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front. Not only are these examinations ex- 

 pected to weed out those whose nervous sys- 

 tems are broken down, and the feeble-minded 

 or imbecile, but they will hinder the draft 

 evaders from feigning nervousness or mental 

 sickness. Not only will these expert neurolo- 

 gists and psychopathologists examine the men 

 at the cantonments, but they will go to the 

 front with the men and establish base hos- 

 pitals adjacent to the orthopsedic base hos- 

 pitals. 



Ten of the leading psychopathologists of the 

 country have been selected for the starting of 

 this branch of service. They are Dr. E. E. 

 Southard, director of the psychopathic hospital 

 of Boston; Dr. Eobert M.. Yerkes, professor of 

 comparative psychology at Harvard Univer- 

 sity; Dr. August Hoch, director of the 

 psychiatric institute. New York City; Dr. 

 A.dolf Meyer, director of the Phipps Psychiat- 

 ric Institute, Baltimore; Dr. Albert M. Bar- 

 rett, director of the State Psychopathic Hos- 

 pital, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Dr. William A. 

 White, superintendent of the Government Hos- 

 pital for the Insane, Washington, D. C; Dr. 

 William E. Fernald, superintendent of the 

 State School for the Feeble Minded at Wa- 

 yerley, Mass. ; Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, medical 

 director of the National Committee for Men- 

 tal Hygiene of New York City, who has gone 

 to England for observation; Dr. Joseph P. 

 Collins, of the New York Neurological Insti- 

 tute, New York City, and Dr. T. H. Weisen- 

 burg, president of the American Neurological 

 Association of Philadelphia. 



There are five clinics where leading special- 

 ists and doctors are preparing for the work. 

 They have been assigned by the government 

 for special teaching in neurology and pschi- 

 atry for commissioned men in the Medical Re- 

 serve Corps. The courses of six weeks' dura- 

 tion, the first course just being completed, are 

 being given at the following clinics : The Psy- 

 chopathic Hospital, Boston; Phipps Psychi- 

 atric Clinic, Baltimore; State Psychopathic 

 Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich. ; the Neurological 

 Institute, New York City, and the Psychiatric 

 Institute, Ward's Island, New York. 



THIRD NATIONAL EXPOSITION OF CHEMICAL 

 INDUSTRIES 



The third national exhibition of chemical 

 industries will be held in the Grand Central 

 Palace, New York City, during the week of 

 September 24. Many of the exhibits will have 

 to do with the uses of chemistry in the making 

 of war materials, and there will be a special 

 section devoted to the South which will be 

 known as the Southern Opportunity Section. 

 Dr. Charles H. Herty, chairman of the ad- 

 visory committee of the exposition, will de- 

 liver the opening address on Monday, Sep- 

 tember 24, at two o'clock. Professor Julius 

 Stieglitz, president of the American Chemical 

 Society; Dr. Colin G. Fink, president of the 

 American Electro-Chemical Society, and Dr. 

 G. W. Thompson, president of the American 

 Institute of Chemical Engineers, will speak 

 before different sections of the convention. 

 Other speakers on the program include W. S. 

 Kies, vice-president of the National City 

 Bank, who will talk upon " The Development 

 of Export Trade with South America " ; Pro- 

 fessor Marston Taylor Bogert, chairman of the 

 chemistry committee of the National Coimcil, 

 whose subject will be " The operation and 

 work of the National Research Council for 

 the national weal," and Dr. L. H. Baekeland, 

 of the Naval Counsulting Board, on " The 

 future of the American chemical industry." 



One day will be devoted to a symposium 

 upon the national resources as opportunities 

 for chemical industries, and among the 

 speakers will be : Mr. C. H. Crawford, as- 

 sistant to president of Nashville, Chattanooga 

 & St. Louis Ry. ; Mr. V. V. Kelsey, chemist- 

 industrial agent, Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio 

 Ry. ; Dr. E. A. Schubert, mineralogist-geolo- 

 gist, Norfork & Western Railway; Dr. T. P. 

 Maynard, mineralogist-geologist. Central of 

 Georgia Ry. and Atlantic Coast Line Ry. ; Dr. 

 J. H. Watkins, geologist. Southern Railway. 



The motion-picture program will be one of 

 wide interest. The American Cyanamid Com- 

 pany and General Electric Company have 

 already arranged to supply their films. The 

 Bureau of Commercial Economics at Wash- 

 ington will supply many toward completing 



