manders; audits the report of the receipts and expenditures of the American National Red Cross.

Publications. The only publications by this office for distribution is the Annual Report of the Inspector General. This report relates to the inspection of the Army, and it is distributed free.

Correspondence.—Address requests for publications to Inspector General of the Army, Washington, D. C.

OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL.

Principal administrative officials.-The Adjutant General, Chief Clerk. General information and duties.-The Adjutant General is charged with the duty of recording, authenticating, and communicating to troops and individuals in the military service all orders, instructions, and regulations issued by the Secretary of War through the Chief of Staff, or otherwise; of preparing and distributing commissions; of compiling and issuing the Army Register and the Army List and Directory; of consolidating the general returns of the Army; of arranging and preserving the reports of officers of the Army detailed to visit encampments of militia; of compiling and maintaining a list showing the names of officers of the Army on detached service; of managing the recruiting service, and of conducting correspondence concerning the military service generally, including such as pertains to military training camps, rifle practice, the Officers' Reserve Corps, the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and the Enlisted Reserve Corps. He is also vested with the government and control, under the direction of the Secretary of War, of the United States Disciplinary Barracks and its branches, and all offenders sent thereto for confinement and detention; and is charged with the duty of issuing and recording orders from the War Department remitting or mitigating sentences of general prisoners who have been discharged from the military service, or honorably restoring them to duty. The Adjutant General is vested by law with the charge, under the Secretary of War, "of the military and hospital records of the volunteer armies and the pension and other business of the War Department connected therewith"; of publishing War Department regulations, manuals, and miscellaneous documents pertaining to the military service and distributing to the Army such publications, as well as those publications of a private nature as are useful in the Military Establishment; of obtaining, compiling, and keeping continually up to date all obtainable information as to the names, ages, addresses, occupations, and qualifications for appointment as commissioned officers of the Army, in time of war or other emergency, of men of suitable ages who, by reason of having received military training in civilian educational institutions or elsewhere, may be regarded as qualified and available for appointment as such commissioned officers, and of issuing certificates of enlistment in the Enlisted Reserve Corps. He also has charge of the historical records and business of the permanent Military Establishment, including all pension, pay, bounty, and other business pertaining to or based upon the military or medical histories of former officers or enlisted men, including the consideration of applications for the congressional medal of honor; for the benefits of the act of Congress approved April 27, 1916, establishing the Army and Navy medal-of-honor roll; for certificates of military service, certificates of merit, and certificates authorizing the purchase of campaign badges; and for removal of charges of desertion and the issue of discharge certificates to such soldiers finally charged with desertion as are entitled to relief under the terms of exIsting law. The archives of The Adjutant General's Office include all military records of the Revolutionary War in the possession of the General Government; the records of all organizations, officers, and enlisted men that have been in the military service of the United States since the Revolutionary War, in cluding those pertaining to the volunteer forces and the National Guard while In the active service of the United States; the records of the movements and operations of troops; the medical and hospital records of the Army; all reports of physical examination of recruits and identification records; the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; and a considerable collection of the Confederate records, including those pertaining to the legis lative, executive, and judicial branches of the Confederate Government.

Publications.-The Adjutant General's Office distributes the publications to the Army only and not to the general public. The Government Printing Office will furnish on application a list of Army publications for sale.

Mailing lists.-Under the printing and binding laws the publications of this office are distributed by The Adjutant General of the Army, but it is understood that there is no free mailing list maintained in his office.

Correspondence.-Correspondence relative to securing copies of publications should be addressed to The Adjutant General of the Army, Washington, D. C.

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL.

General administrative officials.-Provost Marshal General, Assistant to the Provost Marshal General, Chief of Division of Distribution, Chief Clerk. General information and duties.-This office was organized in order to conduct the selective draft, under the act of May 18, 1917, entitled, “An Act To authorize the President to increase the Military Establishment of the United States." Approved May 18, 1917.

Publications.-This office which was only organized during the summer of 1917 has no publications available for distribution except a copy of the act under which the bureau was created, Public No. 12, Sixty-fifth Congress, first sessions, H. R. 3545. The report of the Provost Marshal General to the Secretary of War on the first draft under the Selective Service Act, 1917.

OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL.

Principal administrative officials.—Quartermaster General, Chief Clerk. General information and duties.-The Quartermaster General, aided by assistants, provides means of transportation of every character, either under contract or in kind, which may be needed in the movement of troops and material of war. It furnishes all public animals employed in the service of the Army, the forage consumed by them, wagons and all articles necessary for their use, and the horse equipments for the Quartermaster Corps. It furnishes clothing, camp and garrison equipage, barracks, storehouses, and other buildings; constructs and repairs roads, railways, bridges; builds and charters ships, boats, docks, and wharves needed for military purposes; supplies subsistence for enlisted men and others entitled thereto; supplies articles for authorized sales and issues; furnishes lists of articles authorized to be kept for sale; gives instructions for procuring, distributing, issuing, selling, and accounting for all quartermaster and subsistence supplies; has charge of the supply and distribution of and accounting for funds for the payment of the Army, and such other financial duties as are specially assigned to it; and attends to all matters connected with military operations which are not expressly assigned to some other bureau of the War Department. The organization of a new bureau of the War Department to be called the Construction Division has recently been effected.

General publications.-Report on Fuel Tests and the Issue of Fuel, 1914, made under Direction of the Quartermaster General, by Capt. Frank T. Hines, Quartermaster Corps.

Specifications for Plumbing Fixtures, etc., Prepared by the Board on Uniform Plumbing Specifications for the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments, March 1, 1916.

Circular 13, Office of the Quartermaster General, 1916, Regulations Relating to the Examinations of Enlisted Men of the Army and Civilian Employees of the Quartermaster Corps, for Appointments to the Higher Enlisted Grades of the Quartermaster Corps.

Schedule of Land Grant and Bond-Aided Railroads of the United States. Published in Circular No. 16, Quartermaster General's Office, 1912. Contains list of railroads that were aided in their construction by grant of public land; a compendium of United States laws showing the conditions of the grants or subsidies; and a map showing the land-grant and bond-aided railroads and their principal connections.

Land-grant Percentage Circular. Published in Circular 17, Office of the Quartermaster General, 1915. This circular shows the land-grant percentage deductions applicable on freight and passenger traffic between all important points.

Routing Circular. Published in Circular 16, Office of the Quartermaster General, 1915. This circular shows the location of all military posts and stations in the United States, together with special instructions relative to issuance of bills of lading and transportation requests to such points.

Freight and Passenger Land-grant Equalization Agreements and Lists of Carriers Participating. Published in Circular No. 6, Office Chief of the Quartermaster Corps, 1913. This circular shows the nonland grant carriers that have agreed to equalize the lowest net rates available via land-grant lines on Government traffic.

Manual of Pack Transporation (Daly), 1910.
Army Transport Service Regulations.

Harbor Boat Regulations.

Uniform Regulations.

Published in Circular 7, Office Chief of the Quarter

master Corps, 1912. Transport Service.

Flag Circular.

Uniform Regulations.

Uniform Specifications.

Specifications and Conditions for Subsistence Supplies.

Manual for Army Bakers.

Manual for Army Cooks.

Manual of Army Horseshoers, 1912.

Rules and Regulations for the Office of the Quartermaster General.

Manual for the Quartermaster Corps, 1916, revised to December 17, 1917, Covers clearly and tersely all the activities of the Quartermaster Corps to that date. It includes the aforementioned circulars, Office of the Quartermaster General.

War Department Correspondence Files, prepared by cooperative action of the several bureaus of the War Department on the decimal system.

Official Table of Distances. This publication gives the distances between places within and without the United States, with notation of any land-grant or land-aided railroad distances obtaining between places within the United States. It constitutes the guide for disbursing offices of the Government generally in paying those travel allowances which are determinable by the number of miles of travel.

Army Pay Tables. Gives the rates of pay and allowances to officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States. It is prepared by the Quartermaster General of the Army, and editions are gotten out from time to time as the occasion demands.

Method of distribution of general publications.—Publications referred to above are distributed free to those in the military service, others should apply to Superintendent of Documents.

Annual and other periodical publications.-Monthly roster showing stations and duties of officers of the Quartermaster Corps of the Army. (Discontinued.) Semiannually this publication also includes data showing names and stations of quartermaster sergeants, senior grade, quartermaster sergeants, and lists of the United States national cemeteries, together with name of superintendent of each. (Discontinued.) The only annual publication of this office is the yearly report of the Quartermaster General, which is distributed free to those in the military service, and is not sold.

Maps.—Maps of lands, buildings, etc., at the military posts are prepared in this office. They are not for sale or general distribution outside of the military service, but copy of any map of a reservation or post can be furnished without charge to other departments of the Government.

Correspondence.-Requests by Government officials for publications should be addressed to the Adjutant General of the Army. Requests by the general public should be addressed to Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL.

Principal administrative officials.-Surgeon General, Chief Clerk. General information and duties.-The Surgeon General is the adviser of the War Department upon all medical and sanitary affairs of the Army. He has administrative control of the Medical Department; the disbursement of its appropriations; the designation of the stations of the commissioned personnel and civilian employees of the Medical Department, and the issuing of all orders and instructions relating to their professional duties; the recruitment, instruction, and control of the enlisted force of the Medical Department and of the Army Nurse Corps. He directs as to the selection, purchase, and distribution of the medical supplies of the Army. The Army Medical Museum, the library of the

Surgeon General's Office, medical supply depots, and the general hospitals are under his direct control.

General publications.—Occasional bulletins on professional subjects are prepared for information of medical officers. These bulletins, the editions of which are limited, are not intended for general distribution. They are supplied to medical officers of the Army, the Navy, the Public Health Service, and to some medical colleges and medical libraries. Thus far 10 bulletins have been published, viz:

No. 1. Photomicrographs of Spirochetae, Entamebae, Plasmodia, Trypanosomes, Leishmania. Negri Bodies, and Parasitic Helminths. January, 1913. No. 2. Papers by Officers of the Medical Corps, United States Army, read before the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography. January, 1913.

No. 3. Studies of Syphilis. June, 1913.

No. 4. Disease-Bearing Mosquitoes of North and Central America, the West Indies, and the Philippine Islands. November, 1913.

No. 5. Mental Disease and Defect in United States Troops.

March, 1914.

No. 6. The Prophylaxis of Malaria, with Special Reference to the Military Service. August, 1914.

No. 7. Studies in Roentgen-Ray Diagnosis. September, 1914.
No. 8. The Prevalence of Syphilis in the Army. June, 1915.

No. 9. Gunshot Roentgenograms. December, 1915.

No. 10. Officers of the Medical Reserve Corps, United States Army, Inactive List, with Post-office Addresses of Each. December, 1915. Nos. 1 and 5 editions are exhausted.

Method of distribution of general publications.-The publications noted above are distributed free while available. Copies are also for sale by the Superin

tendent of Documents, Government Printing Office.

Annual and other periodical publications.-(a) The Annual Report of the Surgeon General reviews the operations of the Medical Department; remarks upon the health of the Army; and contains statistics of morbidity, mortality, etc., of the Army. Distributed free.

(b) Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office comprises an author catalogue and subject index of medical books, journal articles, and pamphlets. The work was begun in 1880, and one volume has been published annually since. The first series (complete alphabet) was composed of 16 volumes, and the second series of 21 volumes, the latter being completed in 1916. Third series, volume 1, will be furnished in 1918. The first series is no longer available for issue, the edition having become exhausted some years ago, and no copies are now on hand of the earlier volumes of the second series. Copies of some of the volumes of the second series are for sale by the Superintendent of Documents at $2 per volume.

Correspondence.-Officer to whom requests for publications should be addressed: The Surgeon General, United States Army, Washington, D. C.

ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.

Principal administrative officials:-Curator, Librarian.

ARMY MEDICAL SCHOOL.

Principal administrative officials.-Commandant, Adjutant.

OFFICE OF ATTENDING SURGEON.

Principal administrative official.-Attending surgeon.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS.

Principal administrative officials.-Chief, seven Principal Assistants, Chief Clerk.

General information and duties.—The Chief of Engineers commands the Corps of Engineers, which is charged with reconnoitering and surveying for military purposes, including the laying out of camps, the preparation of military maps of the United States and its possessions, including cooperation with other Government and private mapping agencies, and in field operations, of maps of the theater of operations, selection of sites, and formation of plans and estimates for military defenses, construction and repair of fortifications and their acces

sories, the installation of electric-power plants and electric-power cable connected with seacoast batteries, and furnishing the necessary electrical supplies connected therewith; planning and superintending of defensive or offensive works of troops in the field; examination of routes of communications for supplies and for military movements; construction and repair of military roads, railroads, and bridges; and military demolitions. In time of war, within the theater of operations, the Corps of Engineers has charge of the location, design, and construction of wharves, piers, landings, storehouses, hospitals, and other structures of general interest; and of the construction, maintenance, and repair of roads, ferries, bridges, and incidental structures; and of the construction, maintenance, and operation of railroads under military control, including the construction and operation of armored trains.

The Corps of Engineers is also charged with the improvement of rivers and harbors, including examinations and surveys relating thereto; with works of flood control; with matters arising under the laws for the protection and preservation of navigable waters, including the establishment of harbor lines, anchorage grounds, and rules and regulations therefor; rules and regulations for canals owned, operated, or maintained by the United States, for any public navigable channel improved under authority of Congress, and for the navigation of streams on which the floating of loose timber and sack rafts is the principal method of navigation; also with the issuance of permits for the construction, alteration, maintenance, and operation of bridges, the granting of permits for structures or work in navigable waters; with the removal of wrecks and other obstructions to navigation; with questions pertaining to the supervision of the harbor of New York and adjacent waters to prevent obstructive and injurious deposits: with surveying and charting the Great Lakes, the natural navigable waters of the New York State canals, Lake Champlain, the Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between said lake and Lake Superior; with the preservation of Niagara Falls; with public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia; with the water supply of Washington, D. C.; with the construction of monuments and memorials; and with the construction of roads and bridges in the Yellowstone and Crater Lake National Parks, and in Alaska.

The Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors is a permanent body created by the river and harbor act of June 13, 1902. To it are referred for consideration and recommendation all reports upon examinations and surveys provided for by Congress, and all projects or changes in projects for works of river and harbor improvement upon which report is desired by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army. It is further the duty of the board, upon request by the Committee on Commerce of the Senate, or by the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives in the same manner, to examine and report through the Chief of Engineers upon any examinations, surveys, or projects for the improvement of rivers and harbors. In its investigations the board gives consideration to all engineering, commercial, navigation, and economic questions involved in determining the advisability of undertaking such improvements at the expense of the United States.

General publications.-Federal laws relating to the improvement of rivers and harbors; standards for dredging; laws regarding the bridging of navigable waters; drainage areas and surface levels of the Great Lakes; professional papers of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army; rules and regulations relating to the navigable waters of the United States with the exception of those for the Northern and Northwestern lakes and their connecting and tributary waters, which are printed in the United States Lake Survey Bulletins; laws for the protection and preservation of the navigable waters of the United States, etc.

Methods of distribution of general publications.-Either by purchase from the Superintendent of Documents or upon application to the Chief of Engineers, United States Army.

Annual and other periodical publications.-Bulletins and supplements relating to surveys of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes are published to supply the detailed descriptions of shore line and shoals, river and harbor improvements, results of surveys, magnetic determinations, and the particulars of constantly changing conditions on the Great Lakes which can not be fully or promptly shown by the Lake Survey charts. These documents are issued free to navigators and other chart purchasers. Supplements are published monthly during the navigation season (May to November).

Applications for bulletins or supplements may be made to any of the following offices: United States Lake Survey Office, Old Customhouse, Detroit, Mich.;