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the State Department. Part of the force in 
international law are already in Europe, in- 
eluding David H. Miller, chairman of the law 
committee of the State Department. 
Every important nationality of Europe and 
western Asia has had representatives here for 
conference with “The Inquiry.” Authorities 
native to the affected countries in Kurope have 
lent their aid and have placed at the disposal 
of the “Inquiry” all sources of information 
in their native languages. These, together 
with numerous secret documents and much in- 
formation hitherto unavailable to scholars, has 
resulted in a bibliographic collection alto- 
gether unique and valuable. It will become 
part of the records of the State Department. 
The cartographic force of the American 
Geographical Society, greatly augmented by 
government aid, began a map-making program 
hitherto without precedent in this country, all 
work being carefully drawn from the latest 
and best sources. Maps have been made to 
visualize not only all manner of territorial 
boundaries, but distribution of peoples, num- 
ber and local densities of population, religions, 
economic activities, distribution of material 
resources, trade routes, both historic and po- 
tential strategic points. 
A series of base maps and block diagrams, 
the most nearly complete series existing, has 
been prepared by the American Geographical 
Society, bearing upon all the geographical 
problems both of the war and the peace which 
is to follow. This series has been adopted by 
the War Department and prescribed by its 
Committee on Education and Special Train- 
ing for use in all colleges and other centers 
where units of the Students’ Army Training 
Corps are located, and for use by chairmen 
of the War Issues Course Groups. Many of 
these base maps and block diagrams have al- 
ready been procured by colleges and univer- 
sities. 
Upon these base maps the Peace Commis- 
sioners, or others, by use of colored lines, may 
immediately have a map showing new state 
lines, ethnic boundaries, a rectified frontier, or 
a distribution of any sort, and at the signing ~ 
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of the treaty of peace, a complete record of 
the new map of Europe. 
All information gathered by “ The Inquiry ” 
has been so carefully classified, indexed and 
subdivided that it will be instantly available. 
The library for the commissioners will also 
include hundreds of maps and books from the 
American Geographical Society, from Har- 
vard, Princeton, Haverford College, the Li- 
brary of Congress and the New York Public 
Library. These, with the data gathered by 
the inquiry have been constantly under guard. 
The American Geographical Society will 
prepare, under the supervision of its director, 
Dr. Isaiah Bowman, a complete history of the 
work of “The Inquiry.” <A history of it will 
also be prepared for the History Board of the 
War Plans Division of the General Staff of 
the War Department. 
President Wilson visited the headquarters 
of “The Inquiry ” on October 12, on which 
occasion he registered his name on the wall in 
the office of the director of the American Geo- 
graphical Society. Immediately under it are 
the names of Secretary Lansing, who visited 
the “Inquiry” on two occasions, and of Col- 
onel House. 
During the year there were .a large number 
of other distinguished visitors, including Sec- 
retary Houston, Governor McCall and Major 
Requin, for a time General Foch’s Chief of 
Staff. The last-named, at the time of his 
visit, constructed a blackboard sketch of the 
first battle of the Marne, and this, now care- 
fully preserved, has great historical interest. 
SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 
THE SALTERS’ INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL 
CHEMISTRY! 
THE Salters’ Company has during many 
years given evidence of its interest in the pro- 
motion of scientific education and research by 
the provision of fellowships tenable by post- 
graduate workers. It has now taken a further 
very important step in announcing a scheme 
for the establishment of an institute to be 
called “The Salters’ Institute of Industrial 
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