January 4, 1918] 



SCIENCE 



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placed in class V on the ground that he is in the 

 military service of the United States. 



In accordance with the authority given by this 

 modification the following regulations are promul- 

 gated governing the enlistment by engineer stu- 

 dents in the Engineer Enlisted Reserve Corjjs. 



In order to be eligible for enlistment in the 

 Engineer branch of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, 

 under the above-quoted amendment to Selective 

 Service Regulations, a candidate must fulfill the 

 following conditions: 



(o) He must be a citizen of the United States. 



(&) He must be a student in one of the schools, 

 the names of which are borne upon the list of 

 technical schools approved by the Secretary of 

 War for the purpose of carrying out section 5 of 

 the river and harbor act approved February 27, 

 1911, relating to appointments from civil life to 

 the grade of second lieutenant in the Corps of 

 Engineers. 



(c) He must be regularly enrolled and must be 

 pursuing a course required for the degree of 

 chemical engineer, civil engineer, electrical engi- 

 neer, mechanical engineer, mining engineer, or 

 some other equivalent engineering or technical de- 

 gree. 



(d) He must have made since his entry upon 

 this course at the school a record of standing which 

 will indicate clearly that he may be regarded fairly 

 as deserving a place among the first third, based 

 primarily on the scholastic records, of the young 

 men who have graduated from that institution 

 during the past ten years. 



There follow forms of affidavits which are 

 to be signed by the student and the president 

 or dean of the school at which he is studying. 

 The regulations continue: 



In order to receive prompt consideration, ap- 

 plications from candidates now at college, and who 

 are over twenty-one years of age, should be sub- 

 mitted so as to reach the office of the Chief of 

 Engineers in Washington not later than January 

 15. The application from a person who has not 

 reached this age at the present time must be sub- 

 mitted within three months before or one month 

 after he reaches the age of twenty-one. 



As rapidly as possible after the receipt of the 

 applications in the Office of the Chief Engineers, 

 they will be carefully examined, and the candi- 

 dates whose applications are approved will 

 promptly be sent cards of authorization, authoriz- 

 ing them to be enlisted in the Engineer Enlisted 

 Reserve Corps by an office authorized to make en- 



listments in the Army, provided, of course, that 

 they ]iass the necessary pliysical examination 

 which will be made under the direction of the en- 

 listing officer immediately prior to enlistment. 



When thus enlisted the student 's name will be 

 placed on the "inactive list" of the Engineer En- 

 listed Reserve Corps, and he will be allowed to re- 

 main on this inactive list in order to enable him to 

 complete his course at the institution. 



Immediately after the completion of this course, 

 or upon his discontinuance of the course for other 

 reasons, the student will be given the Ojition of 

 being called into active service under his enlist- 

 ment and being assigned to some one of the engi- 

 neering branches of the Army, or of being im- 

 mediately discharged and taking his place again 

 among those subject to service under the draft. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The War Department has established a 

 Chemical Service Section and two lieutenant- 

 colonels have been commissioned. Dr. Ray- 

 mond F. Bacon, director of the Mellon Insti- 

 tute, Pittsburgh, to have charge of the chem- 

 ical work in France, and Professor William H. 

 Walker, of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, to have charge of the work in the 

 United States. 



The Perkin Medal Committee, consisting of 

 members of the various chemical societies, has 

 awarded the Perkin Medal for 1918 to Auguste 

 J. Eossi of Niagara Falls, New York, in 

 recognition of his work on titanium. The 

 Perkin Medal was founded in 1906 by the New 

 York Section of the Society of Chemical In- 

 dustry to commemorate Sir William Perkin. 



Professor A. Eighi, professor of physics at 

 Bologne, has been elected an honorary member 

 of the British Institution of Electrical Engi- 

 neers. 



Professor T. B. Wood, Drapers professor of 

 agriculture in the University of Cambridge, 

 has been appointed a member of the British 

 Development Commission in succession to Mr. 

 A. D. Hall, now secretary to the Board of 

 Agriculture. 



Dr. Arthur Keith, F.R.S., conservator of 

 the Museum of the Ro.val College of Surgeons, 

 has been appointed Fullerian professor of 

 physiology in the Royal Institution. 



