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ALL well-wishers of the progress of geographical and geological research will welcome the intelligence that in the official estimates for the present year just presented to Congress the complete remodelling of the surveys carried on by the United States has been recommended to be immediately undertaken. The Report recently made by the National Academy of Sciences, to which attention was lately called in these pages (NATURE, vol. xix. p. 213), seems to have been adopted simpliciter. The Engineer Department is henceforth to be charged with no surveys save such as maybe required for military purposes. The surveys of mensuration are to be placed under one organisation, and a new Geological Survey of the United States is to be instituted. Of course the changes are at present only recommended for adoption by the Committee on Appropriations, and there may be a struggle over some of the proposals. We hear indeed that the Engineers are leaving no point in their defence unguarded and are preparing for what is called a “heavy fight.” For their own sakes as well as for the cause of scientific progress we cannot wish them success.
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Reorganisation of the American Surveys . Nature 19, 370–372 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019370a0
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