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 think it was three years ago, I went to the Johns Hopkins for a year's work in connection with their laboratory, as the guests of the university, then I returned again to my home, and then last year I have been residing in Washington.

Q—As the guest of which university, Oberlin or Johns Hopkins?

A—Beg pardon?

Q—As the guest of which university?

A—As the guest of Johns Hopkins university for that one year.

And then you returned to Oberlin—went to Washington?

A—Yes.

Q—What were you connected with in Washington?

A—I had charge of—I was chief of the division of biology and agriculture of the national research committee.

Q—That was carried on by the government?

A—That was instituted by an executive order of President Wilson, immediately after the war. It was really instituted during the war, for the study of scientific problems associated with the war, and after the war was over, by executive order of President Wilson, it was continedcontinued [sic], for the study of scientific problems of use to the country in peace time.

Q—Give us your connection there?

A—In the division of biology and agriculture, the appointments of the chairmanship are regularly one-year appointments, and my appointment expired the 30th of June of this year.

Q—Are you out of a job?

A—No, I am afraid not. I wish I were.

Q—What are you doing now?

A—A year and a half ago I accepted a position on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins university, with the plan to go there at such time as my other duties made convenient, and I am to go there next spring after I return from a zoological trip to South America.

Q—And who is connected with the zoological trip to South America?

A—No one, except I have had some financial assistance from the National Academy of Science, that is the only connection.

Q—Are there others going with you?

A—No. No, I go alone.

Q—And what position are you to hold at Johns Hopkins?

A—Associate in research, associate in zoology, a purely research position.

Q—You have received degrees at colleges?

A—Yes, a few.

Q—I do not know whether you know any more on account of degrees, but I will let you mention them?

A—I beg pardon.

Q—I say I do not know whether you know any more on account of degrees, but I will let you mention them?

A—Well, I do not think they mean much. I took A. B. from Oberlin, and took Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins and have been given doctor of science, honorary, by Oberlin, since.

Q—Have you memberships in various organizations in the line of zoology?

A—Yes, I am a member of a number of the research organizations in this country, and I also have some memberships outside of zoology in economic organizations in this country and abroad, and am a member of one or two organizations abroad—two or three.

Q—In that line?

A—In zoology, or one is in economics.

Q—Have you held any offices in scientific organizations.

A—Oh, yes, from time to time.

Q—You might mention any of them that you have held?

A—Well, I have been secretary-treasurer of the Zoological society of the American Society of Naturalists. I have been president of the American Society of Zoologists and been president of Section F, zoological section of the American As-