Juny 12, 1918] 
The order was promulgated to avoid confusion 
in policies, duplication of effort and to bring 
more effective results and unity of control. It 
does not affect the jurisdiction of the medical 
departments of the army and navy, or of the 
provost marshal general in the performance 
of health functions of a purely military char- 
acter, nor is it designed to prohibit investiga- 
tions by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of vo- 
cational diseases, shop sanitation and hygiene. 
Tue Department of the Interior authorizes 
publication of the following: 
We, the undersigned, who are members of the 
commission duly appointed in accordance with the 
provisions of public resolution No. 21, Sixty-fifth 
Congress, hereby certify that Mr. Garabed T. K. 
Giragossian showed us on Saturday, June 29, 1918, 
a model embodying the principles of his invention 
known as the ‘‘Garabed.’’ We found that the 
model was not in shape to run or develop power. 
The inventor admitted that he had no working 
machine and that he was merely explaining prin- 
ciples. We do not believe that his principles are 
sound, that his device is operative, or that it can 
result in the practical development or utilization of 
free energy. 
Witness our signatures at Boston, Mass., this 
29th day of June, 1918. 
James A. Moyer, director, Massachusetts State 
Board of Education. 
Edward F. Miller, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology. 
M. de Kay Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology. 
Edwin B. Wilson, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology. 
Charles L. Norton, Massachusetts Institute of 
nology. 
Tue Maryland Geological Survey, under the 
direction of the State Geologist, Edward B. 
Matthews, has issued volume ten of the gen- 
eral series which maintains the same high 
standards of material and manner of presenta- 
tion established by the late Professor Clark. 
The present volume consists of a brief life of 
Dr. Wm. Bullock Clark, state geologist, 1896- 
1917, with a tribute to his work as a state offi- 
cial and two papers of general interest on the 
geography and the water resources of Mary- 
land. The geography was written by Dr. Clark 
and represents a summary of the knowledge of 
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the geology, physiography, climate, flora, fauna, 
natural resources and manufactures, accumu- 
lated during the twenty years of Dr. Clark’s 
activity. The treatment is so arranged that 
the work will serve as a teacher’s guide in pre- 
senting the geographic features of Maryland. 
Suggestions for physiographic and geologic ex- 
cursions are given for the environs of each of 
the twenty-three county towns of the state. 
The Report on Underground Waters repre- 
sents the results of several years of cooperative 
work with the U. S. Geological Survey. It in- 
eludes complete discussion of the geological 
formations, precipitations, surface and under- 
ground waters, public water supplies, and sani- 
tary conditions for Maryland, Delaware and 
the District of Columbia. The report is well 
illustrated with diagrams and tables giving 
detailed information. 
AFTER being six. months on the way a letter 
has been received at the University of Pennsyl- 
vania Museum from William B. Van Valin, 
leader of its John Wanamaker Expedition to 
the Eskimos. The letter was written early last 
October, and must have come out by the dog- 
sled mail which the government maintains to 
Point Barrow, where it has a post. This is the 
northernmost point in Alaska, and is about 600 
miles from the North Pole, a few hundred 
miles west from Herschell Island. Van Valin 
reports that he will make his winter headquar- 
ters at Point Barrow, and has already com- 
menced gathering specimens. What is of more 
importance he has begun taking phonograph 
records of the native Eskimos, recording their 
songs and stories. He also has a moving pic- 
ture camera and is taking films of their native 
dances and occupations. He reports that there 
is enough important work on hand to occupy 
him a full year, although he had not expected 
to stay so long. The Eskimo collections on 
view at the university museum contain many 
specimens ‘already sent down by Mr. Van 
Valin. They, in connection with others se- 
cured from various sources and to a great ex- 
tent by Mr. Wanamaker’s liberality, form the 
most representative Eskimo collections to be 
found in any museum in the world. 
