DECEMBER 13, 1918] 
throughout. Some of the material from Eu- 
rope, such, for example, as the complete texts 
of important treaties signed since the begin- 
ning of the war, has never been made public. 
Primarily, “ The Inquiry ” has been a fact 
study, conducted in a scientifie spirit by spe- 
cialists and scholars, both American and from 
various European countries affected by the 
war. In order to give high value to any state- 
ment of fact, the inquiry has been entirely in- 
dependent of any political hypothesis. 
“The Inquiry” has had a personnel of 
about 150 people. Among them are: 
Director, Dr. S. E. Mezes, president of the College 
of the City of New York. 
Chief Territorial Specialist, Dr. Isaiah Bowman, 
director of the American Geographical Society. 
Specialist on Economic Resources, Allyn A. Young, 
head of the department of economics at Cornell 
University. 
Charles H. Haskins, dean of the graduate school of 
Harvard University, specialist on Alsace-Lor- 
raine and Belgium. 
Clive Day, head of economies department at Yale, 
specialist on the Balkans. 
W. E. Lunt, professor of history, Haverford Col- 
lege, specialist on northern Italy. 
R. H. Lord, professor of history at Harvard, spe- 
cialist on Russia and Poland. 
_ Charles Seymour, professor of history at Yale, spe- 
cialist on Austria-Hungary. 
W. L. Westermann, professor of history at the 
University of Wisconsin, specialist on Turkey. 
G. L. Beer, formerly of Columbia University, spe- 
cialist on colonial history. 
Cartographer, Mark Jefferson, professor of geog- 
raphy, Michigan State Normal College. 
Roland B. Dixon, professor of ethnography at Har- 
vard. 
In addition there are eleven assistants and 
four commissioned officers of the Military In- 
telligence Division assigned to the inquiry for 
special problems on strategy, economics and 
ethnography. These officers are: 
Major D. W. Johnson, Columbia University. 
Major Lawrence Martin, University of Wisconsin. 
Captain W. C. Farabee, the University Museum, 
Philadelphia. 
Captain Stanley Hornbeck, author of ‘‘Contempo- 
rary Politics in the Far East.’’ 
The above named, together with map makers 
SCIENCE 
591 
and other assistants, sailed with the Peace 
Commission on the George Washington. 
Passing by the countless details, “ The In- 
quiry,” broadly, has covered the following 
fields : 
1, Political History— 
(a) Historie rights, including suffrage laws. 
(b) Religious development and customs. 
(c) Rights of minority peoples in composite 
populations; subordinate nationalities. 
2. Diplomatic History— 
(a) Recent political history related to diplo- 
macy, treaties, ete. 
(b) Public law, constitutional reforms, ete. 
3. International Law— 
(a) To lay the groundwork toward bringing 
the subject up to date. : 
(b) Study of treaty texts since the beginning 
of the war. 
(ce) Geographical interpretation of problems 
of territorial waters, frontiers, ete. 
4, Economics— 
(a) International: raw materials, coaling sta- 
tions, cable stations, port works, tariffs 
and customs unions, free ports, open 
ports. 
(b) Regional: industrial development, self 
sufficiency, traffic routes in relation to 
boundaries and material resources, in- 
cluding food, minerals, water power, 
fuel, ete. 
5. Geography— 
(a) Economie geography. 
(b) Political geography. 
6. Physiography— 
(a) Strategic frontiers. 
(b) Topographic barriers. 
7. Cartography—Maps to illustrate every kind of 
distribution that bears on peace problems, 
such as: (a) Peoples, (b) Minerals, (c) His- 
torical limits, (d@) Railways and trade routes, 
(e) Crops and livestock, (f) Cities and indus- 
trial centers, (g) Religions. 
8. Education— 
(a) Status in colonial passessions. 
(b) In backward states. 
(c) Opportunities of oppressed minorities. 
9. Irrigation— 
(a) Present development. 
(b) Possibilities in general reconstruction. 
In its latest stages “ The Inquiry” had its 
work centered on territorial matters, so that 
all the specialists going abroad are territorial 
specialists, except the direct representatives of 
