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MA J. QEN. A. Vr. aRBBI.7 



U. S. Army 



W J McO-EII 



Director Public Museum, St Louis 



C. HART MERRIAM 



Chief of the Biological Survey, U. S> 

 Department of Agriculture 



WILLIS L. MOORIl 



Chief of the Weather Bureau, U. 8. 

 Department of Agricultura 



O. H. TITTMANN 



Superintendent of the U. S. Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey 



O. P. AUSTIN 



Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, 

 Department of Commerce and 

 Labor 



DATID a. FAIRCHILD 



Agricultural Explorer of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture 



ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL 

 Washington, D. C. 



DAVID T. DAY 



Chief of the Dirision of Mineral 

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ANOELO HBILPRIN 



Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- 

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R. D. SALISBURY 



University of Chicago 



O. K. GILBERT 



U. S. Geological Survey 



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Professor of Meteorology, U. S. 

 Weather Bureau, San Francisco 



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