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strength and resources of the Chicago tech- 
nical societies for war work as need may arise. 
The following member societies are cooper- 
ating in the new war committee: 
Western Society of Engineers. 
Structural Engineers’ Association of Illinois. 
Society of Industrial Engineers. 
Illinois Society of Engineers. 
Illinois Society of Architects. 
The American Railway Engineering Association. 
The Swedish Hngineers’ Society of Chicago. 
Illinois Chapter, American Institute of Archi- 
tects. 
Chicago Section, American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers. 
Chieago Section, American Institute of Electrical 
Engineers. 
Chicago Section, American Chemical Society. 
Chicago Section, American Institute of Mining 
Engineers. 
Mid-West Section, Society of Automotive Hngi- 
neers. 
Illinois Association of American Society of Civil 
Engineers. 
Chicago Section, American Society of Heating 
and Ventilating Engineers. 
Chicago Section, American Society of Refriger- 
ating Engineers. 
Chicago Section, Steel Treating Research Society. 
Chicago Section, Illuminating Engineering So- 
ciety. 
Chicago Chapter, American Association of Engi- 
neers. 
Officers of the war committee have been elected 
as follows: 
Chairman, F. K. Copeland. 
Vice-chairman, W. L. Abbott. 
Secretary, Edgar 8. Nethercut. 
Treasurer, William A. Fox. 
The executive committee consists of F. K. 
Copeland, W. L. Abbott, William Hoskins, C. 
A. Keller, Charles E. Lord, C. F. Loweth, 
Isham Randolph and Richard E. Schmidt. 
The address of the secretary of the war com- 
mittee is 1735 Monadnock Block, Chicago. 
ENGINEER OFFICERS’ TRAINING SCHOOL AT 
CAMP HUMPHREYS 
Tue War Department authorizes the follow- 
ing statement from the Engineer Corps: 
The Chief of Engineers, General William 
M. Black, announces that the Engineering 
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Officers’ Training Camp, scheduled to open 
about August 1, will be situated at Camp 
Humphreys, 17 miles south of Washington, on 
a plateau overlooking the Potomac River. 
Two thousand candidates for commissions as ~ 
captains and first lieutenants will be trained 
under the same facilities provided for the 
17,000 Engineer replacement troops now there 
preparing for over-seas service. These facili- 
ties include the ordinary military arrange- 
ments, and in addition some 15 special schools 
to instruct men on such operations as mining, 
quarrying, gas and flame defense, barbed-wire 
fortification, water supply and railroad com- 
munication. 
The candidates for commission will become 
familiar with the work of all these schools and 
conclude their training with a course in sapper 
work, in order that they may be fitted to com- 
mand sapper troops if necessary. Many of the 
candidates will come from civil life, a cam- 
paign being under way to interest men of tech- 
nical training and experience. 
Many applications for entrance to the train- 
ing camp have been received. To examine 
these candidates, General Black has desig- 
nated a traveling board, which will visit sey- 
eral of the larger cities and determine the 
physical and mental fitness of the applicants. 
This board will be headed by Major E. H. 
Williams, who will advise the candidates as to 
the dates on which they should appear in the 
cities to be visited for examination. Candi- 
dates for first lieutenantcies should be between 
32 and 36 years old, and those for captaincies 
between 36 and 42. Traveling expenses to the 
camp will be allowed successful candidates. 
Those accepted before August 1 will be sent 
to the existing engineers officers’ training 
camp at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Tue Geological Society of America will hold 
its next annual meeting at Johns Hopkins 
University, Baltimore, Maryland, during con- 
vocation week of next winter. The program 
to be presented will concern itself particularly 
with the relations of geology to the World 
War. 
