26 THE NEW WORLD OF SCIENCE 



our army before the Armistice. A handbook of Northern 

 France and chapters dealing with the western front from a 

 work on Topography and Strategy in the War, both by mem- 

 bers of the Division, were gratuitously distributed in large 

 numbers among officers of the army. At the request of the 

 Military Committee on Education and Special Training the 

 Division prepared text-books on Military Geology and Topo- 

 graphy and on Introductory Meteorology for use by the Stu- 

 dents' Army Training Corps. An exhaustive report on ma- 

 terials and facilities for road building, fortifications, and con- 

 crete ship construction was prepared by a committee of 

 geologists and engineers representing every coastal state from 

 Maine to Texas. The Division also supplied for the use of the 

 Peace Commission much information on geological and geo- 

 graphical subjects, and cooperated in an advisory capacity with 

 the Division of Military Intelligence and various other bureaus 

 and commissions of the Government. 



The role of medicine, hygiene, and surgery in the war is de- 

 scribed in Chapters 16, 17, 18 and 19. In connection with this 

 far-reaching work the Division of Medicine and Related Sci- 

 ences was in a position to render a wide variety of services. 

 The Surgeons General of the Army and Navy appreciated 

 from the outset the possibilities of an organization whose func- 

 tion it was to bring into cooperation with their offices the many 

 resources of laboratories and educational institutions through- 

 out the country. A constant effort was made to recognize those 

 applied sciences upon which medical problems are dependent 

 and to include their representatives in the organization of the 

 Division. In fact, no pains were spared to render the work 

 as useful as possible, without limitation of scope. For ex- 

 ample, when a shortage of the white mice used for pneumonia 

 diagnosis was discovered, the Division immediately arranged 

 with several cooperating laboratories to breed the large num- 

 bers needed. It is interesting to record that at the same period 

 another Division of the Research Council was equally active 

 in devising means for the extermination of the mice and other 



