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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1&17. 



ments, appointed upon the request of the General Munitions Board 

 and the other a committee on relations with State research councils, 

 appointed to consider and report upon desirable means of cooperation 

 between the Council and State research committees. 



OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL. 



George E. Hale, chairman; Charles D. Walcott, first vice chairman; Gano 

 Dunn, second vice chairman ; R. A. Millikan, third vice chairman and executive 

 officer ; Gary T. Hutchinson, secretary. 



Marston T. Bogert. 

 Russell H. Chittenden. 

 Edwin G. Conklin. 

 Gano Dunn. 

 George E. Hale. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



J. J. Carty, chairman. 



A"an H. Manning. 

 R. A. Millikan. 

 Arthur A. Noyes. 

 Raymond Pearl. 

 Michael I. Pupin. 



S. W. Stratton. 

 Victor C. Vaughan. 

 Charles D. Walcott. 

 Vniliam H. Welch. 



The following members and new committees have been added to 

 the council since my last report : 



LIST OF NEW MEMBERS. 



Carl L. Alsberg. 



Joseph S. Ames. 



Admiral Willam S. Benson. 



Walter B. Cannon. 



John M. Clarke. 



Howard E. Coffin. 



William M. Davis. 



Arthur L. Day. 



Henry H. Donaldson. 



William F. Durant. 



Rear Admiral Ralph Earle. 



John R. Freeman. 



Hollis Godfrey. 



Rear Admiral Robert S. Griffin. 



Herbert C. Hoover. 



Franklin H. Martin. 



John C. Merriman. 



Eliakim H. Moore. 



Frederick H. Newell. 



George O. Smith. 



Lewis B. Stillwell. 



Robert W. Wood. 



LIST OF COMJIITTEES. 



Military committee. 



Agriculture committee. 



Committee on Anthropology. 



Botany committee. 



Chemistry committee. 



Food committee. 



Committee on gases used in warfare. 



Committee on Industrial Research. 



Committee on Medicine and Hygiene. 



Committee on Optical Glass. 



Physiology committee. 



Committee on Relations with State 



Research Councils. 

 Aeronautics committee. 

 Anatomy committee. 



Astronomy committee. 



Committee on census of research. 



Engineering committee. 



Foreign service committee. 



Geography committee. 



Geology and paleontology connnittee. 



Mathematics committee. 



Committee on navigation and nautical 



instruments. 

 Physics committee. 

 Psychology committee. 

 Committee on research in educational 



institutions. 

 Zoology committee. 



