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developing agencies, or if it should go to one 

 of the staff or supply departments for test and 

 consideration of its adoption, and final ac- 

 quirement of title if such action is desirable. 



Composing the Advisory Board at present 

 are the following : D. W. Brunton, member 

 JSTaval Consulting Board and chairman "War 

 Committee of Technical Societies; Dr. Graham 

 Edgar, member National Research Council; 

 Colonel James W. Furlow, Quartermaster De- 

 partment, chief of Motors Division; Colonel 

 J. A. Hornsby, M.C., chief of Hospital Divi- 

 sion, Surgeon General's Office; Lieutenant 

 Colonel Morgan L. Brett, Ordnance Depart- 

 ment, Engineering Branch; Lieutenant Colonel 

 Robert A. Millikan, S.O., chief of Science and 

 Eesearch Division; Lieutenant Colonel N". H. 

 Slaughter, S.C., chief of Radio Development 

 Section; Major Joseph A. Mauborgne, S.C., 

 chief of Electrical Engineering Section. 



When completed the board will have 12 to 

 15 members to cover fully all of the various 

 technical problems which may come before it. 



In testing and developing inventions and in 

 considering problems presented by stafE de- 

 partments, the Advisory Board works in con- 

 nection with a number of agencies. Among 

 them are the following: National Research 

 Council; Bureau of Standards; War Com- 

 mittee of National Technical Societies (this 

 committee consists of two members detailed 

 from each of the 10 important technical so- 

 cieties in the United States) ; laboratories and 

 shops of the staff and supply departments of 

 the Army; Patent Ofiice; Aircraft Production 

 Board; all Army service schools; C. L. Nor- 

 ton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 Cambridge, Mass.; Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, 

 General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. T.; 

 A. H. Beyer, chairman committee on testing 

 laboratory, Columbia University, Broadway 

 and llYth Street, New York City; R. R. 

 Abbott, metallurgist. Peerless Motor Car Co., 

 Cleveland, Ohio ; Dr. John A. Matthews, presi- 

 dent Halcomb Steel Co., Syracuse, N. Y. ; 

 Knox Taylor, president Taylor-Wharton Iron 

 & Steel Co., High Bridge, N. J.; Howard D. 

 Colman, Baber-Colmaii Co., Rockford, HI.; 

 Preston S. Miller, Electrical Testing Labora- 



tories, Eightieth Street and East End Avenue, 

 New York City; Herbert Fisher Moore, Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, Urbana, 111.; L. F. Miller, 

 metallurgist, Mitchell Moore Co., 1832 Asylum 

 Avenue, Racine, Wis. ; E. J. Okey, the Timken 

 Roller Bearing Co., Canton, Ohio; Dr. Ales 

 Hrdlicka, curator division of physical anthro- 

 pology. United States National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Any person desiring to submit an invention 

 for consideration, test, sale or development 

 should do so by letter, giving in order the fol- 

 lowing information : Name and object of the 

 invention; any claim for superiority or 

 novelty; any results obtained by actual ex- 

 periment; whether the invention is patented; 

 whether remuneration is expected; whether 

 the invention has been before any other 

 agency; whether the writer is owner or agent: 

 the number of inclosures with the letter. A 

 written description and sketches or drawings 

 of sufficient detail to afford a full understand- 

 ing of the cases should also be submitted. 

 Should the invention be an explosive or other 

 chemical combination, the ingredients and 

 processes of mixture should be stated. 



The Inventions Section will not bear the 

 expense of preparation of drawings and de- 

 scriptions, nor advance funds for personal or 

 travelling expenses of inventors. 



Any matter submitted will be treated as 

 confidential. The inventor will be notified of 

 each step taken during the investigation of 

 his invention. All communications should be 

 addressed: Inventions Section, General StafE, 

 Army War College, Washington, D. C. 



THE VOLUNTEER MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS 



Dr. Franklin Martin, member of the ad- 

 visory commission and chairman of the general 

 medical board of the Council of National De- 

 fense, authorizes the statement that following 

 out the plans for organizing the volunteer med- 

 ical service corps, to enlist the services of 

 physicians ineligible for camp or field duty, the 

 medical section of the Council of National De- 

 fense is sending to several thousand doctors a 

 letter which says in part: 



The Council of National Defense has authorized 

 and directed the medical section of the council to 



