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The American Geophysical Union was established in 1919 as the American Committee of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, and its Executive Committee is the Committee on Geophysics of the National Research Council. The objects of the Union are to promote the study of problems concerned with the figure and physics of the Earth, to initiate and coordinate researches which depend upon International and national cooperation, and to provide for their scientific discussion and publication. In the accomplishment of these objects, the Union is divided into Sections following the plan of organization of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. There are now eight Sections, namely, (a) Geodesy, (b) Seismology, (c) Meteorology, (d) Terrestrial Magnetism and Electricity, (d) Oceanography, (f) Volcanology, (g) Hydrology, and (h) Tectonophysics. A Section of Geophysical Chemistry was discontinued May 31, 1924, as the International Union had failed to provide such a Section. The Section of Hydrology was established November 15, 1930—matters pertaining to scientific hydrology referred to the American Geophysical Union had been previously looked after by special committees on Hydrology. The Section of Tectonophysics was established April 9, 1940, for the purpose of promoting and encouraging research of fundamental importance to our knowledge of Earth‐structure not covered in any one of the other Sections of the Un

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DOI:10.1029/TR024i001p00003

年代:1943

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Mr. President: It is a great privilege and with deep pleasure that I present in behalf of the William Bowie Medal Committee the recipient of the award for 1943, the fifth recipient of this distinctive honor.The William Bowie Medal carries with it the recognition for distinguished attainment and outstanding contribution to the advancement of cooperative research in fundamental geophysics. I am presenting one whose eminent career is singularly established in these high ideals.

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DOI:10.1029/TR024i001p00007

年代:1943

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Mr. President and members of the Union: I certainly esteem it a very great honor to receive this award from the American Geophysical Union which contains in its membership such a large number of very distinguished and capable scientists. I accept the Medal with deep humility and a feeling of unworthiness but nevertheless also with a great feeling of encouragement and inspiration that you good friends have such confidence in me.I feel that the geophysical enterprises on which I have been particularly engaged have been ones which were ripe for development so that not much was needed but a reasonable amount of energy and intelligence to get them started. That was certainly true of the Section of Hydrology. A few of us remember that prior to 1930 the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics was urging the American Geophysical Union to establish a Section of Hydrology but that action on the part of our Union was postponed from year to year because it was felt there was not enough interest in hydrology to justify the organization of such a Section. Then in 1930 the Union organized a Section of Hydrology, and we were all overwhelmed with the response that we received and the place that it filled in the scientific set‐up of this country. I think there were two policies that were perhaps quite effective. One was the organization of nine permanent Research‐Committees on which were appointed an aggregate of about 115 men who were outstanding in their particular fields of hydrology and these men at once got to work actively in the Section. The other effective policy was to invite the hydrologists of the West to participate and to hold regional meetings, which they

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR024i001p00008

年代:1943

数据来源: WILEY

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DAVID GROSH THOMPSON was born in Lockland, Ohio, May 12, 1888, and died in his home in Washington, D.C., February 19, 1943. At the age of four his family moved to Evanston, Illinois, where his father was the editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate. Mr. Thompson was graduated from Northwestern University in 1911, received a Master's degree from the University of Illinois in 1913, and also took graduate work in Chicago and Johns Hopkins universities. He served on the geological surveys of Illinois and Maryland, and was an instructor in Lehigh University and Goucher College. From 1917 until his death he served in the Ground‐Water Division of the United States Geological Survey. In 1922 he was married to Frances E. Goodrich. He is Survived by her and by their two sons, David Goodrich and Clifford Francis. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America, and a member of the American Geophysical Union, Society of Economic Geologists, Geological Society of Washington, Washington Academy of Sciences, American Water Works ASSOCiation, and Delta Tau Delta fraternit

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR024i001p00009-2

年代:1943

数据来源: WILEY

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Major RICHARD CARLYSLE CADY died January 15, 1943, at the age of 35 years, as a result of accidental injuries received on January 3, while on duty overseas in the United states Army. He had been engaged for about a year in locating well‐sites to develop water‐supplies for military establishments in Africa and Asia. He was buried with full military honors in a British military cemetery in Africa. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Beatrice Dunn Cady, two sons—Richard, Jr., and James, aged 8 and 5, respectively—and his parents, Dr. and Mrs. James D. Cady.Major Cady was born in Cortland, New York, August 7, 1907, graduated from Colgate University, and did postgraduate work in Colgate and Harvard. He was appointed in the Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior, in 1930, and from 1931 until he began his work in Africa he served continuously in the Ground‐Water Division of the Geological Survey. He was a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Society of Economic Geologists, the Geological Society of Washington, and the Sigma Gamma Epsilon and Phi Gamma Delta fra

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR024i001p00011

年代:1943

数据来源: WILEY

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Of glacial geologists the United states has produced a goodly number during the past seven or eight decades, but of glaciologists—students of living glaciers and glacier‐ice—this country has at no time possessed more than a scanty few. It is therefore a particularly grievous blow to American science that of the handful of glaciologists of the present time we should have lost through the death of MAX HARRISON DEMOREST one of the most brilliant and, even in his youth, most outstanding.From the meager advices given out by the War Department it appears that Demorest, who was commissioned a First Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps and was stationed at a remote outpost in Greenland, lost his life on November 30, 1942, in an accident with a motor‐sled. We may derive some slight satisfaction from the knowledge that he did not fall before a brutal foe, but met death while on an errand of mercy in a brave attempt to rescue the crew of an army plane that had been forced down on the inhospitable ice‐sheet. Of the nature of the accident, no details have been

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR024i001p00012

年代:1943

数据来源: WILEY

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The Commission welcomes this opportunity to discuss with the American Committee of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics a tentative program in international geoscience. Our principal desire is to help keep the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics alive—not merely in cold storage—until its whole membership can again unite in the support of world‐science for post‐war problems. We also feel that our endeavors, at this time, may be of interest to other international scientific unions, which, for several reasons, have entirely ceased to function or even to maintain contacts between their personnel in the allied countries.The International Commission on Continental and Oceanic Structure was appointed, as most of you will recall, at the Edinburgh Assembly (1936) of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics with the instructions that it seek to stimulate and facilitate the accumulation and correlation of factual information: First, as to the nature of the crustal structures characteristic of continental and oceanic areas; and second, as to the nature of the terrestrial processes responsible for the recurrence of certain crustal structures and patterns over the entire Earth's

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR024i001p00016

年代:1943

数据来源: WILEY

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W. D. LAMBERT (Section of Geodesy)—I hold no office in the Section of Geodesy. The President and the Secretary of the Section are both here to speak for the Section, if they so desire. I think I may say, however, that the Section of Geodesy has been able to do little in the way of pure science. Most of us have had our attention turned to problems in some way connected with the war, or because of the war we have had to take on extra work of routine characte

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR024i001p00019

年代:1943

数据来源: WILEY

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At the last meeting of this Section, Major Frank L. Culley of the United States Corps of Engineers presented a paper describing the application of punched‐card methods of computing to the computation of military‐grid coordinates. Although the members of the Division of Geodesy of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey have been interested in the development of scientific computations by the punched‐card method, it was only about a year ago that the opportunity to investigate the application of such methods to the adjustment of triangulation first presented itself. In view of the success of the former project, it was felt that the time and expense involved in an investigation of the application of these methods to triangulation‐adjustments would be well ju

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR024i001p00031

年代:1943

数据来源: WILEY

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In connection with recent triangulation in Alaska it was necessary to observe a number of Laplace azimuth‐stations between the south coast and Fairbanks and down the Yukon from Fairbanks to Norton Sound. Lieutenant Seaborg was detailed to make the necessary astronomical azimuth‐ and longitude‐determinations on this project. He was also instructed to make latitude‐observations at each station if this could be done without serious delay to the progress of the work, although latitudes are not necessary for Laplace control. In order to facilitate the azimuth‐determinations, a special method was devised by Mr. Swick for use in high latitudes which seemed to work out quite satisfactorily in th

ISSN:0002-8606    

DOI:10.1029/TR024i001p00032

年代:1943

数据来源: WILEY