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report at ouee to a local board for military 

 duty and thus be inducted into the military 

 service of the United States, immediately 

 thereupon to be discharged from the National 

 Army for the purpose of enlisting in the En- 

 listed Reserve Corps of the Medical Depart- 

 ment. With every such request must be in- 

 closed a copy of the order of the local board 

 calling him to report for physical examination 

 (Form 103), affidavit evidence of the status of 

 the applicant as a medical student or interne 

 and an engagement to enlist in the Enlisted 

 Eeserve Corps of the Medical Department. 



Upon receipt of such application with the 

 named inclosures the Surgeon General will 

 forward the case to the Adjutant General with 

 his recommendations. Thereupon the Adju- 

 tant General may issue an order to such in- 

 terne or medical student to report to his local 

 board for military duty on a specified date, in 

 person or by mail or telegraph, as seems most 

 desirable. This order may issue regardless of 

 the person's order of liability for military 

 service. From and after the date so specified 

 such person shall be in the military service of 

 the United States. He shall not be sent by 

 the local board to a mobilization camp, but 

 shall remain awaiting the orders of the Ad- 

 jutant General of the Army. The Adjutant 

 General may forthwith issue an order dis- 

 charging such person from the military service 

 for the convenience of the government. 



Three official copies of the discharge order 

 should be sent at once by the Adjutant Gen- 

 eral to the local board. Upon receipt of these 

 orders the local board should enter the name of 

 the man discharged on Form 164A and for- 

 ward Form 164A, together with two of the 

 certified copies of the order of discharge, to 

 the mobilization camp to which it furnishes 

 men. The authorities at the mobilization 

 camp will make the necessary entries to com- 

 plete Form 164A, and will thereupon give the 

 local board credit on its net quota for one 

 drafted man. 



SCIENTIFIC MEN AND NATIONAL SERVICE 



On August 15, the Editor of Science ad- 

 dressed the following letter to the Surgeon 

 General of the Army: 



I shall be under obligations to you if you are 

 able to tell me what steps are being taken to make 

 use in the medical service of the army of men who 

 are conscripted who are not physicians but have 

 scientific training that would enable them to render 

 greater national service than by serving in the reg- 

 ular army. If you are willing to make a statement 

 that could be printed in Science, it would assist 

 many scientific men who are at present doubtful as 

 to what they should do. 



The following reply, dated August 29, has 

 been received: 



In reply to your communication of August 15 

 requesting information relating to drafted men who 

 possess scientific training, I beg to advise you that 

 the Sanitary Corps of the United States Army, at- 

 tached to the Medical Department, will accept a 

 number of selected men who are not physicians but 

 who have attained professional standing in bac- 

 teriology, chemistry and the several branches of 

 engineering pertaining to sanitation. The Corps 

 was organized specially to secure the services of 

 skilled sanitarians having experience in both prac- 

 tical field work as well as those specially qualified 

 in the several scientific branches having a correla- 

 tion to the sanitary sciences. 



By order of the Surgeon General: 



C. L. Fdrbush, 

 Major, Medical Seserve Corps, 



United States Army 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Professoe Theodore Lyjian, of the depart- 

 ment of physics at Harvard University, has 

 received from the War Department a commis- 

 sion as captain in the aviation department of 

 the United States Signal Corps, and has been 

 ordered to report for active service in France. 

 Profesor Lyman has been since 1910 director 

 of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory at Har- 

 vard. 



Professor H. Gideon Wells, of the depart- 

 ment of pathology of the University of Chi- 

 cago, and head of the Otho S. A. Sprague 

 Memorial Institute, has been appointed a 

 member of the commission on behalf of the 

 American Red Cross to go to Roumania for 

 the purpose of investigating the conditions 

 there and planning for Red Cross assistance 

 in that field. He has been granted leave of 

 absence by the trustees until January, 191S. 



