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intervals the heads of scientific bureaus of the Government and in promoting 
effective cooperation between them and also between their several bureaus and 
the National Research Council. 
Mr. Hale presented a report on the organization of the Division of Foreign 
Relations and stated that in so far as has been determined at this time the 
representation on the Division would be as follows: 
Representing the State Department. Hon. William Phillips, Assistant Secretary of State. 
Representing the National Academy of Sciences. — Foreign Secretary, George E. Hale. 
Represeftting the American Philosophical Society. — Henry Fairfield Osborn. 
Representing the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. — A. A. Noyes. 
Mr. Noyes reported that the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Tech- 
nology had considered the report to the Executive Committee of the Inter- 
national Research Council from the Committee on International Cooperation 
in Chemistry appointed at the Paris Conference and recommended that it be 
concurred in by the Council with certain changes proposed by the Division. 
Moved: That the report of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology with 
reference to the proposed International Chemical Council be referred to the Division of 
Foreign Relations with the understanding that Messrs. Bancroft, Noyes, and Washburn be 
invited to meet with the Division for consideration of the report. 
In accordance with these resolutions the following recommendations in 
regard to the formulation of an International Chemical Council were approved. 
1. That an International Chemical Council be constituted; and that, if possible, arrange- 
ments be made for transferring the funds originally given to the International Association 
of Chemical Societies to this International Chemical Council. 
2. That the object of the International Chemical Council be to initiate and promote inter- 
national cooperation in chemistry; for example, by arranging: 
(a) for international cooperation in the preparation and publication of chemical literature. 
(b) for the appointment of international commissions to deal with special chemical ques- 
tions of standardization (such as atomic weights, nomenclature, etc.) 
(c) for international cooperation in the prosecution of special research projects. 
(d) for the calling of international chemical conferences for various purposes; and also 
for the organization of an International Chemical Congress with meetings at stated inter- 
vals, and including all of the scientific and technological branches of chemistry. 
3. That the International Chemical Council be constituted of delegates representing the 
leading chemical societies and other chemical research organizations of the several allied 
and neutral countries, these delegates to be selects as described in Paragraph 5. 
4. That the International Chemical Council be affiliated with the International Research 
Council; and that the National Research Council of each country or its National Academy 
when no Research Council has been created, act as the intermediary in communications 
between the International Chemical Council and the chemical organizations of that country, 
and arrange for the proper representation of those organizations in accordance with Para- 
graph 5. 
5. That the delegates from each country shall in general be chosen by the major chemical 
societies in that country, but that the number and distribution of such delegates and their 
voting strength within the delegation be determined initially by the National Research 
Council of that country, with the understanding that in countries where a National Research 
