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accepted a call to come to Washington and become chairman of a com- 

 mittee of the division to prepare outlines of Students Army Training 

 Corps courses in military geolog}^, geography, map-reading, and meteor- 

 ology, for the consideration of the Military Committee. After many 

 conferences with teachers of these subjects in colleges and universities, 

 courses in these subjects were formulated and received the approval of the 

 Military Committee. Unfortunately, through some misunderstanding, in 

 the stress of issuing instructions by the Military Committee, the courses 

 in these subjects we are considering were omitted from the curriculum 

 first issued. This was subsequently corrected by supplemental instructions. 



The evident need for text books in the courses in question was supplied 

 under the direction of Professor Gregory, with the eifective assistance of 

 many collaborators, so that in a very short time volumes entitled : ^'Military 

 Geology and Topography,'^ "Introductory Meteorology," and a "Syllabus 

 on the Geography of Europe" were prepared for publication. Their issue 

 was delayed, through no fault of the committee or publisher, by strikes 

 and ravages of the influenza epidemic. To Professor Gregor}^, as editor of 

 this series of text books, great credit is due for both plan and execution. 



Although the Students Army Training Corps has now been abandoned, 

 the energy and interest put into the preparation of these text books and 

 the courses in which they were to be used will surely not be wasted. This 

 war of the sciences has placed some of them in a new light, and no science, 

 perhaps least of all geology, will in future be regarded or taught entirely 

 from the limited viewpoint of the past. These text books and recom- 

 mended courses have ideas certain of development in years to come. 



The interest of the Division of Geology and Geography did not end 

 with the preparation of the text books. The need for maps and lantern 

 slides in effective presentation of the Students Army Training Corps 

 courses referred to and of several others was at once apparent. Maps es- 

 pecially were needed and requests for maps or information concerning 

 them poured into the Military Committee, the Geological Survey, the 

 National Eesearch Council, and other agencies. The Division of Geology 

 and Geography was instrumental in securing a conference of representa- 

 tives from the Military Committee on Education and Special Training, 

 the Military Intelligence Division (which could supply foreign maps), 

 the Geological Survey (a source for domestic maps^, the War Aims Com- 

 mittee, and the Eesearch Council. As a result a committee under the 

 chairmanship of P. S. Smith took up the matter, considered what maps 

 were necessary, where they could be obtained and under what conditions 

 they could be supplied, and made a report to the Military Committee just 

 before the end of the war, and no action was taken. Professor Davis ren- 



