ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PHYSICS I9 



annum. It shall be the primary function of this officer to attend to 

 the financial and other administratiA'e work connected with the lab- 

 oratory. He is to be a man of scientific attainments and to be nomi- 

 nated by the Director. He shall not be eligible to the Council. This 

 executive officer shall liave three or more assistants: as, for instance, 

 an electrician, a foreman, laborers, etc., at an aggregate salary of 

 $5,000, to be appointed by himself. 



The executive officer shall assist the Council, whenever called 

 upon, in its administrative work. 



(il) CGundl. The general super\'ision of the work, and the de- 

 cision on all points beyond the jurisdiction of the Director and vitally 

 controlling the progress of the laborator\' shall rest with the Council 

 on physics. This Council of not less than three .shall be appointed by 

 the Trustees, and shall consi.st of persons of the same international 

 distinction already specified. They are to be scientists living in the 

 atmosphere of physical research, acquainted with and fruitfully con- 

 tributing to contemporaneous scientific investigation in physics. 



The members of the Council shall be appointed for a period of six 

 years, after which they ma\' be reappointed. The candidates for 

 non-resident councillorsh-ips shall be the non-resident research asso- 

 ciates hereinafter specified. 



One Councillor shall be nominated every two years, beginning 

 with 1904, by the following institutions or societies and in the order 

 specified: the nomination in 1904 is to be by the physicists in charge 

 and the permanent non-resident associates of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion; the nomination in I906 by the pure physicists of the National 

 Academy of Sciences of the United States; the nomination in I908 

 by the Physical Society of America; the nomination in I9IO by the 

 physicists in charge and permanent non-resident a.s.sociates of the 

 Carnegie Institution; and so on in rotation. 



The Council shall be empowered to increase its number by nomi- 

 nating not more than two (2) physicists of the grade of eminence 

 specified, and each such appointment shall be for a period of six (6) 

 years. 



Vacancies are to be filled by the institution or society which 

 nominated the councillor whose place has become vacant. 



But one of the Council shall be a resident of the Laboratory; 

 preferably the Director. 



The salary of the members of the Council not othervvi.se connected 

 with the laboratory' shall be $2,000 per annum, together with neces- 

 sary travelling and clerical expenses. 



