Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-23

bears the Inscriptlon-''B Benjamin Silllman, professor of natural science in Yale college from 1902 to 1864. Born 1779. Died 1864" | The cost of the work is, we believe, some $12,O0O.
 The Coast and Geodetic Survey. Appeal to Congress by Leading New Ha- ven Citizens Against the Breaking up of the OrSaniz ation of This Depart ment.
 The appended protest, which will be at once submitted to Congress, has received the l signatures of His Honor Mayor Lewis, Pres ident Porter of Yale college, ex-President Weolsey of Yale, Prof. c. S. Lyman of Yale Scientific school, x-Gov. James E. English,
 Prof. W. P. Trowbridge of Columbia col
 lege, N. Y, George H. Townsend Esq, (the last three members of New Haven's board of
 harbor commissioners Prof. A. E. Verrill, of
 Yale Prof. W. D. Whitney of Yale, Hon. N. D. Sperry, Prof. T. A. Thacher of Yale, Hon. J. M Townsend, ex-lieut. Gov. Fran. cis Wayland, Judge s. A. York, T
 R. Trowbridge, E. s. Wheeler, Collector l Beers, Health Officer Lindsley Charles Hervey Townshend and many other | prominent and influential New He- ven citizens. A leading gentleman
 of the city, who is specially com
 potent to speak on the subject from his
 scientific knowledge and training, says: The ] time has now come for Congress to require
 and authorize the Coast and Geodetic Survey
 to extend it's triangulations over the whole country to serve es basis for the State sur- veys. Nothing short of this will answer the
 requirements of our rapidly growing com
 wHplibHiss spd !he nseessities for all the i'm
 under the authority of the States require it. NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, June 20, 1884, | To the Hon. Charles l.. Mitchell, M. O., l Washington, D. c. Dear Sir:-It appears from various notices
 in the daily press that measure has been
 prepared in the House Committee on Appro- l priations having for it's object the breaking ! up of the organization of the Coast and Geo 1 detic Survey; the Geodetic branch of the 1 work to be transferred to the Interior de- partment and placed under the control of the | United Staees Geological Survey. To prevent if possible legislation fraught
 with so much folly and injustice, we the un- | dersigned appeal to you to use jour earnest efforts. The United States Geological Survey has been in existence only very few years. It was created by act of Congress under the ad- l vice of the National Academy of Sciences l
 There seems to have been no effort, however, 1 on the part of the promoter of this new |
 scheme by which the Geological Survey is to |
 absorb the coast andGeodeticSurvey to ascer- l
 tain the views of the best scientific men on 1
 the wisdom of such change.
 We desire to present for your considera- tions the following important facts and req sons why this change should not be made:
 1st, The Coast and Geodetio Survey is iu | full and active progress towards 8 speedy completion, after forty years of laborious, [ honorable and honest work.
 It is just now extending it's main lines of | triangulation and it's topography in such manner that the various State surveys may reap the benefit of it's operations
 The officers Of the Coast Survey have spent 1 their lives in this work, and have accumulat- ed records which have always been alluded | to with pride by scientific men in all civilized lands. It is reasonable to suppose that these | officers can continue the work more efficient ly than new men. Indeed the United States Geological Survey has neither the men, the instruments, the knoEledge of the principles, nor the experience for understanding this work. The result Of the legislation, if ef- fected, would be to dissipate to great ex= tent the useful records that exist to scatter and disperse, to turn out of office tho very men who have made these valuable records, and finally to reduce one of our greatest works to lower scientific level.
 The National Academy of Sciences, in rec ommending several years ago the creation Of the Geological Survey, especially emphasized their opinion that the gecdetic work should remain with the Coast Survey where it can be most economically and efficiently prose cuted and we believe that the opinions of the members of the Academy have under gone no change in this respect
 Finally we would urge on grounds of pub- lie economy. of scientific accuracy, of faithful public service on the part of those en- gagged in the coast survey, that this work ought to remain in the hands of those most competent to continue it to completion, rather than that it should be committed to new and inexperienced men recruited, per- haps, by dubious political appointments
 We hays also to urge a further reason the injustice of thus practically condemning and rebuking men who have spent their lives in building up the practical sciences on this continent, upon which all great Geodetic Sur veys are based, and believe the legislation violates all true principles which sbonld control the civil service of this country.
 This Weeks Races on the Thames.
 NEW LONDON, Conn.,, June 22.-The hour fixed for the Columbia-Harvard freshmen race is o'clock Wednesday. The Yale-Har- yard university race will be rowed at o'clock on Thursday.
 The following are the officers of the Yale Harvard rage: Referee, William Bradford, of | Now York, 8 graduate of Cambridge, Eng land; Harvard, judge in the boat, R. s. Wat son; timekeeper, w. H. Bancroft; judge at the finish, A. F. French; Yale, judge in the boat Robert J. Cook; timekeeper, G. A. Adee; jadge at the finish, E. D. Brandegee.
 Shore Ltce Railway.
 On Saturday afternoon in the directors room of the Shore Line railway, which is ;n be New Haven National bank building, the InauaI meeting vas held and the following