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additional allowance of $150 for uniforms in 

 time of war. 



4. Eighty-five nominations of electrical engi- 

 neers meeting the above requirements to be 

 made by each of the following agencies : 



(a) Naval Consulting Board. 

 (6) National Eesearch Council, 

 (c) American Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers. 



5. Upon receipt of the 255 nominations thus 

 made certain forms will be sent each nominee 

 to execute, and upon receipt of the executed 

 forms a Board of Naval Officers will select 100 

 for appointment. 



6. After appointments have been made the 

 officers so nominated and selected will be given 

 a month's training and instructions on shore in 

 naval methods, customs and regulations and 

 instructions. Pay will begin on date of ap- 

 pointment. 



7. Upon completion of the month's training 

 on shore they will be ordered to the active 

 fleet as electrical officers of ships for a period 

 of at least six months. After this period they 

 will be assigned to duty as the exigencies of 

 the service may demand, excepting such as 

 may be unfitted for the naval service. 



8. The utmost care will be exercised in the 

 nomination of these candidates as regards pro- 

 fessional ability, physical condition, tempera- 

 ment and bearing, to the end that each one 

 may qualify and not be subjected to incon- 

 venience and disappointment and that the 

 Navy may be benefited accordingly. 



9. The Provost Marshal General of the U. S. 

 Army has stated that any one subject to the 

 Selective Draft Law may be released from com- 

 pliance in order to accept an appointment as 

 officer in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force. 



10. Any one who now is in the Army, either 

 volunteer or drafted, may make application 

 but must obtain his discharge before he can 

 be appointed. This includes any one who has 

 been directed to appear before an exemption 

 board. Those now in the Naval Reserve are 

 eligible. 



11. Individual nominations will be received, 

 but any one making such should first assure 

 himself that his nominee will agree to serve if 



selected and give as much information as pos- 

 sible to assist the committees in making nomi- 

 nations to the Department. 



12. Any member of the electrical profession 

 who can meet the technical requirements and 

 who can submit proper credentials may make 

 direct application to the undersigned. 



13. To facilitate the work of selection, appli- 

 cants should submit, in time to reach the com- 

 mittees not later than Octoher 15, the follow- 

 ing detailed information on the attached 

 blank. 



14. Letters from at least three responsible 

 personal acquaintances should accompany each 

 application. 



15. From the nominations received the 

 undersigned will each select 85 names to be for- 

 warded to the Bureau of Navigation, Navy 

 Department, "Washington, D. C, from which 

 total 100 names will be finally selected for 

 commissions. 



Applications may be sent to any one of the 

 undersigned : 



Naval Consulting Boaed of the U. S., 



13 Park Row, New York, 

 National Research Council, 



33 West 39th Street, New York, 

 American Institute of Electrical 



Engineers, 

 33 West 39th Street, New York. 

 New York, 



October 3, 1917 



the psychological examination of 

 recruits 



As was announced in Science at the time, 

 a committee on psychology has been organ- 

 ized, with the approval of the council of the 

 American Psychological Association, by the 

 National Research Council. This committee 

 consists of J. McKeen Cattell, G. Stanley 

 Hall and E. L. Thorndike, from the National 

 Academy of Sciences; Raymond Dodge, S. I. 

 Franz and G. M. Whipple, from the American 

 Psychological Association, and C. E. Seashore, 

 J. B. Watson and R. M. Yerkes, from the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. Dr. Yerkes, this year president of 

 the American Psychological Association, 

 lately professor of comparative psychology at 



