief of the 
Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture, before us this 
afternoon. Now, Doctor, we notice that on page 20 of the estimates 
the Secretary recommends, as he did in the case of the Entomological 
Division, that your division be transferred into a bureau. What 
ey do you expect to be derived from that, outside of increase of 
salary ? 
Mr. Merriam. The bureau organization would put us in a better 
position with respect to the other branches of the Department, and 
with respect to the outside world, in a more dignified position. Doc- 
tor Howard and I suffer now from being below the rank of men who 
have heretofore been coordinate with us in their work. I am speak- 
ing of the work of which we have charge, and not as respect to our- 
selves as individuals; but the work is recognized generally as of a 
much higher grade when it has been elevated to bureau rank, as in the 
case of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Bureau of Chemistry, Bureau of 
Soils, Bureau of Forestry, and so on, which were divisions coordinate 
with ours a few years ago. 
The CuarrmMan. Do you think your work will be dene ina better 
way than it is now, as a matter of fact? 
Mr. Merriam. It will not be done any better; we hope to do more 
of it. It would place us ona better footing in the Department and 
outside of the Department if we have equal rank with other lines of 
investigation to be carried on. 
Mr. Scorr. In just what way does it put you on a better footing— 
in what practical way—looking toward the better prosecution of your 
work? 
Mr. Merriam. In our field work and in all the lines of work that 
we are carrying on. We are now considered as merely a subordinate 
division. The work has not the rank that commends itself to the 
people with whom we come in contact in the office and in the field with 
the work that is recognized by the Government itself as of greater 
rank, 
Mr. Scorr. When your men go out into the field to do this work, 
do the people with whom they come in contact there inquire, first of all, 
whether they are working under a bureau or under a division? 
Mr. Merriam. Certainly not. 
Mr. Scorr. Then I hardly understand what you mean by saying that 
your work will have a higher rank and a better standing with the people 
with whom you come in contact out in the field. 
