The Late Attacks Upon the Coast and Geodetic SurveyL.R. Hamersly & Company, 1884 - 52 страници |
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Страница 12 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it"
Страница 33 - For extending the triangulation of the coast survey so as to form a geodetic connection between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States...
Страница 50 - It is easy to see that without a permanent nucleus for such a work, the objects and aims must be wavering and unsteady, the methods wanting in uniformity from year to year and from party to party, and the results heterogeneous in kind and in form. Confusion and waste would result from such an organization, and the Survey would in time be abandoned. The scientific parts of such a work require diligent study and devotion to mathematical and physical science, to grasp them in their various bearings...
Страница 50 - The law of 1843 very properly limited the services of officers of the navy to the hydrographic parts of the work — the portions which have a professional bearing, and towards which the inclination of a nautical man may turn with professional pride. Experience has fully shown the advantages of this organization in general. The tendency resulting from the variable elements (the army and navy,) is nevertheless at times to lessen the results produced, by the necessity for turning aside from actual...
Страница 47 - There shall be a Hydrographic office attached to the Bureau of Navigation in the Navy Department, for the improvement of the means for navigating safely the vessels of the Navy and of the mercantile marine, by providing, under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, accurate and cheap nautical charts, sailing directions, navigators, and manuals of instructions for the use of all vessels of the United States, and for the benefit and use of navigators generally.
Страница 32 - That inasmuch as the object and purpose of the survey of the coast refer principally to the commercial interests of the country, and as all the laws of Congress in relation to the same contemplate the employment of civilians and officers of the Army and Navy upon said work, it is the opinion of this board, and they do hereby respectfully recommend, that it should be under the control, and considered a part of, the Treasury Department.
Страница 47 - Office attached to the Bureau of Navigation, in the Navy Department, for the improvement of the means for navigating safely the vessels of the navy and of the mercantile marine, by providing, under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, accurate and cheap nautical charts, sailing directions, navigators, and manuals of instructions for the use...
Страница 51 - I renewed the application for line officers, which has been favorably considered by the War Department, and five officers have been detailed for the service. The increase in the number of officers of the navy attached to the coast survey has in like manner been carried as far as the Navy Department has found it possible to make the details. Such has been the demand for officers for the more immediate duties of the naval service, that those engaged in hydrographic reductions in the office were generally...
Страница 50 - ... experience acquired at the expense of the Survey, by the removal of officers, caused, no doubt, by the exigencies of their proper service, and yet reacting severely upon the Survey. The experience and knowledge of Humphreys, Johnstone, and Prince, of the Army, and of Davis, Patterson, and Porter, of the Navy, cannot readily be replaced ; a detail may be filled, but the knowledge immediately available is not supplied.
Страница 49 - Are the reasons against the project of transfer of the hydrographic work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Navy still deemed insufficient?