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Measures for Progress: A History of the National Bureau of Standards

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526 APPENDIX A<br />

possessed <strong>the</strong> scientific knowledge and <strong>the</strong> deftness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> artisan necessary to<br />

undertake his work.<br />

More recently it has been said:<br />

His greatest gift to America was not <strong>the</strong> surveys he accomplished—it was his<br />

reverence <strong>for</strong> sound thinking, integrity, and accuracy, which have endured<br />

as basic elements <strong>of</strong> Survey philosophy * *• He may have been as<br />

consecrated a public servant as ever lived.13<br />

13 Annual Report, Smithsonian Institution, 1957, pp. 223, 225.

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