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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD 
At the National Research Council Building, 
November 12, 1918, at 9.30 A. M. 
Present: Messrs. Cross, Howe, Johnston, Mendenhall, Merriam, Millikan, 
Pupin, Rous, Washburn, Woods and Woodward. 
In the absence of the Chairman of the Board Mr. Woodward, upon motion, 
served as temporary Chairman. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting of October 8, and of the intervening 
meetings of the Interim Committee, having been circulated by mail, were 
approved. 
The following letter from the President of the National Academy of Sci- 
ences, Mr. Walcott, was read for the information of the Executive Board: 
It gives me pleasure to inform you that the plan for International Organization of Re- 
search presented by Dr. Hale to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences, and ap- 
proved by that body at the Annual Meeting of. 'the Academy in April, 1918, has been unan- 
imously adopted by the Inter-Allied Conference, which was held under the auspices of the 
Royal Society of London, on October 9, 1918. 
May I request/ that you bring this matter to the attention of the members of the Execu- 
tive Board of the Research Council at its next meeting? 
The Acting Chairman of the Council presented the question of the status 
of the war organization of the Council in view of the fact that the war has 
been brought practically to an end, and Mr. Pupin 
Moved: That a Committee of five be appointed to consider the problems of 
reorganization of the Council under present conditions, and to make recom- 
mendations. Adopted. 
The Acting Chairman of the Council appointed the following Committee: 
Messrs. Merriam (Chairman), Howe, Johnston, Millikan, Pupin. 
Engineering Division. — Moved: That Mr. George H. Clevenger, of the 
Bureau of Mines, be appointed Chairman of the Section on Metallurgy of 
the Division of Engineering, at a salary at the rate of $5,000 per year, the 
appointment to be during the present fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. 
Adopted. 
The meeting adjourned at 11.00 a.m. 
Paul Brockett, Assistant Secretary. 
General statements as to recent activities of some of the Divisions of the 
Council are appended. 
