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Losses; T. R. Agg, Iowa State College, to be Chairman of the Committee 
on Economic Theory of Highway Improvement; A. N. Goldbeck, Engi- 
neer of Tests, Bureau of Public Roads, to be Chairman of the Committee 
on Structural Design of Roads; H. S. Mattimore, Engineer of Tests, 
Pennsylvania State Highway Department, to be Chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Tests and Properties of Road Materials and their Combinations; 
J. V. Emmons, Cleveland Twist Drill Company, R. P. Devries, Lublum 
Steel Company, E. L. French, Crucible Steel Company of America, Henry 
M. Howe, Bedford Hills, New York, C. M. Johnson, Crucible Steel Com- 
pany of America, Frank Lounsberry, Atlas Crucible Steel Company, 
A. F. MacFarland, Vanadium Alloys Company, J. A. Mathews, Crucible 
Steel Company of America, and Howard Scott, Bureau of Standards, 
to be members of the Committee on High Speed Steels. 
Division of Biology and Agriculture. — A Committee on Eugenics to make 
arrangements for the International Eugenics Congress in New York in 
1921 has been appointed, composed of the following members: L. F. 
Barker, Johns Hopkins Hospital, representing Medicine, E. A. Hooton, 
Peabody Museum, Cambridge, representing Anthropology, R. M. Yerkes, 
National Research Council, representing Psychology, Stewart Paton, 
Princeton University, representing Psychiatry, Raymond Pearl, School 
of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, representing 
Eugenics and Biometry, and Alexander G. Bell, Washington. 
Committees on Cooperation have been appointed by the following 
Societies to cooperate with the Division of Biology and Agriculture and to 
represent the Societies in the Division in the same manner as the present 
Forestry Committee : American Society of Naturalists, American Society 
of Agronomy, American Society of Zoologists, and Botanical Society of 
America. 
Division of Geology and Geography. — ^Additions to the Committee on 
Sedimentation have been made as follows: G. D. Louderback, University 
of California, H. E. Merwin, Geophysical Laboratory, W. H. Twenhofel, 
University of Wisconsin, representing the Association of State Geologists, 
and J. A. Udden, Director, Bureau of Economic Geology and Technology, 
University of Texas. 
Division of Physical Sciences. — Dr. Augustus Trowbridge, Professor of 
Physics, Princeton University, has been made Vice-Chairman of the 
Division of Physical Sciences. 
The following have been appointed as members of the American Geo- 
physical Union: D. L. Hazard, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, J. A. 
Fleming, Department of Research in Terrestrial Magnetism, S. J. Mauchly, 
Department of Research in Terrestrial Magnetism, T. A. Jaggar, Hawaiian 
Volcano Observatory, U. S. Weather Bureau, F. A. Perret, Posillipo, 
Naples, W. M. Davis, Sturgis-Hooper Professor of Geology, emeritus, 
