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cuted under the supervision of committees of federal officers, and of which the following is an approximate list of names that suggest the general variety of intellectual work going on under the government:-- LEGISLATIVE BRANCH. SENATE. 1. B. -- Standing committee on agriculture and forestry. 2. A. -- Standing committee on mines and mining. 3. B. -- Standing committee on fish and fisheries (fish-commission). 4. D. -- Joint committee on the library of congress. 5. B. -- Joint committee on public buildings and grounds (botanical gardens). 6. B. -- Select committee to investigate the introduction and spread of epidemic diseases.

HOUSE.

7. E. -- Standing committee of coinage, weights and measures. 8. A. -- Standing committee of rivers and harbors. 9. B. -- Standing committee of agriculture. 10. B. -- Standing committee of railways and canals. 11. A. -- Standing committee of mines and mining. 12. A. -- Standing committee of public buildings and grounds. 13. A. -- Standing committee of levees and improvements of the Mississippi River. 14. D. -- Joint committee on the library of congress. 15. A. -- Select committee on ventilation and acoustics.

EXECUTIVE BRANCH.

16. A. -- Executive mansion. Commissioner of public buildings, including greenhouses and propagating gardens.

STATE DEPARTMENT.

17. A. -- Bureau of statistics. 18. D. -- Bureau of rolls and library.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT

19. Government actuary. 20. A -- Supervising architect's office. 21. C. -- Bureau of engraving and printing. 22. B. -- Bureau of statistics 23. A. -- Inspector-general of steamboats. 24. A. -- Life-saving service. 25. B. -- Commission on cattle-diseases. 26 B -- Commissioner of internal revenue. 27. C. -- Director of the mint. 28. A. -- Lighthouse board. 29. A. -- Bureau of weights and measures. 30 A. -- U.S. coast-survey. 31. A. -- U.S. geodetic survey. 32. B. -- Marine-hospital service.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

33. U.S. military academy at West Point.

Medical department

34. Meteorological division. 35. B. -- Medical museum, and medical history of the war. 36. Laboratory 37. Library and bibliography

Bureau of engineers.

38. A. -- Mississippi-River commission. 39. A. -- River and harbor improvements. 40. A. -- Survey of Great Lakes. 41 A. -- Survey of U.S. territory. 42 A. -- Willett's Point school of engineering.

Public buildings and grounds.

43. Propagating gardens, aqueducts, Washington monument, etc.

Ordnance bureau.

44. Arsenals, armories, and ordnance depots. 45. Experiments on material, powder, etc. 46. Artillery school at Fortress Monroe.

Signal-service bureau.

47. A -- School at For Myer for meteorology and signalling. 48 A. -- Weather-bureau.

NAVY DEPARTMENT.

49. U.S. naval academy at Annapolis.

Bureau of ordnance.

50. Manufacture of cannon, guns, arsenals, magazines. 51. Newport topedo station and service.

Bureau of navigation. 52. A. -- Hydrographic office (charts, surveying, meteorology).