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limited number of the medical reserve and 

 perhaps other medical o£5cers for the care of 

 those peculiar wounds of the face and jaws 

 characteristic of trench warfare. Both sur- 

 geons and dentists will enter upon this work 

 and will eventually constitute a section of the 

 staff in every base hospital and evacuation 

 hospital in connection with the army. The 

 plan involves the training and placing of a 

 sufficient number to care for the face injiu-ies 

 presented among a million men in hospitals. 

 Major Vilray Papin Blair, of St. Louis, has 

 been called to Washington to organize and 

 direct this important work. The first school 

 has its headquarters at the Washington Uni- 

 versity Medical School, which at the beginning 

 of the war offered to the government the 

 facilities of its new laboratories, hospitals and 

 clinics, and the services of its faculty. In- 

 structors have been chosen chiefly from the 

 faculties of Washington University Medical 

 School and St. Louis University School of 

 Medicine and the special curricuJimi has been 

 adopted. The latter offers intensive work in 

 anatomy, operative surgery, sepsis, anesthesia 

 and dentistry. The first course will begin on 

 Monday, October 15, and will extend over a 

 period of three weeks to be repeated until the 

 number of men desired has been reached. 

 The surgeon general has designated for dean 

 Dr. E. J. Terry, professor of anatomy in the 

 Washington University Medical School, and 

 for chairman of the curriculum committee. 

 Dr. Hanau W. Loeb, dean of the St. Louis 

 University School of Medicine; Dr. Ernest 

 Sachs, associate professor of surgery at Wash- 

 ington University Medical School, to serve as 

 secretary of the council. 



THE RED CROSS MEDICAL SERVICE 



The establishment of a bureau of medical 

 service of foreign commissions to give prompt 

 and expert attention to the requests for medi- 

 cal and surgical supplies received from Amer- 

 ican Red Cross commissions now at work in 

 France, Russia, Roumania, Italy, and Serbia 

 is announced by the Red Cross war coimcil. 

 Requests for additional doctors and nurses for 

 service with these commissions, particularly 



in France and Roimiania, will also be handled 

 by the new bureau. 



In cooperation with the medical advisory 

 board, the bureau will also render assistance 

 in the solving of many new pathological prob- 

 lems constantly arising out of the war. 



Dr. R. M. Pearce, of Philadelphia, pro- 

 fessor of research medicine at the University 

 of Pennsylvania, is director of the new 

 bureau : Dr. W. C. Bailey, of Boston, associate 

 director; and Dr. Ralph Pemberton, of Phila- 

 delphia, assistant. The secretary of the 

 bureau is John Gilbert, of Philadelphia. 



The growth of the work of all the Red Cross 

 commissions in European countries during 

 the last two months made the establishment 

 of this bureau necessary. Drugs and medical 

 supplies to the value of more than $500,000 

 have already been shipped to Russia, while 

 three detachments of child specialists have 

 been recruited throughout the country for 

 service with the new children's bureau of the 

 Red Cross in Prance. The bureau is furnish- 

 ing bacteriologists, chemists, surgeons, and 

 others for Red Cross establishments in Paris. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The chairman of the committee on policy 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science has requested Professor 

 Cattell to continue to edit Science until the 

 questions involved have been carefully con- 

 sidered by the committee on policy and the 

 council of the association. 



At the annual meeting of the national ad- 

 visory committee for aeronautics held recently, 

 Dr. W. F. Durand was reelected chairman 

 and Dr. S. W. Stratton was reelected secre- 

 tary. Members of the executive committee 

 were elected as follows: Dr. Joseph S. Ames. 

 Dr. Charles F. Marvin, Dr. Michael I. Pupin, 

 Major General George 0. Squier, United 

 States Army, Dr. S. W. Stratton, Rear Ad- 

 miral D. W. Taylor, United States Navy, and 

 Dr. Charles D. Walcott. At the organization 

 meeting of the executive committee Dr. 

 Charles D. Walcott was elected chairman and 

 Dr. S. W. Stratton, secretary. Existing sub- 

 committees were continued, and an editorial 



