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Council shall not have been organized the National Academy itself shall fulfill this function 
until the National Research Council is organized. 
6. That upon all questions voted upon by the International Chemical Council the number 
of votes cast by the various countries shall be determined by their population as follows: 
Countries of less than 5 million inhabitants have 1 vote. 
Countries between 5 and 10 million inhabitants have 2 votes. 
Countries between 10 and 15 million inhabitants have 3 votes. 
Countries between 15 and 20 million inhabitants have 4 votes. 
Countries over 20 million inhabitants have 5 votes. 
The inhabitants of colonies and possessions are included in the population of the country 
to which they belong, according to the indications of its Government. Each self-governing 
Dominion has the same number of votes as an independent country according to the above 
scale. 
7. That the International Chemical Council, as soon as it shall be organized, shall elect 
an Executive Committee of seven members, which shall exercise such functions as may be 
assigned to it by the Council. The Executive Committee shall appoint an Executive Secre- 
tary, who shall have charge of correspondence and of the central office of the Council. 
8. That until the International Chemical Council shall be organized and its Executive 
Committee appointed, the Committee on International Cooperation in Chemistry appointed 
by the Paris Conference shall act as a provisional Executive Committee for purposes of organ- 
ization. Its membership shall, however, be increased by the addition of four members repre- 
senting industrial chemistry, to be appointed respectively by the Royal Society of London, 
the Academie des Sciences de France, the Academia dei Lincei, and the National Research 
Council of the United States. This Committee shall elect a chairman and a secretary; but 
the latter need not be a member of the Committee. 
Mr. Leuschner reported that the Committee on the Enlargement of the 
Functions of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, appoint- 
ment of which had been previously authorized by the Interim Committee, 
was constituted as follows: S. W. Stratton, Chairman, Comfort A. Adams, 
Joseph S. Ames, Gano Dunn, Henry M. Howe, Edward B. Hyde, Albert A. 
Michelson, Ernest F. Nichols, Edward B. Rosa, and the Chairman of the 
Division of Physical Sciences — ex officio and that this Committee had sub- 
mitted the following report: 
Whereas, practically all scientific investigations and much technological work required 
uniformity in fundamental standards of measurement, values of physical constants, and 
methods of measurement; and 
Whereas, there is at present no provision for bringing about this uniformity other than 
that of the Treaty establishing the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, — charged 
with matters pertaining to length and mass only. 
It is Recommended, — that the Treaty providing for the establishing and maintenance 
of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures be amended to provide for the follow- 
ing functions: 
1. To serve as a depository for such standards as require the preservation of prototypes 
at a central place, and to make comparisons between these prototypes and the national 
prototypes of countries subscribing to the Treaty. 
2. To establish international values of constants by the correlation of data produced at 
the various national and other scientific laboratories, such as the mechanical equivalent of 
heat, melting points, boiling points, gravitation constant, fundamental electrical units, 
velocity of light, etc. 
