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puted. Any alteration of the army ration in 

 the future will be based only upon the facts as 

 thus gathered. There is every promise that 

 this service will prove to be of strategic im- 

 portance in the control of the health and wel- 

 fare of the troops from the place of their 

 mobilization to the battle front. 



PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF RECRUITS 



Appointments for psychological examiners 

 in the National Army Cantonments, Camp 

 Lee, Petersburg, Va.; Camp Dix, Wrights- 

 town, N. J. ; Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass. ; Camp 

 Taylor, Louisville, Ky., have been made as 

 follows : 



Major, Robert M. Yerkes, Surgeon General's 

 Office, in charge of psychological work. Lieu- 

 tenant Arthur S. Otis in charge of statistical 

 work in tke Surgeon General's Office, Section 

 of Psychology. 



Lieutenants Clarence S. Yoakum, Marion R. 

 Trabue, Jos. W. Hayes, and Wm. S. Foster to 

 serve as chief psychological examiners. 



Lieutenants Geo. O. Ferguson, Jr., Walter 

 S. Hunter, Edw. S. Jones, Karl T. Waugh, 

 Heber B. Cummings, Edgar A. Doll, John 

 T. Metcalf, Herschel T. Manuel, Carl C. 

 Brigham, John E. Anderson, Horace B. Eng- 

 ish and Harold A. Richmond to serve as psy- 

 chological examiners. 



In addition to the above commissioned ex- 

 aminers, the following have been given civil 

 appointment for psychological examining: 

 Doctors Leo J. Brueckner, Donald G. Pater- 

 son, A. S. Edwards, Rudolph Pintner, Benj. 

 F. Pittenger, Ben. D. Wood, John W. Bridges, 

 J. Crosby Chapman, John K. Norton, Edward 

 C. Rowe, J. David Houser, C. P. Stone, Thos. 

 H. Haines, Norbert J. Melville, H. P. Shum- 

 way, Chas. H. Toll, Thos. M. Stokes, C. C. 

 Stech, John J. B. Morgan, Raymond H. 

 Wheeler, Harold C. Bingham, Carl R. Brown, 

 Chester E. Kellogg, Ralph S. Roberts, and D. 

 L. Hoppinginer. 



SECTION OF ZOOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN 

 ASSOCIATION 



The annual meeting of Section F (Zoology) 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science will be held at Pittsburgh, 



Pa., during Convocation Week on Saturday, 

 Monday and Tuesday, December 29, 31 and 

 January 1, under the presidency of Professor 

 Herbert Osborn, of the Ohio State University. 

 The opening sessions on Saturday will be de- 

 voted to the reading of technical papers, the 

 titles of which together with brief abstracts 

 of not over three hundred words must be in 

 the hands of the secretary not later than De- 

 cember 10 in order to appear on the printed 

 program. A joint smoker with the American 

 Society of Naturalists is planned for Satur- 

 day evening. 



The address of the retiring vice-president 

 will be read by Professor George Howard 

 Parker, of Harvard University, at the morn- 

 ing session on Monday, December 31. The 

 "General Interest Session" will be held on 

 Monday afternoon and will consist of a sym- 

 posium on " The Contribution of Zoology to 

 Human Welfare." Papers on this important 

 subject will be read by Doctor Hugh M. Smith, 

 U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries; Dr. L. O. 

 Howard, chief entomologist of the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture; Dr. Charles Ward- 

 ell Stiles, U. S. Public Health Service; and 

 Professor Maurice A. Bigelow, director of the 

 School of Practical Arts of Columbia Uni- 

 versity. The sessions of Tuesday, January 1, 

 will be held in conjunction with the American 

 Society of Natiu-alists and will close with the 

 Naturalists' dinner on Tuesday evening. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Surgeon General of the army. Major 

 General William C. Gorgas, has established a 

 board to collect material for the medical and 

 surgical history of American participation in 

 the European War. This board is composed 

 of Colonel C. C. McCulloch, librarian of the 

 Army Medical Library; Major F. H. Garrison, 

 assistant librarian in direct charge of work on 

 the history, and Captain John S. Fulton, sec- 

 retary of the Maryland State Board of Health, 

 who will have charge of the statistical work. 



Dr. Veranus A. Moore, dean of the veteri- 

 nary college of Cornell University, has been in 

 Washington, serving as an adviser of Surgeon 

 General Gorgas in the organization of the 



