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GENERAL A. W. QREELY Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army Associate Editors ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Washington, D. C. W J McGEE Chief, Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Louisiana Pur- chase Exposition C. HART MERRIAM Chief of the Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture WILLIS L. MOORE Chief of the Weather Bureau, U. S. Department of Agriculture O. H. TITTMANN Superintendent of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey O. P. AUSTIN Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor DAVID G. PAIRCHILD Agricultural Explorer of the Depart- ment of Agriculture. DAVID T. DAT Chief of the Division of Minerai Resources, U. S. Geological Survey ALFRED H. BROOKS U. S. Geological Survey. ANGELO HEILPRIN Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- delphia. R. D. SALISBURY University of Chicago. G. K. GILBERT U. S. Geological Survey. ALEXANDER McADIE Professor of Meteorology, U. S. Weather Bmeau, San Francisco. ALMON GUNNESON President St. Lawrence University^ Hubbard Memorial Hall, Washington, D. C