CHARLES ANTHONY SCHOTT. 
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with the work of the Survey by active duty in the field, but 
the unerring judgment of Superintendent Bache soon dis¬ 
covered the bent of his mind and assigned him to duty in 
the computing division, of which he was made chief in 1855. 
He remained at the head of this important branch of work 
until January, 1900. The progress of the geodetic work of 
the Surve} r had been such that it became necessary to relieve 
him of the burden of routine work in order to enable him to 
devote his energies to the discussion of such arc measure¬ 
ments as had been finished in order that the results might 
be published. 
He completed the record of the measurement of the Great 
Transcontinental Arc along the 39th parallel, which was 
published before his death under the title of The Transcon¬ 
tinental Triangulation and American Arc of the Parallel. 
Another important volume, which treats of the Eastern Ob¬ 
lique Arc of the United States, was prepared by him for the 
printer, but death claimed him before it could be given to 
the world. 
His untiring energy and systematic habits made it possible 
for him to accomplish a great amount of work. In addition 
to his papers on geodesy, hydrography, and especially on 
terrestrial magnetism, which are to be found in the annual 
Coast Survey reports during the many years of his connec¬ 
tion with the Survey, he undertook laborious reductions of 
meteorological and other data collected by the Smithsonian 
Institution or submitted to it in order that they might be 
published through its instrumentality. 
The list of papers published by him discloses at once the 
active interest with which he pursued his studies in terres¬ 
trial magnetism. His labors in the field received a gratify¬ 
ing recognition about two years before his death in the award 
of the Henry Wilde prize, adjudged to him by the French 
Academy of Sciences on the ground that “ the whole of this 
(his) work furnishes one of the most important contributions 
in the history of terrestrial magnetism.” Not the least pleas¬ 
ing feature of the award was the manner of its presentation 
