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assistant, and further requests that Dr. Olive Swazey of the Department of Zoology at the 
University of California be appointed at a salary of $2100 per annum and traveling expenses 
from the University of California to Hoboken. The Executive Committee of the Medical 
Division recommends this appropriation for one year. 
A grant of $500 has been approved to support investigations on measles now in progress 
at Camp Devens conducted by Dr. Sellards. This amount is to be paid to Colonel F. F. 
Russell to be expended at his discretion. 
Moved: That the above recommendations of the Division of Medical Sciences be 
approved. (Adopted.) 
Mr. Hale moved: That the President of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, or a representative of the Association, be made ex-officio a member of the Execu- 
tive Board. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That the Executive Board of the National Research Council recommend to the 
Council of the National Academy of Sciences that authority be given for the inclusion of 
the following as a Section in the Plan of Organization of the National Research Council. 
Article VIII — Amendment of the Organization 
Section 1. This organization may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the Council of the 
National Academy of Sciences at any stated meeting, provided that notice of the proposed 
amendment has been given to each member of the Council of the National Academy at 
least thirty days in advance of the stated meeting. (Adopted.) 
The meeting adjourned at 4 p.m. 
Paul Brackett, Assistant Secretary. 
ORGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
PREAMBLE 
The National Academy of Sciences, under the authority conferred upon it 
by its charter enacted by Congress, and approved by President Lincoln on 
March 3, 1863, and pursuant to the request expressed in an Executive Order 
made by President Wilson on May 11, 1918, hereto appended, adopts the 
following permanent organization for the National Research Council, to re- 
place the temporary organization under which it has operated heretofore. 
ARTICLE I. PURPOSE 
It shall be the purpose of the National Research Council to promote re- 
search in the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences, and in the 
application of these sciences to engineering, agriculture, medicine, and other 
useful arts, with the object of increasing knowledge, of strengthening the 
national defense, and of contributing in other ways to the public welfare, as 
expressed in the Executive Order of May 11, 1918. 
ARTICLE II. MEMBERSHIP 
Section 1. The membership of the National Research Council shall be 
chosen with the view of rendering the Council an effective federation of the 
principal research agencies in the United States concerned with the fields of 
science and technology named in Article I. 
Section 2. The Council shall consist of 
