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mitted to the information office; (4) that all Government agencies be 

 instructed to comply with requests for data from the Board; (5) that 

 surveys by agencies other than the Geological Survey be made to 

 conform to the specifications of the standard topographic map; (6) 

 that the Coast and Geodetic Survey be given general supervision of 

 the final adjustment of all important control data; (7) that maps be 

 issued as soon as possible after the field work has been completed; 

 and (8) that the program of the Interdepartmental Committee on 

 Aerial Surv^eying be approved. 



It is estimated that the work of primary control can be completed 

 by 1933 at a cost of $6,305,000, and that the topographic map can be 

 completed within the same period for $40,490,000 (including coopera- 

 tive appropriations by States). 



NOTES 



Mr. C. H. BiRDSEYE has been appointed Chief Topographic Engineer 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey, to succeed Mr. R. B. MarshaIvL, who 

 recently resigned as Chief Geographer. Mr. Birdseye was formerly 

 chief of one of the divisions of topographic mapping and during the 

 War served in France as Lieutenant Colonel of the Coast Artillery. 

 Mr. Marshall will remain a member of the Survey, being enrolled as a 

 topographic engineer on a per diem status, and will thus be available 

 for occasional service. 



Prof. M. A. CarlETon has resigned his position as cerealist with the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, and is now engaged in special field 

 investigations for the U. S. Grain Corporation, with headquarters at 

 42 Broadway, New York City. 



Dr. Henry A. Christian, Dean of the Harvard Medical School, 

 came to Washington on November i as chairman of the Division of 

 Medical Sciences of the National Research Council. 



Mr. D. Dale Condit has resigned from the Geological Survey, and 

 Mr. Ralph W. Howell is on a year's leave of absence, to accept posi- 

 tions as petroleum geologists with Pearson and Sons. They sailed 

 for England about the middle of October. 



Mr. R. W. Frey, formerly with the leather and paper laboratory of 

 the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, has re- 

 signed to accept a position in the chemical department of John H. 

 Heald & Co., Inc., manufacturers of tanning and dye-wood extracts 

 at Lynchburg, Va. 



Dr. Albert Mann has resigned from the Department of Agriculture 

 to accept an appointment as Research Associate of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington. The change was made so as to enable him to 

 give his entire time to his work on the diatoms. He will have his office 

 and laboratory at the National Museum. 



