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of the firm of Arthur D. Little, Incorporated, of Boston to become a member 
of the Botanical Raw Products Committee, and to extend a similar invita- 
tion to Dr. W. W. Stockberger, in charge of the division of Drug Plant Inves- 
tigations of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
Chemistry Committee. — Upon recommendation of the Chairman of this 
Committee, the name of the Sub-committee on Dyestuffs was changed to 
read Sub-committee on Dyestuffs and Textiles, and the name of the Sub- 
committee on Nitrogen Fixation was changed to read Sub-committee on 
Nitrates and Ammonia. Furthermore the following were added to the mem- 
bership of the Chemistry Committee: 
George A. Burrell, Assistant to the Director, U. S. Bureau of Mines. 
William F. Hillebrand, Chief Chemist, U. S. Bureau of Standards. 
Charles L. Parsons, Chief Chemist, U. S. Bureau of Mines. 
James F. Norris, Professor of General Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology. 
Joel H. Hildebrand, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of California. 
John Johnston, Research Department, American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Co. 
and membership in the Sub-committee on Nitrates and Ammonia was ap- 
pointed as follows: 
Arthur A. Noyes, Chairman. 
Frederick G. Keyes, Associate Professor of Physico-Chemical Research, Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology. 
Alfred H. White, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan. 
The resignation of Mr. W. V. Vawter as a member of the Sub-committee 
on Chemistry of Fuels was accepted. 
Geology and Paleontology Committee. — Upon request of the Chairman, the 
following were added as members of this Committee: 
Edward B. Mathews, State Geologist of Maryland. 
Frank W. DeWolf, State Geologist of lUinois. 
and a Sub-committee on the Geology of Cantonments and Topographical 
Instruction in Training Camps was authorized with the following membership : 
Frank W. DeWolf, Chairman, President, Association of American State Geologists. 
Wallace W. Atwood, Professor of Physiography, Harvard University. 
Isaiah Bowman, Secretary, American Geographical Society. 
Marius R. Campbell, Geologist, U. S. Geological Survey. 
William O. Hotchkiss, State Geologist of Wisconsin. 
Douglas W. Johnson, Professor of Geography, Columbia University. 
Lawrence Martin, Professor of Geography and Physiography, University of Wisconsin. 
George Otis Smith, Director, U. S. Geological Survey. 
An allotment ol $100 was also authorized for miscellaneous expenses inci- 
dent to the work of the Geology and Paleontology Committee and its Sub- 
