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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
EXTRACT OF MINUTES OF JOINT MEETINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD 
OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WITH THE COUNCIL 
OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
At the National Research Council Building 
Meeting of January 14, 1919, at 10 a.m. 
Present: Messrs. Abbot,* Bogert, Clevenger, Cross,* Hale,* Howe, 
Howell,* Hussey, Johnston, Mendenhall, Michelson,* Millikan, Noyes,* 
Russell, Walcott,* Welch, Woods, Yerkes, and by invitation, Leuschner 
and Nichols. 
Mr. Hale presided during the first part of the meeting while the business of 
the National Research Council was under consideration. 
The minutes of the meetings of the Executive Board, December 21, 1918, 
and of the Interim Committee, December 31, 1918, and January 6-7, 1919, 
were approved as circulated. 
Mr. Hale presented a report of the Committee on the Patent Office, ap- 
pointed December 4, 1917, L. H. Baekeland, Acting Chairman. The report 
was duly considered and approved and it was 
Moved: That the necessary funds be set aside for printing the report of the Committee 
on the Patent Office in full. {Adopted.) 
The Chairman presented the resignation of Mr. S. L. G. Knox as Scientific 
Attache to the Embassy in Rome, in charge of the Research Information 
Service in Italy and it was 
Moved: That the resignation of Mr. S. L. G. Knox be accepted and that the National 
Research Council express its appreciation of the important services which he has rendered 
to the Council and convey to him a vote of thanks. {Adopted.) 
Moved: That the Committee on Relations with Educational Institutions be increased to 
include as members Mr. S. P. Capen of the Bureau of Education, Mr. R. M. Yerkes, Mr. 
A. O. Leuschner, and Mr. H. E. Gregory. {Adopted.) 
The Chairman called upon Mr. Leuschner to state the situation as to the 
Smith-Howard Bill for the promotion of research in connection with educa- 
tional institutions, which is now under consideration by Congress. After 
discussion it was 
Moved: That a Committee of seven with full power to act be appointed by the Chairman 
to consider the whole question of a Bill in Congress to provide appropriations for research, 
and that the President of the National Academy of Sciences and the Chairman of the 
National Research Council be members of the Committee. {Adopted.) 
* Members of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences. 
