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professor George Bauson, ft George Davidson was born May 9th, 1825, in Nottingham, England, of Scot- tish parents, who, soon after his birth, came to this country and made their home in Philadelphia. There he received his earlier education in the grammar schools, and graduated from the Central High School in 1845. In the same year he entered the United States Coast Survey, and served in field and office work on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts until 1850, when he was directed to inaugurate the work of the Survey on the Pacific Coast. Except dur- ing the Civil War, he was engaged on this Coast from Panama to Alaska; and for twenty-seven years he was in charge of all the geodetic, astronomical, magnetic, and tidal work, and of the Sub-Office at San Francisco. In 1873 he was pro- moted to the head of the field assistants, for his administrative and executive ability; and the later results of his work on the main triangulation of the Pacific Coast were pronounced by the Superintendent unique in the history of geodesy. His connection with the Coast and Geodetic Survey was terminated after a con- tinuous service of fifty years and one month. During his official career he was given a place upon many special commissions, among them the following: Member of the Assay Commission, Phila- delphia Mint, 1871 and 1875; Examiner of the Assay, Coin, and Bullion Balances and Beams, and Coin Weights, San Francisco Mint, 1872 and 1876; Member of the Board of United States Irrigation Commissioners for the Great Valley of Califor- nia, 1873-5; Tour of Inspection of the Irrigation Works of Egypt and India, 1874-5; Member of the Advisory Board to the California State Harbor Commis- sioners, 1873-6; Member of the Mississippi River Commission, 1888-90; In charge of the Transit of Venus Expeditions, Japan, 1874, and New Mexico, 1882; Delegate to the Ninth Convention of the Association Geodesique Internationale, Paris, 1889; Bearer of the International Prototypes of the Standard Metre and Kilogram from France; and President du Jury International des Recompenses de la Classe 54, Paris Exposition, 1878. Professor Davidson ' s itinerary from 1845 to 1901 was 403,188 miles. The Government has published many of his reports upon special investigations and operations, and his total published works number one hundred and fifty-one, cov- ering in general, geodesy, astronomy, instruments of precision, engineering, geography, and navigation. He is a member of more than twenty scientific and learned societies, has served as President of the Geographical Society of the Pacific from 1881 to date, and was the first American member of the Bureau of Longitudes of France. The Institute de France, Academie des Sciences, has just appointed him Correspondent pour la Section de Geographic et Navigation, in recognition of his important scientific work. He holds the degrees of M. A. and Ph. D., to which the University of Pennsylvania in 1889 added that of Sc. D. His connection with the University of California dates from 1870, when he was made Honorary Professor of Geodesy and Astronomy. He served as an appointed Regent of the University from 1877 to 1884. In 1898 he accepted the chair of Geography in the College of Commerce, which position he still holds. The students of the University of California recognize Professor Davidson ' s ability as a scientist, and his scholarly merit of the honors he has received. To him as a scientist, therefore, but yet more than this, to him as a friend, this record of student life is dedicated. By this means we wish to express to him, as best we may, our appreciation of his long and faithful service to the Univer- sity, his interest in the welfare of its students, his generous sympathy with their needs, and the uniformly just and manly treatment which he has at all times accorded them.
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Erecting. Just a magic-lantern show, Friends, is all we offer you. The swiftly-rushing college year is fled, And fled its Junior joys; but, as it sped, Some scenes we caught, the truest, dearest, which behold Shining upon the pages of the Blue and Gold! One fleeting picture now is on the screen, But turn the page, and lo! you change the scene. The stately pageant of solemnity, The antic pranks of college jollity, The noisy mad delight of victory, And sorrow of defeat, The callow Freshman new from country school, Instructor, co-ed, hero, dig, and fool, Successively you greet; Till the last page is turned, till the last slide Has flashed its picture, and is laid aside: The show is done: And soon, as other interests appear, And year of life is added unto year, The very thought and memory of it is gone. It may be that, some day, some man whom age Has bowed, or woman snowy-haired, shall turn the page Where this is writ; A start, a thrill of pleasure at the view! The Blue and Gold of Nineteen Hundred Two! And thus the aged one shall sit, And live the well-loved scenes again; Ah! we were class-mates then! The magic lantern! magic then in truth, Which on the screen of age throws the dear scenes of youth! Gently then will criticise They who read with moistened eyes! Gently criticise, we pray, You who read our work to-day! Only pictures fixed ere flying, Only blossoms plucked ere dying, Mingled rosemary and rue, Friends, ' tis these we offer you! The Blue and Gold of Nineteen Hundred Two.
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