SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 339 



Military Division 



Charles D. Walcott, Chairman 



S. W. Stratton, Vice-Chairman 

 Carl L. Alsberg Rear-Admiral Robert S. Griffin 



Admiral William S. Benson Brig. Gen. P. D. Lockridge 

 Major-Gen. W. M. Black Van H. Manning 



Howard E. Coffin Charles F. Marvin 



Major-Gen. Wm. Crozier George Otis vSmith 



Rear-Admiral Ralph Earle Major-Gen. George O. Squier 

 Walter S. Gifford Rear-Admiral David W. Taylor 



Major-Gen. W. C. Gorgas Col. Ralph H. Van Deman 



LiEUT.-CoL. Henry S. Graves Capt. Roger Welles 



Engineering Division 

 Henry M. Howe, Chairman 



Division of Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy, and Geophysics 



Robert A. Millikan, Chairman 

 Charles E. Mendenhall, Vice-Chairman 



Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology 

 John Johnston, Chairman 



Division of Geology and Geography 



J. C. Merriam, Chairman 

 Whitman Cross, Vice-Chairman 



Division of Medicine and Related Sciences 



Richard M. Pearce, Chairman 

 Robert M. Yerkes, Vice-Chairman 



Division of Agriculture, Botany, and Zoology 

 Vernon Kellogg, Chairman 



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research information committee 



The chief functions of the Washington office of the Research Infor- 

 mation Committee have been defined as follows: 



(a) To provide means of ready cooperation with the London 

 and Paris offices of the Committee bj^: 



1. Receiving, collating, and disseminating information for- 

 warded from these offices. 



2. Rendering available such evidence and documents as may 

 be collected by the National Research Council relative to re- 



