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of England’s munitions program is an Ameri- 
ean; and several English chemists who were 
living in America returned to England for 
chemical duty. 
With this example in mind, the director of 
the Bureau of Mines and the Secretary of the 
American Chemical Society called on the Di- 
rector of the Council of National Defense, and 
after consulting with him, at his official re- 
quest, undertook to obtain a census of Amer- 
ican chemists for use in the war that was al- 
ready imminent. This census was started in 
February 1917, and has been kept up uninter- 
ruptedly to the present time. By July, 1917, 
some 15,000 chemists had sent in full data as to 
their address, age, place of birth, lineage, citi- 
zenship, dependents, institutions from which 
graduated, chemical experience, experience in 
foreign countries, aftiliations with technical 
societies, military training, publications, re- 
search work performed, and other data of im- 
portance. The list has been continually added 
to, questionnaires being sent to every new 
name of a chemist that could be obtained. 
While the list is not complete, owing to the 
fact that some chemists, no matter how care- 
fully followed up, will not reply to letters, 
nevertheless, the data are comprehensive and 
as complete as they can be made. 
The cooperation between the Bureau of 
Mines and the American Chemical Society 
was perfect. The bureau furnished its whole 
statistical foree and the society put special 
elerks at work. The data obtained were in- 
dexed and cross-indexed on some 28,000 cards. 
When America entered the war every chemist 
was directed to keep the society informed as 
to his military status, and continual corre- 
spondence was carried on by the society direct 
with officers and privates in order that the 
chemists of the country might serve the coun- 
try in the best possible manner. To-day the 
list consists of some 17,000 filled-out question- 
naires, 12,020 membership cards of the Ameri- 
can Chemical Society, and some 3,000 cards 
of bona fide chemists actually in war service, 
most of them in uniform. A ecard list is kept 
of officers and enlisted men who are graduate 
chemists in the United States Army in Amer- 
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ica; another list of those in France, including 
both those in chemical service and in the 
Army and expeditionary forces not yet trans- 
ferred to chemical service, and another list of 
those in the Navy. It is believed these lists 
are reasonably complete and up to date. 
This work has involved an expenditure of 
many thousands of dollars, the writing of over 
10,000 personal letters, and the sending of over 
50,000 circular communications to the chem- 
ists of the country. 
Already in the early part of February, 1917, 
the president of the American Chemical So- 
ciety, Dr. Julius Stieglitz, had offered without 
reservation the services of the members of the 
American Chemical Society to President Wil- 
son in any emergency that might arise and 
had received an appreciative reply. On Febru- 
ary 15, 1917, a similar communication was ad- 
dressed, by direction of the president, by the 
secretary of the society to the Secretary of 
War; and on April 11, 1917, at the Kansas 
City meeting of the American Chemical So- 
ciety, the following resolutions were passed, 
which were widely circulated, and had a pro- 
found effect on the mental attitude of Amer- 
ican chemists: 
Resolved, That we reaffirm the tender to the 
President of the United States of the services of 
the members of our society in all the fields in 
which we are qualified to act. 
That the security and welfare of the country de- 
mand the organization of all the men and facili- 
ties of the United States, so as to insure the great- 
est possible service and value for each. 
The progress of the war thus far principally 
teaches us that modern warfare makes extraordi- 
nary demands upon science, food supply and 
finance. 
For the protection and success of our men under 
arms we recommend the use, in their respective 
fields, of all trained chemists, physicists and med- 
ical men, including advanced students of these 
subjects. 
To this end, in collaboration with the United 
States Bureau of Mines, we are preparing a census 
of chemists. With no desire to avoid field service 
for men of training in the professions named, we 
urge that those of special ability be held to the 
work they can best perform. Thus we may ayoid 
