Juny 19, 1918] 
concerning me in the Weather Bureau files on this 
matter, I must ask to register herewith, in the same 
files, my indignant denial of any friendly feeling 
toward or sympathy for the imperial German goy- 
ernment and my abhorrence of its official acts. I 
also repudiate indignantly the suggestion that I 
have, or could have, anything in common with what 
is now currently known as ‘‘Germanism.’’ 
It should not be necessary, but I once again do 
protest my sincere, genuine and undivided loyalty 
to the United States and to its government, its 
ideals, and particularly its published objects in this 
war. The most searching inquiry of my own acts 
and feelings fails to reveal to me any deficiency in 
this respect. It is well known to you that I have 
subscribed to the extent of my ability to the second 
and third liberty loans, to the Red Cross and its 
work, and to other activities. 
You are, yourself, convinced of the truth of my 
statements, and, as you do not wish to see an un- 
just disgrace laid upon the name I bear, I believe 
you will aid my efforts to secure the common jus- 
tice of an opportunity to learn from the Secretary 
of Agriculture the charges collected against me 
and to answer them fully in his presence. 
GROVE KARL GILBERT 
In the Journal of Geology Professor Thomas 
C. Chamberlin pays the following editorial 
tribute to the late Dr. Gilbert: 
The passing of Dr. Gilbert after almost sey- 
enty-five years of activity deprives geological sci- 
ence of one of its ablest and most honored repre- 
sentatives. It is permitted to few men to leave an 
equally enviable record. To an unusual degree 
his work was distinguished by keenness of obser- 
vation, by depth of penetration, by soundness in 
induction, and by clarity of exposition. It is 
doubtful whether the products of any other geolo- 
gist of our day will escape revision at the hands 
of future research to a degree equal to the writ- 
ings of Grove Karl Gilbert. And yet this is not 
assignable to limitation of field, or to simplicity of 
phenomena, or to restriction in treatment. The 
range of his inquiries was wide, his special subjects 
often embraced intricate phenomena, while his 
method was acutely analytical and his treatment 
tended always to bring into declared form the basal 
principles that underlay the phenomena in hand. 
In the literature of our science the laccolith will 
doubtless always be associated with the name of 
Gilbert. In its distinctness as a type, in its unique- 
ness of character, and in the definite place it was 
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given at once by common consent, one may almost 
faney a figurative resemblance between the lac- 
colith and its discoverer and expositor. Gilbert’s 
monographs on the Henry Mountains and on Lake 
Bonneville will long stand as unexcelled models of 
monographiec treatment. His contributions to 
physiographic evolution, particularly his analysis of 
the processes that end in base-leveling, link his 
name with that of Powell, and give to these two 
close friends a unique place as joint leaders in in- 
terpreting morphologic processes. Glacial and hy- 
draulie phenomena were also fields in which Gil- 
bert’s powers as an investigator and expositor were 
signally displayed. 
In accuracy of delineation, in clearness of state- 
ment, and in grace of diction Gilbert’s contribu- 
tions are certain long to stand as models of the first 
order. His personality was of the noblest type; 
he was a charming companion in the field; he was 
a trusted counselor in the study. The high place 
he has held in the esteem of coworkers is quite cer- 
tain to merge into an even higher permanent place 
to be accorded him by the mature judgment of the 
future. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
THe annual convocation meeting of the 
American Federation of Biological Societies 
will be held this year in Baltimore. The date 
of the meeting is from December 30 to Jan- 
uary 1 inclusive. The federation includes the 
following national societies: The American 
Physiological Society, the American Society 
of Biological Chemists, The American Society 
for Pharmacology and Experimental Thera- 
peutics, and the American Society for Ex- 
perimental Pathology. 
Dr. J. M. T. Foyney and Dr. William S. 
Thayer, chief consultants of the Medical Serv- 
ice of the American Expeditionary Forces, 
have received “promotions advancing their 
rank from major to colonel. The following 
named officers have been promoted from major 
to lieutenant-colonel: Thomas R. Boggs, 
James T. Case, George W. Crile, Harvey Cush- 
ing, Joel W. Goldthwait, James F. McKernon, 
Charles H. Peck, Thomas A. Salmon, Hugh 
H. Young, N. Allison and E. L. Keyes. 
Caprain JosepH Lewy, who has been in- 
structor in gas defense and divisional gas 
officer of the 30th Division, Camp Sevier, 
