430 



SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XL VI. No. 1192 



Artliur J. Ela, Ray L. Sohoppe, 



Arthur Joacliinis, Conrad T. Bussell, 



Harold A. Cotton, Leroy P. Eaynor, 



Alfred L. Giacomini, Gardiner Luce, 



George C. Mattison, Lyman D. Graham, 



Fritz C. Nyland, Stanley T. Barker, 



Eustace S. Walker, Leo C. WUder, 



Harrison R. Bartlett, Paul V. Lane, 



WiUiam V. Hagar, WUmer O. Hinkley, 



Kenneth T. Adams, George H. Durgin, 



Raymond V. Miller, Charles K. Green, 



Prederie L. Peacock, George L. Bean. 



Also there shall be transferred to the service and 

 jurisdiction of the War Department, and I do 

 hereby appoint and direct that they be commis- 

 sioned and ordered to active duty as of date of 

 this order, in the OflS-cer's Reserve Corps in the 

 grades set opposite their names, the following 

 named persons now part of the commissioned per- 

 sonnel of the Coast and Geodetic Survey: 

 John T. Watkins, captain, XJ. S. E., 

 Carey V. Hodgson, captain, U. S. E., 

 John H. Peters, captain, U. S. R., 

 John D. Powell, first lieutenant, TJ. S. R., 

 Isaiah M. Dailey, first lieutenant, XJ. S. R., 

 Otis W. Swainson, first Ueuteuant, TJ. S. E., 

 George D. Cowie, first lieutenant, TJ. S. E., 

 Ernest E. Eeese, first lieutenant, XJ. S. E., 

 Prank S. Borden, first lieutenant, XJ. S. E., 

 Mas Steinberg, first lieutenant, XJ. S. E., 

 Harry T. Kelsh, Jr., first lieutenant, XJ. S. E., 

 Ernest W. Eickelberg, first lieutenant, XJ. S. E. 

 Arthur S. Hallberg, first lieutenant, XJ. S. R., 

 WiUiam H. Clark, first lieutenant, XJ. S. R., 

 Bert C. Ereeman, first lieutenant, XJ. S. R., 

 Raymond A. Wheeler, second lieutenant, XJ. S. E., 

 Andrew C. Witherspoon, second lieutenant, XJ. 

 S. E., 



Herbert E. Grmnmann, second lieutenant, XJ. 

 S. E., 



Roland K. Bennett, second lieutenant, XJ. S. R., 

 Max O. Witherbee, second lieutenant, XJ. S. E., 

 Payson A. Perrin, second lieutenant, XJ. S. R., 

 Aaron L. Shalowitz, second lieutenant, XJ. S. E., 

 Eoland D. Home, second lieutenant, XJ. S. E., 

 Eobert J. Hole, second lieutenant, XJ. S. E., 

 Erederiek E. Joekel, second lieutenant, XJ. S, E., 

 HaiTold W. Pease, second lieutenant, XJ. S. E., 

 Benjamin Galos, second lieutenant, XJ. S. E., 

 John W. Cox, second lieutenant, XJ. S. E., 

 George E. Hartley, second lieutenant, XJ. S. E., 



Also there shall be transferred to the service and 

 jurisdiction of the War Department, and I do 

 hereby appoint and direct that they be commis- 

 sioned and ordered to active duty as of date of 

 this order in the Officer's Reserve Corps in the 



grades set opposite their names, the following 

 named persona now part of the personnel of the 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey: 



Edmund P. EUis, captain, XJ. S. R., 

 James W. McGuire, captain, XJ. S. R., 

 Earl P. Church, first lieutenant, XJ. S. R., 

 Oscar S. Adams, first lieutenant, XJ. S. R., 

 Percy B. Castles, first lieutenant, XJ. S. R., 

 Charles A. Mourhess, first lieutenant, XJ. S. R., 

 Walter D. Lambert, first lieutenant, XT. S. R., 

 Walter N. MeParland, second lieutenant, XJ. 

 S. R., 



S. L. Rosenberg, second lieutenant, XJ. S. R., 

 H. S. Eappleye, second lieutenant, XJ. S. E. 

 The War and Navy Departments shall return to 

 the service and jurisdiction of the Department of 

 Commerce any or aU of the material or personnel 

 of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 transferred by this order when directed by me so 

 to do. WooDRow Wilson 



The White House, 

 24 September, 1917 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Plans are under way for the Pittsburgh 

 meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science from December 28 

 to January 2. The Carnegie Institute, the 

 Carneg'ie Institute of Technology and the 

 University of Pittsburgh are uniting in pre- 

 paring to entertain the association. Dr. W. 

 J. Holland, director of the Carnegie Museum, 

 is chairman of the committee on arrange- 

 ments, and S. B. Linhart, secretary of the 

 University of Pittsburgh, is secretary of the 

 committee. Secretaries of afiiliated societies 

 and of other organizations meeting at this 

 time are requested to send to the secretary as 

 soon as possible the approximate number of 

 members of each organization who expect to 

 attend; the time for which meetings are to 

 be arranged; also any social functions which 

 will be included in their plans; and also 

 whether lantern or moving picture equipment 

 wiU be required for any of these meetings. 

 Information in regard to entertainment, hotel 

 rates, etc., can be secured from the secretary. 



The Bell Memorial, erected in honor of 

 Alexander Graham Bell and his invention in 

 1874, of the telephone, was unveiled on Oc- 

 tober 21, at Brantford, by the Duke of Devon- 



