July 13, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



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A. A. NoYES, Past-president, American Chem- 

 ical Society. 



Julius Stieglitz, President, American Chem- 

 ical Society. 



Charles L. Paesons, Secretary, American 

 Chemical Society. 



PLAN FOE THE IMPRESSMENT OF CHEMISTS FOR WAR 

 SERVICE AS CHEMISTS AND FOR THE PRESERVA- 

 TION OF THE SUPPLY OF CHEMISTS 



I. There shall be organized a committee of three 

 to advise the President of the United States 

 through the War Department on requests for ex- 

 emption of chemists. This committee might well 

 include besides a government representative two 

 chemists, one a chemical engineer or technical 

 chemist, the second a university man. These men 

 should be nominated to the President by the Coun- 

 cil of National Defense. 



II. Bequests for exemption of individual chem- 

 ists shall be made to this committee by: 



1. Government, state or municipal laboratories 

 and bureaus. 



2. Heads of manufacturing plants on the basis 

 of the imperative need of these men for their suc- 

 cessful operation. 



3. Presidents of universities, colleges and schools 

 of engineering or mining on the basis of profic- 

 iency, promise and ability of candidates for college 

 or university degrees, specializing in chemistry. 

 Men recommended under this head who are candi- 

 dates for the doctorate degree shall not be over 

 26 years of age when they receive the degree, and 

 men who are candidates for a four-year college de- 

 gree shall not be over 23 years of age when they 

 are to receive the degree. 



III. (1) Chemists under 21 and over 30 years 

 of age and chemists between 21 and 30 who have 

 not been drafted may enroU with the above com- 

 mittee as volunteers in chemistry subject to the 

 same conditions as the enlisted and exempted men. 



(2) Students in chemistry under 21 years of age 

 may enroll with the above committee for a ' ' chem- 

 ists reserve" under the conditions specified in 

 II. (3). 



IV. Men thus enrolled and accepted under the 

 provisions of the above paragraphs for war service 

 as chemists shaU be subject to the orders of the 

 government as to location and nature of service 

 and shall be entitled to wear a badge or other in- 

 signia indicating their official status (practise of 

 France and possibly of other European countries). 

 Students enrolled in a " chemists reserve ' ' shaU be 

 subject to the same conditions as obtain for other 



reserves of the government and shall also be en- 

 titled to wear some insignia or badge indicating 

 their enrollment. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A coionssioN under the chairmanship of Dr. 

 Frank Billings, of Chicago, is about to leave 

 for Russia, under the auspices of the war 

 council of the American National Eed Cross. 

 Its members include specialists in sanitary 

 science, general medicine, tuberculosis, bac- 

 teriology and other branches of medicine, engi- 

 neering, foods, transportation, business, etc. 

 Mr. William B. Thompson, of New York, is 

 assuming the expense of the commission. 



Forty-five engineers of the topographic 

 branch of the Geological Survey who are mem- 

 bers of the Engineer OiEcers' Reserve Corps, 

 have been assigned to active duty in connec- 

 tion with the military mapping now being 

 done for the War Department. Among the 

 men affected are Majors Frank Sutton, Wil- 

 liam H. Herron, Robert B. Marshall, Glenn S. 

 Smith, George T. Hawkins, Robert Muldrow, 

 James H. Jennings, William H. GriiSn, Robert 

 H. Chapman, Joseph H. Wheat and Albert M. 

 Walker; Captains Claude H. Birdseye, Emory 

 I. Ireland, Clyde B. Kendall, Albert Pike, Her- 

 bert H. Hodgeson, Carl L. Sadler, J. G. 

 Staack, William L. Miller, Eugene L. MeNair, 

 Asahel B. Searle, William O. Tufts, Bertram 

 A. Jenkins, James W. Bagley and Calvin E. 

 GifSn. The list also includes twenty first and 

 second lieutenants. 



Mr. Henry S. Graves, chief of the TJ. S. 

 Forest Service, has arrived in Paris to make 

 arrangements for the forest work which the 

 Am erican army engineers will undertake in 

 France in connection with the military opera- 

 tions of the allied forces. 



Dr. Allerton S. Cushman, president of the 

 Institute of Industrial Research, with head- 

 quarters at Washington, D. C, has been com- 

 missioned a major in the Officers' Reserve 

 Corps, and will carry on special research work 

 under the ordnance section on the chemistry 

 of high explosives. 



Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute for Medical Research, who has been at the 



