American Experts at the Peace ConferenceSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan., 1919), pp. 93-95Published by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/7024 .

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THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 93

of science to the nation in time of war and its dominating place in the problems of reconstruction.

The American Association met ir Baltimore in 1858 and then allowed fifty years to elapse before agair visiting the city. In the meanwhile the Johns Hopkins University hac been founded and had created ir Baltimore one of the great centers for scientific research of the coun. try. Since the meeting of 1908 the university has moved to its new sit( at Homewood where the pictur. esqueness of the situation gives ad. mirable opportunity for architec- tural development. The Carrol] Mansion, built on the grounds in 1803, has been used as the key-note and the buildings already erectec house worthily one of our great uni-

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AMERICAN EXPERTS AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE

ACCOMPANYING President Wilson on the George Washington, which sailed for France on December 4, were a number of scientific men, scholars and specialists, who, under the direction of Colonel E. M. House, have been engaged since No- vember 10, 1917, in the offices of the American Geographical Society at Broadway and 156th Street, Ne'w York, gathering data to be used al the Peace Conference. Dr. Sidney E. Mezes, president of the College of the City of New York, is director of the inquiry and has associated witl him many of the best qualified mer in the nation.

In September, 1917, as a result of conferences between Colonel E. M House and President Wilson, Colonel House was authorized to organize forces to gather and prepare, foi use at the Peace Conference, the most complete information possible from the best and latest sources, for consideration by the Peace Commis. sioners. Colonel House held pre-

liminary conferences with Dr. S. E. Mezes, president of the College of the City of New York; Professor James T. Shotwell, of Columbia Uni- versity and Professor A. C. Coolidge, of Harvard University.

The inquiry has had a personnel of about 150 people. Among them are: Director Mezes; Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the American Geographical Society; Allyn A. Young, head of the department of economics at Cornell University; Charles H. Haskins, dean of the graduate school of Harvard Univer- sity, specialist on Alsace-Lorraine and Belgium; Clive Day, head of the economics department of Yale, spe- cialist on the Balkans; W. E. Lunt, professor of history, Haverford Col- lege, specialist on northern Italy; R. H. Lord, professor of history at Harvard, specialist on Russia and Poland; Charles Seymour, professor of history at Yale, specialist on Austria-Hungary; W. L. Wester- mann, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, specialist on Turkey; G. L. Beer, formerly of Columbia University, specialist on colonial history; Cartographer Mark Jefferson, professor of geography, Michigan State Normal College; Ro- land B. Dixon, professor of eth- nography at Harvard.

In addition there are eleven as- sistants and four commissioned offi- cers of the Military Intelligence Di- vision assigned to the inquiry for special problems on strategy, econom- ics and ethnography. These officers are: Major D. W. Johnson, Colum- bia University; Major Lawrence Martin, University of Wisconsin; Captain W. C. Farabee, the Univer- sity Museum, Philadelphia; Captain Stanley Hornbeck, author of " Con- temporary Politics in the Far East." The above named, together with map-makers and other assistants, sailed with the Peace Commission on the George Washington.

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USE OF THE METRIC SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES

MORE extensive use of the metric system in the trade and conumerce of the United States is recommended in a resolution adopted by the United States section of the Inter- national High Commission, of which Secretary McAdoo is chairman.

The commission has regarded this subject as of particular importance in the United States. It is,. of course, unnecessary for the United States section to recommend to the Latin-American sections of the com- mission anything in connection with the metric system, which is exclu-

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