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(d) To serve as an immediate auxiliary to the offices of the Military 

 and Naval Attaches in the collection, analysis, and compilation of scien- 

 tific, technical, and industrial research information. 



(e) To serve as an 'agency at the immediate service of the Com- 

 mander-in-Chief of the Military or Naval Forces in Europe for the 

 collection and analysis of scientific and technical research information, 

 and as an auxiliary to such direct military and naval agencies as may 

 be in use for the purpose; 



(f ) To serve as centers of distribution to the American expeditionary 

 forces in France and to the American naval forces in European waters 

 of scientific and technical research information, originating in the 

 United States and transmitted through the Research Information 

 Committee in Washington; 



(g) To serve as centers of distribution to our Allies in Europe of 

 scientific, technical, and industrial research information originating in 

 the United States and transmitted through the Research Information 

 Committee in Washington; 



(h) The maintenance of the necessary contact between the offices 

 in Paris and London in order that provision may be made for the 

 direct and prompt interchange of important scientific and technical 

 information; 



(i) To aid research workers, or collectors of scientific, technical, and 

 industrial information f^om the United States when properly accredited 

 from the Research Information Committee in Washington, in best 

 achieving their several and particailar purposes. 



6. The headquarters of the Research Information Conmiittee in 

 Washington is in the offices of the National Research Council, 1023 

 Sixteenth Street; the Branch Committees are located at the American 

 Embassies in London and Paris. 



