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of chemical research for new gases and pro- 
tection against known gases which has been 
carried on by the Bureau of Mines. All test- 
ing and experiment stations will be under the 
direction of the Chemical Warfare Service. 
The responsibility of providing chemists 
for all branches of the government and assist- 
ing in the procurement of chemists for in- 
dustries essential to the success of the war and 
government has been intrusted to the Chemical 
Warfare Service. 
All chemists now in the Army will be re- 
moved from their units and placed under the 
authority of the Chemical Warfare Service. 
Newly drafted chemists will be assigned to the 
Chemical Warfare Service. 
Authority to assign enlisted men or com- 
missioned chemists to establishments manu- 
facturing for the government has been granted 
to the new section. 
THE ORGANIZATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR 
WAR SERVICE 
Tre Council of National Defense authorizes 
the following: 
As the first step in a nation-wide campaign 
to enroll every doctor in the United States in 
the Medical Reserve Corps of the Army, the 
Naval Reserve Force, or the Volunteer Med- 
ical Service Corps members of the committees 
of the Medical Section, Council of National 
Defense, for the states of New York, Pennsyl- 
vania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Vir- 
ginia, West Virginia and the District of Co- 
lumbia met at the Hotel Washington in Wash- 
ington. At this meeting the state representa- 
tives discussed with the representatives of the 
Council of National Defense details of the 
plan to be followed and received instructions. 
This meeting is the first of a series, the 
United States having been divided into eight 
groups. The work will be subdivided among 
the state and county representatives of the 
Medical Section, Council of National Defense, 
in each state, and every doctor in the country 
who has so far not done so will be asked to 
apply for membership in the Medical Reserve 
Corps of the Army, Naval Reserve Force, or 
the Volunteer Medical Service Corps. El- 
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igible to the Volunteer Medical Service Corps 
are all those who would be eligible to the 
Medical Reserve Corps were it not for being 
over the age of 55, physical disability, com- 
munity or institutional need, or dependents. 
Women doctors are eligible to the Volunteer 
Medical Service Corps. 
The states included in the various groups 
are as follows: 
Group No. i1—Maine, New Hampshire, 
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con- 
necticut. 
Group No. 2—New York, Pennsylvania, 
New Jersey, Delaware, District of Columbia, 
Maryland, Virginiq, West Virginia. 
Group No. 3.—Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, 
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin. 
Group No. 4.—Louisiana, Tennessee, North 
Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, 
Alabama, Mississippi. 
Group No. 5.—Ilowa, Minnesota, North Da- 
kota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Wy- 
oming. 
Group No. 6.—Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, 
Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado. 
Group No. 7.—Washington, Oregon, Idaho. 
Group No. 8—Utah, Nevada, California, 
Arizona, New Mexico. 
By authority of Surgeon-General Gorgas, of 
the Army; Surgeon-General Braisted, of the 
Navy; and Surgeon-General Blue, of the 
United States Public Health Service; Dr. 
Franklin Martin, chairman of the general 
medical board of the Council of National De- 
fense, has appointed the following committee 
on classification of the medical profession of 
the United States for military and civil pur- 
poses. Colonel R. B. Miller, Marine Corps, 
United States Army; Colonel V. C. Vaughan, 
Marine Corps, National Army; Lieutenant- 
Colonel H. D. Arnold, Marine Corps National 
Army; Surgeon R. C. Ramsdell, United States 
‘Navy; Surgeon J. R. Phelps, United States 
Navy; Dr. Joseph Schoreschowsky, United 
States Public Health Service; Dr. Otto P. 
Geier, Dr. John D. McLean and Dr. C. E. 
Sawyer. Ex officio: Surgeon-General W. C. 
Gorgas, United States Army; Surgeon-Gen- 
eral W. C. Braisted, United States Navy; 
