18 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1916. 



Prof. A. A. Michelson, director, Ryerson Physical Laboratory, University of 



Cliicago. 



Dr. Robert A. Millilcan, professor of physics, University of Chicago. 



Dr. Arthur A. Noyes, director, research laboratory of physical chemistry, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



Dr. Raymond Pearl, director, IMaine Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Prof. E. C. Pickering, director. Harvard College Observatory. 



Dr. Michael I. Pupin, professor of electro-mechanics, Columbia University. 



Mr. Charles F. Rand, president United Engineering Society. 



Prof. Theodore W. Richards, director of the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Labora- 

 tory, Harvard University. 



Mr. C. E. Skinner, director, research laboratory, Westinghouse Electric & 

 Manufacturing Co. 



Lieutenant Colonel George O. Squier, Chief of Aviation, U. S. Army. 



Dr. S. W. Stratton, Director U. S. Bureau of Standards. 



Mr. Ambrose Swasey, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, Chief Constructor U. S. Navy. 



Dr. Elihu Thomson, Swampscott, Mass. 



Dr. C. R. Van Hise, president of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. 



Dr. Victor Clarence Vaughan, director, medical research laboratory, Uni- 

 versity of Michigan. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Dr. William H. Welch, president of the National Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. W. R. Whitney, director of the research laboratory. General Electric Co. 



The council will be gradually enlarged by the addition of new 

 members who are to serve as chairmen of important committees or 

 who are otherwise to engage in some special work. 



To carry out the work of the council committees are being ap- 

 pointed, including {a) committee on rules and procedure; (5) com- 

 mittee on publication; (c) committee on research in educational 

 institutions to consider general plans for the promotion of research 

 in educational institutions and to arrange for local committees in 

 each institution; {d) committee on promotion of industrial research 

 with functions in the field somewhat similar to those of the preceding 

 committee; {e) committee on a national census of research to pre- 

 pare a national census of equipment for research, of the men engaged 

 in it, and of lines of investigation pursued in cooperating Govern- 

 ment bureaus, educational institutions, research foundations, and in- 

 dustrial research laboratories. It has also been decided to form joint 

 committees in various branches of science in cooperation with the 

 corresponding national scientific societies. 



THE LANGLEY AERODYNAMICAL LABORATORY. 



In view of the organization of the National Advisory Committee 

 for Aeronautics, provided for by act of Congress approved March 

 3, 1915, it has appeared unnecessary at present to proceed further 

 toward the permanent establishment of the proposed Langley labora- 



