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sisted in the appointment of Advisory Committees. Eighteen such 

 Committees were appointed as follows : 



Anthf vpo/ogy : 



William H. Holtnes. Chief, Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 and Head Curator, Department of Anthropology, U. S. 

 National Museum, Washington, D, C, Cliairwan. 



Franz Boas, Curator, Department of Anthropology, Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y. 



George A. Dorsey, Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, 111. 

 Astronomy: 



E. C. Pickering, Professor of Astronomj^ and Director of 

 Harvard Observatorj^ Cambridge, Mass., Chairman. 



Lewis Boss, Director of Dudley Observatory, Alban}-, N. Y. 



George E. Hale, Director of Yerkes Observatory, Williams 

 Bay, Wis. 



S. P. Langley, Secretary Smithsonian Institution, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Simon Newcomb, late Suj)erintendent of Nautical Almanac, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Bibliograph y: 



Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C, 

 Chairman. 



Cyrus Adler, Librarian, Smithsonian Institution, Washing- 

 ton, D, C. 



T. S. Billings, Director New York Public Library, Nevv' York, 

 N. Y. 



Botany: 



Frederick V. Coville, Botanist, Department of Agriculture, 



Washington, D. C, Chairman. 

 N. L. Britton, Superintendent, New York Botanical Garden, 



New York, N. Y. 

 John M. Macfarlane, Professor of Botany, University of 



Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Gilford Pinchot, Forester, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Washington, D. C. 



Chemistry : 



Ira Remsen, Professor of Chemistry and President of Johns 



Hopkins L^niversity, Baltimore, Md., Chairman. 

 T. W. Richards, Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



