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Section C-2 (Transportation) 



Hartley Rowe, Chairman 

 Section C-3 (Mechanical and Electrical Equipment) 



R. D. Booth, Chairman 

 Section C-4 (Submarine Studies) 



J. T. Tate, Chairman 

 Section C-5 (Sound Sources) 



Harvey Fletcher, Chairman (physicist, Bell Telephone Lab- 

 oratories) 



Division D (Detection, Controls, Instruments) 

 K, T. Compton, Chairman 



A. L. Loomis, Vice-Chairman (physicist, Loomis Laboratories) 

 Section D-i (Detection) 



A. L. Loomis, Chairman 

 Section D-2 (Controls) 

 Warren Weaver, Chairman (mathematician. Rockefeller 

 Foundation) 

 Section D-3 (Instruments) 



G. R. Harrison, Chairman (physicist, M.I.T.) 

 Section D-4 (Heat Radiation) 



A. C. Bemis, Chairman (physicist, M.I.T.) 



Division E (Patents and Invention) 

 C. P. Coe, Chairman 



The Committee on Uranium, with L. J. Briggs, Director of the National 

 Bureau of Standards, as Chairman, reported directly to the Chairman 

 of NDRC. 



The names of division and section members and technical aides have 

 been omitted from the above account and will be omitted throughout be- 

 cause of space limitations. They are given the recognition they deserve in 

 the volumes reporting the activities of the divisions and sections. 



At its first meeting the Committee decided to operate primarily through 

 contracts. This decision was never modified, and at no time did the Com- 

 mittee establish its own laboratories or attempt to conduct scientific research 

 through its own staff. The preliminary investigations leading to the recom- 

 mendation of contracts normally originated with sections which communi- 

 cated their recommendations through the chairman of the appropriate 

 division to the Committee. The Committee reserved to itself the right to 

 decide whether and upon what terms it would enter into contracts. 



By formal resolution the Committee announced that it would make use 

 of existing agencies wherever possible and in particular the National 

 Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council in matters fall- 

 ing within their particular competence; it would act directly or create new 



