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n. COMMITTEES INCLUDED IN MEDICAL DmSION 



1. Anatomy Committee: Chairman, H. H. Don- 

 aldson. 



2. Physiology Committee : Chairman, W. B. 

 Cannon. Vice-chairman and Acting Chairman, W. 

 H. Howell. , 



(a) Subcommittee for Investigations on the* 

 Physiology of Shock: Chairman, W. B. Cannon. 



(6) Subcommittee on the Control of Hemor- 

 rhage: Chairman, W. H. Howell. 



(c) Subcommittee on Solutions adopted for 

 Transfusion after Hemorrhage: Chairman, L. J. 

 Henderson. 



(d) Subcommittee on Fatigue in Industrial 

 Pursuits: Chairman, Frederic S. Lee. 



3. Committee on Medicine and Hygiene: Chair- 

 man, Victor C. Vaughan. 



(o) Subcommittee on Psychiatry: Chairman, 

 Stewart Paton. 



4. Psychology Committee : Chairman, Robert M. 

 Yerkes. 



(a) Subcommittee on Methods for the Psycholog- 

 ical Examination of Becruits: Chairman, Robert 

 M. Yerkee. 



(b) Subcommittee on Tests of Special Skill: 

 Chairman, Edward L. Thorndike. 



(c) Subcommittee on Problems of Aviation, In- 

 cluding the Examination of Aviation Becruits: 

 Chairman, Edward L. Thorndike. 



(d) Subcommittee on Incapacity, Beeducation 

 and Vocational Training: Chairman, Shepherd I. 

 Franz. 



(e) Subcommittee on Visual Problems: Chair- 

 man, Raymond Dodge. 



5. Committee on Anthropology : Chairman, Wm. 

 H. Holmes; Vice-chairman, C. B. Davenport. 



6. Zoology Committee : Chairman, E. G. Conklin. 



(a) Subcommittee on Medical Zoology, with 

 groups representing (1) entomology, (i) helmin- 

 thology, {S) protozoology. 



m. COOPERATING COMMITTEES (NOW EXISTING IN 

 THE council) 



1. Chemistry: Chairman, M. T. Bogert. 



(o) Subcommittee on Biochemistry: Chairman, 

 Frank P. TJnderhill. 



(b) Subcommittee on Pharmaceutical Chemis- 

 try: Chairman, Frederick B. Power. 



2. Food Committee : Chairman, A. E. Taylor. 



3. Advisory Committee on Toxicity of Preserved 

 Foods: Chairman, J. J. Abel. 



IV. purpose 

 To concentrate in Washington a compara- 



tively small body of men representing the ex- 

 isting committees, and thus provide for effec- 

 tive cooperation in the rapid organization of 

 medical research as an aid to the solution of 

 urgent military problems. 



V. FIELD 



Medicine, surgery, hygiene, physiology, 

 anatomy, psychology, psychiatry, physical 

 anthropology and closely related subjects. 



\1. METHODS 



1. To cooi)erate closely with the Surgeon 

 General of the Army (through Colonel Rus- 

 sell) and of the Navy (through Dr. Stitt) in 

 determining urgent problems and to enlist the 

 aid of civilian laboratories in the solution of 

 these problems. 



2. To assist the Surgeons General of the 

 Army and Navy in procuring trained investi- 

 gators to enter the respective services as con- 

 tract surgeons to undertake special field in- 

 vestigations during short periods of time. 



3. To send, if it is considered advisable, in- 

 dividuals to England, France and Italy to de- 

 termine the urgent problems which should be 

 taken up without loss of time in civilian lab- 

 oratories in this country. 



4. To invite, if it is considered necessary, 

 commissions or individuals from England, 

 France and Italy to this country to advise with 

 the Medical Division of the National Research 

 Council. 



5. To maintain correspondence with promi- 

 nent medical investigators in the American 

 Expeditionary Forces and in civilian laborator- 

 ies in France, England and Italy and thus ob- 

 tain reports of the important fields of research, 

 the character of the work in progress and the 

 needs of the workers. 



6. To establish relations with and if agree- 

 able to them, to cooperate with research organi- 

 zations abroad as (a) British Medical Re- 

 search Committee, (h) the Research Society 

 recently organized in France by medical offi- 

 cers of American, French and British forces, 

 and (c) the Committee on Medical Research 

 of the American Red Cross in France, etc. 



7. To obtain reports of all medical research 

 organizations in this country dealing with war 



