October 11, 1918] 
which if successfully concluded would have 
still further restricted the use of British 
goods in many parts of the empire.” 
The scientific replanning of our distribu- 
tion of energy on which the committee so 
strongly insists would, it is calculated, effect 
a saving of no less than 50 million tons of 
coal per annum. Witnesses of high authority 
estimate the loss incurred by the nation 
through failure to take full advantage of elec- 
trical progress at quite £100,000,000 a year. 
The larger part of the report is devoted to 
a careful and detailed examination, from sec- 
tional points of view, of the position of the 
industry. Section I. deals with electricity 
generation and transmission; Section II. with 
electrical traction; Section III. with manu- . 
facturing; Section IV. with the interdepend- 
ence of manufacture and finance; and Section 
V. with imperial control of sources of elec- 
trical energy. Respecting the latter, it is sug- 
gested that, in particular, India and the self- 
governing Dominions should take stock of 
their facilities for generating electricity, 
whether from water-power, coal, oil, or other 
sources of energy, and should appreciate their 
permanent and ever-increasing importance to 
the empire. 
THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY OF THE 
COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 
Tue following members of the staff of the 
department of chemistry have gone into war 
work: 
1. In the service: 
Captain Reston Stevenson, Sanitary Corps, 
Overseas. 
Major F. E. Breithut, Chief Personnel Officer, 
Chemical Warfare Service. 
Second Lieutenant Paul Gross, Research Di- 
vision, Chemical Warfare Service. 
Captain D. L. Williams, chief of supplies, Re- 
search Division, Chemical Warfare Service. 
Second Lieutenant Martin Meyer, United 
States Army. 
Corporal Howard Adler, Chemical Warfare 
Service. 
Corporal Arthur W. Davidson, Chemical War- 
fare Service. 
Ensign Benjamin Rayved, Paymaster Divi- 
sion. 
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Private Leon J. Smolen. 
Private Nathan Rauch, Chemical Warfare 
Service. 
Private Moses Chertcoff, Chemical Warfare 
Service. 
Private F. L. Weber, Students’ Army Train- 
ing Corps. 
Private Martin Kilpatrick, Chemical Warfare 
Service. 
Private Hyman Storch, Chemical Warfare 
Service. 
Joseph L. Guinane, Chemical Warfare Service. 
Private Samuel Yachnowitz. 
Yeoman Julius Leonard. 
Yeoman Alexander Lehrman, Chemical Di- 
vision. 
2. In civilian capacity: 
Professor H. R. Moody, War Industries Board. 
Tutor B. G. Feinberg, Ordnance. 
Fellow Paul Scherer, Ordnance. 
The present staff is as follows: 
Baskerville, Charles, professor and director of the 
Chemistry Building, emeritus. 
Friedburg, L. H., associate professor of chemistry. 
Curtman, Louis J., assistant professor, chief of the 
Division of Qualitative Chemistry. 
Prager, William L., assistant professor, chief of 
the Division of Organic Chemistry. 
Curtis, Robert W., assistant professor, chief of the 
Division of Quantitative Chemistry. 
Estabrooke, William L., assistant professor, chief 
of the Division of the Evening and Summer Ses- 
sions. 
Coles, Henry T., assistant professor of industrial 
chemistry. 
Cooper, Herman C., assistant professor of physical 
chemistry. 
McCrosky, Carl R., instructor. 
LeCompte, T. R., instructor. 
Brown, Stanley F., tutor. 
Meltsner, Max, tutor. 
Babor, Joseph A., tutor. 
THE CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE 
THE Chemical Warfare Service has been 
duly authorized by order of the Secretary of 
War, to make the necessary arrangements 
through the Adjutant General’s Office to se- 
cure the furlough, without pay or allowances, 
of such chemists as are necessary in such 
government bureaus as the Bureau of Stand- 
ards, Bureau of Chemistry, Bureau of Mines, 
United States Patent Office, where such chem- 
