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the fiscal year 1911 to 1913 ; by A. C. Fieldner, H. I. Smith, 

 A. H. Fay, and S. Sanford. Pp. ix, 444 ; 2 figs. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Animal Report of the Secretary of Commerce, W. C. 

 Redfield, 1914. Pp. 210 ; with map, plates and text figures. 

 Washington, 1914. — The second annual report of the Secretary of 

 Commerce covers the work of the Department through the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1914, with a general statement extending 

 through October, 1914. The Department includes nine bureaus, 

 viz. : those of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Corporations, 

 Standards, Census, Fisheries, Lighthouses, Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, Steamboat-Inspection Service, and Navigation. By the 

 recent creation of the Federal Trade Commission the Bureau of 

 Corporations will be detached from the Department when that 

 commission is organized and will form its administrative nucleus. 



A general introductory summary of the work accomplished in 

 these various directions is given and then follow separate chap- 

 ters devoted to the individual bureaus. 



As noted below, the Secretary wisely devotes especial attention 

 to the bureau which is conspicuous from the importance of its 

 work and its need of greater financial support, viz. that of the 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



It is stated that the enlargement of the Commerce Building 

 was completed in July so that it now embraces the Bureau of the 

 Census. A new building, for which the land has already been 

 purchased, is contemplated and the Secretary urges that it be 

 planned to contain the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the admin- 

 istrative portion of the Bureau of Fisheries. 



2. The Work and Needs of the United States Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey. — In the recently issued Annual Report of the 

 Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary, Hon. W. C. Redfield, 

 calls particular attention to the pressing needs of the Survey. 

 He speaks of it as " the oldest scientific service of the Government, 

 the greatest of its kind in the world, while the efficiency of its 

 work is as marked as its extent, taking into consideration what 

 the Survey accomplishes both for humanity and for commerce." 

 The Secretary affirms further "that the past attitude of the Gov- 

 ernment toward the Coast and Geodetic Survey — if the magnitude 

 of its task be considered and the quality of its work be weighed — 

 has been both with respect to its housing, its vessels, and to the 

 necessary apparatus for its serious tasks, and particularly as 

 regards the Pacific coast and Alaska, like that of a wealthy and 

 prosperous man refusing to give to his loyal children the neces- 

 saries of life." 



Those closely familiar with the work of the Survey, in the 

 past as in the present, will appreciate the truth of the vigorous 

 and well-timed words of Mr. Redfield. The great extent of 



