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C. HART .MERRIAM, Chiefof the Biological Survey, 

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DAVID J. HILL, Assistant Secretary of State. 



CHARLES H. ALLEN, Assistant Secretary- of the 

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WILLIS L. MOORE, Chiefof the U. S.Weather Bureau. 



H. S. PRITCHETT, Superintendent of the U. S. Coast 

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MARCUS BAKER, U. S. Geological Survey. 



O. P. AUSTIN, Chiefof the Bureau of Statistics, U. S. 



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 ELIZA RUHAMAH SCIDMORE, author of "Java, 



the G.irden of the East," etc. 

 CARL LOUISE GARRISON, Principal of the Phelps 



School, Washington, D. C. 



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