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sum has been pledged for a number of years to come and should 

 enable the instruction in this branch to be made very much more 

 effective than has been possible heretofore. 



Professor Ward gave his usual meteorological courses. In 

 May, at the request of President Maclaurin, he was assigned to 

 the teaching staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 and has since then, under the direction of the War Department, 

 given regular instruction in meteorology in the United States 

 Army School of Military Aeronautics at the Institute. By direc- 

 tion of the Chief Signal Officer, Professor Ward has prepared an 

 outline of his lectures on meteorology in relation to aviation, to 

 serve as a text in all the Schools of Military Aeronautics. As 

 President of the Association of American Geographers, Professor 

 Ward devoted considerable time to the affairs of that organiza- 

 tion. He is also a member of the Geography Committee of the 

 National Research Council. During March, as visiting Lecturer 

 in the Department of Geography of the University of Wisconsin, 

 he gave a course on climatological subjects. Special attention has 

 been paid to the effects of weather conditions upon military opera- 

 tions in the War, and several papers have been published on this 

 subject. Professor Ward has also prepared a second edition of 

 his "Climate" which is now in press. 



