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dent Army Training Corps at educational institutions is going to have upon 
this work. There seems to be some danger that in many cases the time of the 
chemists at the universities is going to be entirely taken up with instructional 
work, and that they will have no time to devote to research on war problems. 
It is hoped that in this case it will be possible to make use to an increasing 
extent of the research laboratories of industrial organizations with such 
laboratories. One of the war problems received from Chemical Warfare 
Service and assigned to the Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry at 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been progressing very satis- 
factorily and promises to be of very great value to the work of the Chemical 
Warfare Service. It may be stated that this problem has been attacked pre- 
viously by other agencies but without success. 
The Division is reorganizing its system of sub-committees on the following 
basis : Sub-committees which have been active and are doing important work 
in connection with the war will be retained and reorganized as special com- 
mittees for certain lines of work. Other sub-committees will be discharged 
and replaced by a list of special consultants made up in most cases of the 
chairmen of former sub-committees. 
At the request of the United States Fuel Administration, the Committee 
on Ceramic Chemistry has prepared a synopsis of a course in Chemistry of 
Combustion and Fuel Engineering for distribution to educational institutions. 
Up to the present time some thirty requests have been received for this synop- 
sis. The synopsis was prepared by Mr. A. V. Bleininger of the Ceramics 
Committee and Prof. R. K. Hursch of the University of Illinois. 
Division of Geology and Geography. — The work of the Division was under the 
direction of Mr. H. E. Gregory, Acting Chairman, for the first half of the 
month and under that of the Vice Chairman for the latter half. The duties of 
Acting Chairman of the Council having fallen on the Chairman of the Division, 
he requested the Vice Chairman to take charge of the work of the Division 
for the present. The principal work of the Division during September has 
been as follows : 
1. The three textbooks for use in the S. A. T. C. courses in colleges and 
universities which have been prepared under the auspices of the Division 
(Military Geology and Topography, Introductory Meteorology and the syllabus 
on the Geography of Europe) have been completed and are now in course of 
publication by the Yale University Press. The completion of the manuscript 
and the reading of proof, etc., has taken a large amount of time. 
2. Outlines of the courses in which these textbooks may be used have 
been presented to and approved by the Military Committee of the War De- 
partment on Education and Special Training. Many conferences have been 
held by the Chairman and Acting Chairman of the Division with the Military 
Committee in regard to the courses in geology, geography and topography. 
3. Many conferences have been held and a large amount of correspondence 
