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  Scientific 
  Intelligence. 
  

  

  Biographical 
  sketches 
  of 
  the 
  fifty 
  incorporators 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  

   are 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  third 
  chapter 
  (pp. 
  103-200) 
  with 
  excellent 
  por- 
  

   traits 
  of 
  the 
  seven 
  presidents, 
  Bache, 
  Henry, 
  W. 
  B. 
  Rogers, 
  

   Marsh, 
  Gibbs, 
  Agassiz 
  and 
  Remsen, 
  who 
  have 
  served 
  until 
  this 
  

   year 
  ; 
  these 
  sketches 
  are 
  for 
  the 
  most 
  part 
  condensed 
  from 
  the 
  

   seven 
  volumes 
  of 
  Biographical 
  Memoirs, 
  which 
  constitute 
  the 
  

   most 
  continuous 
  and 
  in 
  that 
  respect 
  the 
  most 
  successful 
  series 
  of 
  

   publications 
  that 
  the 
  Academj^ 
  has 
  issued. 
  Only 
  eleven 
  volumes 
  

   of 
  scientific 
  Memoirs 
  have 
  been 
  published, 
  and 
  periods 
  varying 
  

   from 
  one 
  to 
  eighteen 
  years 
  have 
  elapsed 
  between 
  the 
  dates 
  of 
  

   imprint 
  in 
  the 
  successive 
  numbers 
  ; 
  these 
  eleven 
  volumes 
  contain 
  

   only 
  68 
  titles, 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  evident 
  that 
  the 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  

   Academy 
  usually 
  prefer 
  to 
  print 
  their 
  essays 
  in 
  some 
  other 
  

   medium 
  than 
  the 
  ^rcademic 
  publications. 
  

  

  The 
  Academy's 
  work 
  as 
  scientific 
  adviser 
  to 
  the 
  Government 
  is 
  

   treated 
  at 
  length 
  in 
  the 
  fourth 
  chapter 
  (pp. 
  201-334), 
  from 
  which 
  

   it 
  appears 
  that, 
  in 
  the 
  fifty 
  years 
  here 
  considered, 
  32 
  reports 
  have 
  

   been 
  requested 
  by 
  Congress 
  or 
  by 
  governmental 
  officials, 
  and 
  

   made 
  by 
  special 
  committees 
  of 
  the 
  Academy. 
  The 
  number 
  of 
  

   these 
  reports 
  in 
  successive 
  decades 
  is 
  14, 
  2, 
  9, 
  4, 
  3. 
  In 
  view 
  of 
  

   the 
  enormous 
  increase 
  in 
  the 
  scientific 
  activity 
  of 
  the 
  Government 
  

   in 
  the 
  same 
  fifty 
  years, 
  this 
  showing 
  is 
  distinctly 
  disappointing 
  ; 
  

   indeed, 
  in 
  view 
  of 
  the 
  indifference 
  of 
  Congress 
  to 
  the 
  last 
  two 
  

   reports, 
  the 
  showing 
  is 
  so 
  discouraging 
  that 
  the 
  Academy 
  might 
  

   fairly 
  ask 
  to 
  be 
  excused 
  from 
  further 
  trouble 
  of 
  this 
  sort. 
  A 
  

   report 
  on 
  scientific 
  exploration 
  of 
  the 
  Philippine 
  Islands, 
  requested 
  

   by 
  President 
  Roosevelt 
  in 
  1902, 
  was 
  made 
  in 
  1903, 
  but 
  did 
  not 
  

   reach 
  Congress 
  till 
  1905 
  ; 
  it 
  was 
  then 
  referred 
  to 
  a 
  committee 
  

   and 
  ordered 
  to 
  be 
  printed, 
  "but 
  was 
  not 
  reported 
  back." 
  In 
  

   1908 
  a 
  report 
  was 
  asked 
  for 
  by 
  Congress 
  on 
  " 
  the 
  methods 
  and 
  

   expenses 
  of 
  conducting 
  scientific 
  work 
  under 
  the 
  government 
  "; 
  

   the 
  report 
  was 
  carefully 
  prepared 
  by 
  five 
  academicians 
  of 
  high 
  

   ability 
  and 
  eminent 
  position, 
  and 
  submitted 
  in 
  January, 
  1909; 
  but 
  

   its 
  recommendations 
  "have 
  not 
  yet 
  been 
  adopted 
  by 
  Congress." 
  

   The 
  Act 
  of 
  Incorporation 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  provides 
  that 
  the 
  

   actual 
  expenses 
  entailed 
  in 
  making 
  these 
  reports 
  shall 
  be 
  paid 
  ; 
  

   but 
  that 
  the 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  " 
  shall 
  receive 
  no 
  compen- 
  

   sation 
  whatever 
  for 
  any 
  services 
  to 
  the 
  Government 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  

   States." 
  This 
  provision 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  becoming 
  more 
  literally 
  true 
  

   than 
  might 
  have 
  been 
  anticipated 
  when 
  it 
  was 
  worded. 
  

  

  w. 
  M. 
  D. 
  

  

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  States 
  Geological 
  Survey. 
  — 
  A 
  civil 
  service 
  examina- 
  

   tion 
  for 
  an 
  editorial 
  clerk 
  (male) 
  in 
  the 
  U. 
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  Geological 
  Survey 
  

   (salary 
  Si 
  500 
  to 
  $1800) 
  will 
  be 
  held 
  on 
  August 
  6, 
  1. 
  The 
  sub- 
  

   jects 
  embrace 
  : 
  English 
  ; 
  French 
  and 
  German 
  footnotes 
  (transla- 
  

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  into 
  English) 
  ; 
  proof-reading 
  and 
  indexing 
  ; 
  elementary 
  

   Geology 
  and 
  Geological 
  nomenclature. 
  For 
  further 
  information 
  

   apply 
  to 
  Geo. 
  McLane 
  Wood, 
  U. 
  S. 
  G. 
  S., 
  Washington. 
  

  

  Obituary. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Eduard 
  Holzapfel, 
  the 
  well-known 
  Professor 
  of 
  

   Geology 
  in 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Strassburg, 
  died 
  on 
  June 
  11, 
  1913, 
  

   at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  59 
  years. 
  

  

  