EEPORT OP THE SECRETARY. 17 



organize the scientific resources of educational and research institu- 

 tions in the interest of national security and welfare." The President 

 accepted the offer and requested the academy to proceed with the 

 organization. An organizing committee was accordingly appointed, 

 and on June 19 the council of the academy, acting upon recommenda- 

 tions of that committee, voted — 



That there be forrcGd a National Research Council whose purpose shall be to 

 bring into cooperation existing governmental, educational, industrial, and other 

 research organizations with the object of encouraging the investigation of 

 natural phenomena, the increased use of scientific research in the development 

 of American industries, the employment of scientific methods in strengthening 

 the national defense, and such other applications of science as will promote the 

 national security and welfare. 



That the council be composed of leading American investigators and engineers, 

 representing the Army, Navy, Smithsonian Institution, and various scientific 

 bureaus of the Government ; educational institutions and research endowments ; 

 and the research divisions of industrial and manufacturing establishments. 



After the close of the fiscal year the National Eesearch Council 

 was fully organized, the President of the United States appointing 

 the representatives of the Government and authorizing the appoint- 

 ment of other members by the president of the National Academy of 

 Sciences. 



OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Chairman, George E. Hale; vice chairmen, Charles D. Walcott and Gano 

 Dunn ; secretary, Gary T. Hutchinson ; executive committee, John J. Carty 

 (chairman), William H. Welch (ex officio), George E. Hale (ex officio), Edwin 

 G. Conklin, Gano Dunn, Arthur A. Noyes, Raymond Pearl, Michael I. Pupin, 

 S. W. Stratton, V. C. Vaughan (others to be appointed). 



MEMBERS OF NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. 



Dr. L. H. Baekeland, Yonkers, N. Y. 



Dr. Marston T. Bogert, professor of organic chemistry, Columbia University. 



Dr. John A. Brashear, Allegheny, Pa. 



Dr. John J. Carty, chief engineer, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. 



Dr. Russell H. Chittenden, director, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. Edwin G. Conklin, professor of zoology, Princeton University. 



Dr. John M. Coulter, professor of botany, University of Chicago. 



Brigadier General William Crozier, Chief of Ordnance, U. S. Army. 



Mr. Gano Dunn, president The J. G. White Engineering Corporation. 



Dr. Simon Flexner, director. Rockefeller Medical Institute. 



Ma.ior General William Crawford Gorgas, Surgeon General, U. S. Army. 



Dr. W. F. M. Goss, dean of engineering. University of Illinois. 



Dr. George E. Hale, director, Mount Wilson Solar Observatory. 



Mr. Clemens Herschel, president American Society of Civil Engineers. 



Prof. William H. Holmes, head curator of anthropology. United States Na- 

 tional Museum. 



Dr. W. W. Keen, president American Philosophical Society. 



Mr. Van H. Manning, Director U. S. Bureau of Mines. 



Prof. Charles F. Marvin, Chief United States Weather Bureau. 



