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carried on with little or no expense on account of the proposed cooperation 
of the Explosives Section of the Bureau of Mines and other agencies. 
Moved: That the Division of Engineering be authorized to form a committee for the 
study of the relation of the Neumann bands in iron and steel to the rate of rupture as caused 
by explosions or other stresses. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That the Acting Chairman appoint a nominating committee to nominate a Chair- 
man, a Vice Chairman, and not more than ten members at large of the Executive Board of 
the National Research Council to be elected at a special meeting of the Executive Board on 
Wednesday, April 30, at 4 p.m. (Adopted.) 
Appointed: Messrs. Hale (Chairman), Noyes, and Millikan. 
Resolutions were proposed by the Treasurer and by the Acting Secretary 
of the Council to interpret the following former actions taken by the Execu- 
tive Board: 
Joint meeting of Board with Council of National Academy, February 11, 
1919: 
That the scale of annual salaries of the National Research Council be as follows: Chair- 
man of the National Research Council, $10,000; Chairmen of Divisions of Science and Tech- 
nology, $6,000, with an additional allowance of $1,000 for traveling expenses if they are sent 
abroad by the Council; Scientific Attaches, $6,000, until the Council is in a position to pay 
more. 
Joint Meeting of Board with Council of National Academy, March 11, 
1919: 
That the new Divisions be considered to be effective when the divisional nominations have 
been approved by the Executive Board, and that present officers of Divisions shall continue 
to serve until their successors shall have been elected. 
Interim Committee meeting, March 18, 1919: 
That the first meeting of each of the permanent Divisions, at which the Division is organ- 
ized and elects its officers and executive committee, be recognized as the annual meeting of 
the Division for this year. 
Moved: That the resolution of February 11 be amended by the addition of the words 
"It is understood that this scale of salaries is to go into effect under the new organization on 
July 1, 1919, provided that officers elected under the new organization prior to that time shall 
be entitled to the foregoing salaries from the date on which they enter upon their duties on 
full time subject to special action of the Executive Board." (Adopted.) 
Moved: That the resolution of March 11 be amended by the insertion of the words "under 
present salary arrangement" between the words "serve" and "until," and by the addition 
of the clause "and if they are elected to act for newly elected officers until the latter assume 
their duties, that they shall be entitled to the salaries provided for under the new organiza- 
tion subject to special action of the Executive Board." (Adopted.) 
Moved: That consideration of individual cases that may come under these amended reso- 
lutions be referred to the Interim Committee with power. (Adopted.) 
