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historical interest, among them being the electromagnet and galvanometer 
used by Joseph Henry and the original telephone used by Alexander 
Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson. The lecture was also illustrated 
by talking motion pictures. 
On February 9, an exhibit of apparatus and motion pictures telling 
the story of the historical development of wireless telegraphy and telephony 
was opened to the public in the exhibit room of the Council in Washington. 
This exhibit was prepared and installed by the American Telephone and 
Telegraph Company and the Western Electric Company, Incorporated, 
in cooperation with the U. S. Signal Corps and Air Service. 
DIVISION AND COMMITTISE) APPOINTME^NTS 
Government Division. — Vice-Chairman, Carl L. Alsberg, Chief, Bureau 
of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture; Executive Committee, Chairman, 
Charles D. Walcott, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, Vice-Chairman, 
Carl L. Alsberg, Secretary, R. M. Yerkes, National Research Council, 
Col. Colden L'H. Ruggles, Ordnance Department, U. S. A., Rear Admiral 
Ralph Earle, Bureau of Ordnance, U. S. N., S. W. Stratton, Chief, U. S 
Bureau of Standards, and George Otis Smith, U. S. Geological Survey. 
Representatives of the Departments of the Government. — Department of 
State: Julius G. Lay, Acting Foreign Trade Advisor. 
Department of Treasury: Assistant Surgeon General J. W. Scheres- 
chewsky, Public Health Service. 
Department of War: Maj. General William L. Sibert, Chemical War- 
fare Service, Maj. General George O. Squier, Signal Corps, Brig. General 
Marlborough Churchill, Military Intelligence Division, Col. Colden 
L'H. Ruggles, Ordnance Department, Col. Frederick F. Russell, Medical 
Corps, Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, Corps of Engineers, Lieut. Col. Robert 
E. Callan, Coast Artillery, Lieut. Col. Byron Q. Jones, Air Service, Major 
William M. Fassett, General Staff. 
Department of Justice: John T. Creighton, Bureau of Investigation. 
Post Office Department: John T. Miller, Chief of the Division of Corre- 
spondence. 
Department of the Navy: Rear Admiral A. P. Niblack, Office of Naval 
Intelligence of Office of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral J. A. Hooge- 
werff, Bureau of Navigation, Rear Admiral D. W. Taylor, Bureau of 
Construction and Repair, Rear Admiral R. S. Griffin, Bureau of Steam 
Engineering, Rear Admiral W. C. Braisted, Medical Corps, Bureau of 
Medicine and Surgery, Rear Admiral C. W. Parks, Bureau of Yards and 
Docks. 
Department of the Interior: M. H. Coulston, Assistant Commissioner 
of Patents, S. P. Capen, Specialist in Higher Education, Bureau of Educa- 
tion, George Otis Smith, Director, U. S. Geological Survey, A. P. Davis^ 
