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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1917. 



instruments, 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, scond vice chairman ; R. A. Millikan, third vice chairman and executive 

 officer : Cary T. Hutchinson, secretary. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



J. J. Carry, Chairman. 



S. W. Stratton. 

 Victor C. Vaughan. 

 Charles D. Walcott. 

 William H. Welch. 



Marston T. Bogert. Van H. Manning. 



Russell H. Chittenden. R. A. Millikan. 



Edwin G. Conklin. Arthur A. Noyes. 



Gano Dunn. Raymond Pearl. 



George E. Hale. Michael I. Pupin. 



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 William 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. W T ood. 



LIST OF COMMITTEES. 



Military committee. 



Agriculture committee. 



Committee on Anthropology. 



Botany committee. 



Chemistry committee. 



Food committee. 



< Vuninittee 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. 



(lei igraphy committee. 



Geology and paleontology committee. 



Mathematics committee. 



Committee on navigation and nautical 



instruments. 

 Physics committee. 

 Psychology committee. 

 Committee on research in educational 



institutions. 

 Zoology committee. 



