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compact and convenient form there is given 

 all the information in regard to this triangula- 

 tion that is needed by an engineer or surveyor 

 who wishes to utilize the results in controlling 

 and checking surveys or in constructing maps 

 or charts. The locations of more than 1,300 

 points are accurately fixed by this triangula- 

 tion. 



The report, in addition to the details of the 

 foregoing operations and results, contains a 

 record of a wide range of important work for 

 which the aid of a survey was sought because 

 of the special training of its officers. The 

 superintendent attended the Fourteenth Gen- 

 eral Conference of the International Geodetic 

 Association as delegate for the United States 

 and maintained direction of the observatories 

 at Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Ukiah, Cali- 

 fornia, supported by the International Geo- 

 detic Association for the purpose of measuring 

 the variations of latitude; he was also detailed 

 for duty in connection with the presentation 

 of the case of the Unjted States before the 

 Alaska Boundary Tribunal being assisted by 

 one of the officers of the survey. As commis- 

 sioner of the United States he continued the 

 work of remarking the boundary line between 

 the United States and Canada from the Rocky 

 Mountains westward, two of the officers of the 

 survey being employed in the field; and as 

 commissioner of the United States in the In- 

 ternational Delimitation Commission he in- 

 augurated the work of marking the boundary 

 between Alaska and Canada, one of the parties 

 being under the direction of an assistant of 

 the survey. One officer continued on duty as 

 a member of the Mississippi River Commis- 

 sion. One officer having completed the field 

 work of the survey of Mason and Dixon's line, 

 the boundary between Maryland and Penn- 

 sylvania, was then detailed to prepare the 

 maps and report showing the results of the 

 work. Another officer, at the application of 

 the municipal authorities, remained in charge 

 of the triangulation of the Greater New York 

 territory, and one representative of the survey 

 in cooperation with the Louisiana Oyster 

 Commission continued the survey of the 

 natural oyster beds and reefs for the state of 

 Louisiana. 



TUJJ PRESERVATION OF AMERICAN 

 ANTIQUITIES. 



At a joint meeting of the committees on 

 preservation of American antiquities of the 

 Archeological Institute of America and the 

 American Anthropological Association, held 

 at the Cosmos Club in Washington, on the 

 evening of January 10, the subject of pending 

 legislation was considered. It was decided 

 that a memorandum should be prepared em- 

 bodying such provisions from pending meas- 

 ures, as in the judgment of the joint commit- 

 tee should be incorporated into law, and the 

 same presented to the House of Representa- 

 tives' Committee on Public Lands, with the 

 request that a bill should be prepared by this 

 committee based on these suggestions. 



Present : For the Archeological Institute of 

 America, Dr. Seymour, Chairman, Dr. Put- 

 nam, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Bowditch, Dr. Kelsey, 

 Dr. Carroll; for the Anthropological Associa- 

 tion, Mr. Holmes, Chairman, Dr. Putnam, 

 Miss Fletcher, Professor Saville, Dr. Gordon, 

 Mr. Culin, Dr. Kroeber, Mr. Hewett. 



The memorandum was submitted by the 

 committee at the hearing before the Public 

 Lands Committee on Wednesday, the eleventh. 



At the meeting of this committee held on 

 the sixteenth instant it was ordered to strike 

 out all except the enacting clause of S. 

 5603 (the act known as the Lodge-Rodenburg 

 bill which passed the senate la.st April) and 

 insert instead " an amendment in the fonn of 

 a substitute"; said substitute being, with a 

 few minor amendments, the memorandum 

 prepared by the joint committe above referred 

 to. The bill as reported back, referred to the 

 House Calendar, and ordered printed, is as 

 follows : 



Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House 

 of Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled: That for the purpose of 

 preserving and protecting froAi despoliation the 

 historic and prehistoric ruins, monuments, archeo- 

 logical objects and other antiquities, on the public 

 lands of the United States, all said historic and 

 prehistoric ruins, monuments and other objects of 

 antiquity are hereby phiced under the care and 

 custody of the Secretary of the Interior. 



Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior may 

 make temporary withdrawals of the land on 



