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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
American Mathematical Society 3 
U. S. Naval Observatory 1 
U. S. Nautical Almanac Office 1 
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1 
Messrs. Hale and Leuschner then presented the minutes of the organiza- 
tion meeting of the Section, as printed on page 193. 
Moved: That the Council of the National Academy of Sciences and the Executive Board 
of the National Research Council approve the provisional organization of the American 
Section of the International Astronomical Union. (Adopted.) 
Mr. Leuschner then presented the following recommendation of the Division 
of Physical Sciences: 
Moved: That in accordance with its offer to serve as the agency in Astronomy of the 
Council, the American Section of the International Astronomical Union be constituted a 
Section on Astronomy of the Division of Physical Sciences. {Adopted.) 
Mr. Leuschner reported that in harmony with a further resolution of the • 
International Research Council, a committee consisting of Messrs. R. S. 
Woodward, L. A. Bauer, William Bowie, A. O. Leuschner, Whitman Cross, 
and C. F. Marvin, had been appointed to consider the question of the tentative 
organization of an American Section of the proposed International Geo- 
physical Union, and that a report submitted by this committee to the Chair- 
man of the Council had been carefully considered by the Executive Com- 
mittee of the Division of Physical Sciences which had voted to submit the 
following recommendations: 
That the tentative formation of an American Section of the proposed In- 
ternational Geophysical Union be approved, with the provision that the 
subjects to be included and their grouping be determined by the Section after 
its organization. 
That the question of the formation of an American Geophysical Society be 
referred to the Section. 
Mr. Leuschner then presented the following provisional nominations on 
behalf of the Executive Committee of the Division of Physical Sciences for 
membership in the Section: 
Messrs. S. J. Barnett, Joseph Barrell, L. A. Bauer, H. B. Bigelow, W. R. 
Blair, E. H. Bowie, William Bowie, J. C. Branner, E. W. Brown, Whitman 
Cross, R. A. Daly, A. L. Day, J. F. Hayford, W. J. Humphreys, A. O. 
Leuschner, G. W. Littlehales, G. F. MacEwen, C. F. Marvin, Max Mason, 
A. G. McAdie, A. A. Michelson, R. A. Millikan, F. R. Moulton, H. F. Reid, 
Frank Schlesinger, R. B. Sosman, J. T. Watkins, H. O. Wood, R. S. 
Woodward. 
Moved: That these recommendations and provisional nominations of the Division of 
Physical Sciences be approved. {Adopted.) 
