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ing; Bureau of Mines, Harvey S. Mudd, New In- 

 terior Department Building. 



U. S. Food Administration. — Division of Chem- 

 ieals, Charles W. Merrill. 



U. S. Fuel Adviinistration. — Oil Division, Thomas 

 Cox; Coal Division, C. E. Lesher, New Interior De- 

 partment Building. 



V. S. Shipping Board. — C. K. Leith, J. E. Spurr, 

 New Interior Department Building. 



War Trade Board. — Bureau of Eeseareh, S. H. 

 Salomon, 1027 Vermont Avenue; Bureau of Im- 

 ports, Lincoln Hutchinson, Bond Building; Bu- 

 reau of Exports, S. C. Thompson, 1435 K Street 

 NW. 



U. 8. Tariff Commission. — Guy C. Eiddell, 1322 

 New York Avenue NW. 



Department of State. — Consular Service, H. A. 



17. S. National Museum. — ^Division of Mineral 

 Technology, Chester G. Gilbert. 



Federal Trade Commission. — C. C. Houghton, 

 921 Fifteenth Street NW. 



National Sesearcli Council. — John Johnston, 1023 

 Sixteenth Street NW.; Section of Metallurgy, H. 

 M. Howe, 1023 Sixteenth Street NW.; Division of 

 Geology and Geography, John C. Merriam, 1023 

 Sixteenth Street NW. 



Director General of Sailroads. — Car Service Sec- 

 tion, G. F. Richardson, Interstate Commerce Build- 

 ing. 



PHYSICIANS FOR THE ARMY AND NAVY 

 SERVICE 



Dr. Franklin Martin, chairman of the com- 

 mittee on medicine of the advisory commis- 

 sion of the Council of National Defense, ap- 

 peals for an increased enrollment of doctors 

 for service as medical officers in the Army and 

 Navy. 



Surgeon-General Gorgas asks for 5,000 med- 

 ical men for the Army with which to establish 

 a reserve as fast as the 16,000 medical officers 

 now in training and in uniform are ordered to 

 France. While men between the ages of 25 

 and 45 are most desirable, the maximum age 

 limit for medical officers is 55 years. Physi- 

 cians are commissioned as first lieutenants, 

 captains and majors. After acceptance of their 

 commissions they are given a reasonable length 

 of time in which to arrange their affairs be- 

 fore assignment to active duty. 



An increased demand for naval medical offi- 

 cers has been created by the additional re- 



sponsibility of the Navy in protecting ships en- 

 gaged in the transportation of troops and sup- 

 plies to Europe. The following letter from 

 Surgeon-General Braisted is self-explanatory: 



Washington, D. C, April 5, 1918. 

 Dr. Franklin Martin, 



Council of National Defense. 

 My Dear Doctor: May I request the cooperation 

 of the Council of Na/tional Defense in conveying to 

 the medical profession the fact that the Medical 

 Department of the Navy is urgently in need of 

 additional medical officers? Anything that you 

 can do to assist us in filling these needs vriU be 

 greatly appreciated. 



Thanking you in advance for this, as well as for 

 your many acts of cooperation in the past, I am. 

 Very sincerely, yours, 



W. C. Braisted, 

 Surgeon General, U. S. Navy 



Two thousand medical officers are required 

 to meet the demands for immediate expansion 

 and to establish a reserve. 



Application blanks may be obtained from 

 the Surgeon General of the Army, the Surgeon 

 General of the Navy, the Council of National 

 Defense, or examining boards for medical offi- 

 cers located in all the large cities of the coun- 

 try. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. Samuel Henshaw has been appointed 

 director of the Harvard University Museum. 



Dr. John Johnston, of the Geophysical 

 Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, has 

 been appointed secretary of the National Be- 

 search Council. 



Dr. Stephen Smith has resigned as member 

 of the New York State Board of Charities, 

 an office which he has held for many years. 

 Dr. Smith was ninety-five years of age on 

 February 19. 



Professor Eussell H. Chittenden, director 

 of the Scientific School of Tale University, 

 Professor Graham Lusk, of the Cornell Medical 

 School and Mr. John L. Simpson, of the 

 United States Food Administration, have been 

 representing the United States at the inter- 

 allied food conference in Paris. The imme- 

 diate purpose of the conference is to establish 



