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Moved: That an appropriation of $500 be made to the Executive Board to cover the ex- 
pense of preparation of an annotated analytical bibliography, according to the scheme pro- 
posed by Mr. Fulcher, of the literature dealing with the effects of over-strain and blue heat 
on steel. {Adopted.) 
Moved: That in view of Mr. Hale's desire to be relieved of his duties as Chairman of the 
Council at an early date Mr. J. C. Merriam be elected Acting Chairman as from March 15. 
{Adopted.) 
Moved: That there be constituted an Interim Committee of the Executive Board which 
shall include in its membership the Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer of the Council and 
the Chairman (or in his absence the Vice-Chairman) of each of the Divisions of the Council; 
that the Chairman of the Council shall be Chairman of the Interim Committee; and that 
this Interim Committee shall act for the Executive Board between meetings of the latter. 
{Adopted.) 
Moved: That reports of the conferences of members of the Council with research represen- 
tatives of Middle West and Pacific Coast institutions, held at Chicago and at Berkeley, Cali- 
fornia, on February 1st and March 8th, respectively, be incorporated in the minutes of the 
Council. * {Adopted.) 
Moved: That an address entitled 'Industrial Research' by Dr. Frank B. Jewett, which 
was presented before the Royal Canadian Institute, Toronto, February 8, 1919, be pub- 
lished as a bulletin of the National Research Council. {Adopted.) 
The Chairman of the Council presented a communication from the Secre- 
tary of the General Education Board, informing the Council that the Board 
had made an appropriation of $25,000 for the purpose of a study to be con- 
ducted under the auspices of the National Research Council by Mr. Robert 
M. Yerkes and Mr. Lewis M. Terman for the purpose of developing intel- 
ligence tests for the mental rating of school children, payments to be made to 
the National Academy of Sciences. 
Moved: That the National Research Council express its appreciation of the action of the 
General Education Board in appropriating a sum of $25,000 for the purpose of developing 
intelligence tests for the mental rating of school children, and extend a vote of thanks for 
this gift. {Adopted.) 
Moved: That the sum of $450, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated 
from the funds available for the Engineering Division to cover the transportation expenses 
of certain members of the Committee on the Use of Tellurium and Selenium attending a 
meeting of the Committee to be held in Buffalo. {Adopted.) 
Mr. Washburn presented a brief report of the initial meeting of the new 
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology held in Washington, March 
21 and 22. 
Moved: That the American Ceramic Society be invited to form with the Division a joint 
Committee on Ceramic Research. {Adopted.) 
Moved: That the Committee on Synthetic Drugs be continued; and that the Committee 
on Explosives Investigations be continued temporarily. {Adopted.) 
Moved: That the Council authorize the sending of a delegate to a meeting called by the 
Societe de Chimie Industrielle to be held in Paris April 14, at which certain international 
chemical questions will be discussed and that the selection of this delegate be left to the 
Chairman and Chairman-elect of the Division, and the Chairman of the National Research 
Council. {Adopted.) 
