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president of the University (in 1903). He was associated also with the 

 Wisconsin Geological Survey and the U. S. Geological Survey. His 

 publications, which include several monographs of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, were concerned chiefly with metamorphism, ore deposits, 

 structural and Pre-Cambrian geology, and, latterly, conservation and 

 economics. He was a member of the Geological Society of Washing- 

 ton, the National Academy of Sciences, and many American and 

 European scientific societies. 



Dr. Edward Haslam Walters, formerly a biochemist in the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, died in France of 

 bronchial pneumonia on September 25, 1918. Dr. Walters was born 

 December 12, 1891, graduated from the Utah Agricultural College and 

 the University of California, and entered the Bureau of Chemistry in 

 1910. He was transferred to the Office of Soil Fertility Investigations, 

 now a part of the Bureau of Plant Industry, in 1913. In December 

 1917 he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps, 

 N. A., and was assigned to the Central Medical Department Labora- 

 tory of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He was the 

 author of several papers on the isolation of certain organic compounds 

 in soils. He was a member of the Chemical Society. 



