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Mr. Cross presented a report of progress of the Committee on Organization 
of Administration with the following recommendation: 
Moved: That William M. Davies and T. C. Mooney be appointed draftsmen at a salary 
of $125 a month from the date of their discharge from the army until further notice up to 
Tune 30, 1919. {Adopted.') 
Mr. Leuschner, as Chairman of the Committee on Program of the National 
Research Council for the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences 
submitted the following recommendation: 
Since all matters pertaining to the organization and activities of the National Research 
Council, which require action by the Academy, will be reported by the Council of the Acad- 
emy at the regular business sessions of the Academy, the committee recommends that at the 
open meeting of the Academy on Wednesday afternoon, April 30, Dr. Hale present an 
address on the past work and future plans of the National Research Council and that this 
address be followed by brief statements of the work of individual divisions by their chair- 
men and by especially invited representatives of research activities related to the war. 
{Approved.) 
The report of the Treasurer for the month ending March 31, 1919, was 
presented and placed on record. 
Mr. Cross reported for the Budget Committee that an arrangement had 
been made by which disbursements for the London and Paris offices of the 
Research Information Service would be made through the Council of National 
Defense in Washington, after discontinuance of its disbursing office in London, 
about June 1. 
Mr. Hale reported that in accordance with the resolution adopted March 
11, 1919, at the joint meeting of the Executive Board with the Council of the 
National Academy of Sciences, authorizing a project of which the main pur- 
pose is to promote fundamental research in Physics and Chemistry in educa- 
tional institutions primarily through the maintenance of a system of National 
Research Fellowships, a communication had been addressed by the President 
of the National Academy of Sciences and by the Chairman of the National 
Research Council to Dr. George E. Vincent, President of the Rockefeller 
Foundation, requesting an appropriation of $500,000, to be extended through 
a period of five years to enable the Council to carry out a project for pro- 
moting fundamental research in Physics and Chemistry in educational insti- 
tutions in the United States through the maintenance of a system of National 
Research Fellowships in Physics and Chemistry and through such supple- 
mentary features as may promote the broad purpose of the project and 
increase its efficiency and that in reply to this request the following communi- 
cation had been received from Mr. Edwin R. Embree, Secretary of the Rocke- 
feller Foundation: 
