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points, and thus presen^practical lessons in map interpretation and read- 

 ing. These texts have been in part arranged for in cooperation with the 

 subcommittee. 



Pamphlets on the geography, geology, etcetera, of several camps have 

 been prepared, at the suggestion of the subcommittee, by State geolog- 

 ical surveys. The following have been published: 



The Country about Camp Lee, Virginia, by Albert W. Giles, Bulletin 

 of the Geological Survey of Virginia. 



The Environment of Camp Grant, by E. D. Salisbury and H. H. Bar- 

 rows, Bulletin 39 of the Geological Survey of Illinois. 



A Description of the Eegion about Camp Dodge, bv James H. Lees, 

 Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Iowa. 



The Environment of Camp Funston, by Eaymond C. Moorfe, Bulletin 4, 

 Geological Survey of Kansas. 



The matter of securing adequate instruction in officers' training camps 

 in geology, geography, topography, map-reading, and kindred subjects 

 was given a definite direction in the latter part of 1917 by the organization 

 in the War Department of the Militar}- Committee on Education and 

 Special Training, with a board of civilian advisers, to which was given 

 power to control all courses in training camps and schools. The intro- 

 duction of new technical courses into an already crowded curriculum, was 

 a matter of practicability, controlled largely by the opinion of the mili- 

 tary authorities as to the relative importance of such new instruction. 

 So long as geology was slightly recognized at the front, the geological 

 instruction of officers in training camps was hardly to be expected. 



In June C. P. Berkey was made chairman of a special committee of the 

 division to study once more the feasibilit}" of introducing some instruc- 

 tion in geology and geography into officers' training courses, and, if found 

 practicable, to formulate a plan for such work. After careful examination 

 of the situation a report wdth recommendations was transmitted to As- 

 sistant Secretary of War Keppel. It was very favorably received and 

 would doubtless have been acted on by the Military Committee had not 

 the Students Army Training Corps plan matured at that time, making 

 that course the natural place in which to concentrate efforts for the in- 

 struction in mind. 



As chairman of the Eesearch Council Committee on Eelations with 

 Educational Institutions, Dr. Merriam was early brought into conference 

 with the Military Committee on Education and Special Training, and as 

 the project for the Students Army Training Corps courses developed the 

 Military Committee cordially welcomed suggestions from the Eesearch 

 Council in regard to all scientific courses. At this point H. E. Gregory 



