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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
Engineering Foundation 
Report of Committee on Relations with National Research Council 
W. F. M. Goss, Chairman, Charles F. Rand, Silas H. Woodard, Frank B. Jewett Appointed 
at Meeting of Board, February 13, 1919. 
April 10, 1919. 
To Engineering Foundation Board: 
Your Committee on Relations with National Research Council, after several meetings and 
conferences, recommends the approval by the Foundation Board of the following proposals: 
1. Engineering Foundation, recognizing the desirability of maintaining close affiliation 
with National Research Council, proposes to collaborate with the Council "for the further- 
ance of research in science and engineering or for the advancement in any other manner of 
the profession of engineering and the good of mankind." 
2. To contribute to the above end, as part of the policy of Engineering Foundation, of&ce 
space in Engineering Societies Building has been engaged at the expense of Engineering 
Foundation, in addition to its own requirements, to serve as the New York ofi&ce of the 
Engineering Division of the National Research Council, beginning May 1, 1919, and the 
Foundation, having brought its office to an adjacent room, in addition proffers to the Council 
and its Engineering Division, without charge, such secretarial services as the Foundation 
may from time to time determine. 
3. National Research Council has proposed that its Engineering Division, comprising in 
all not less than 24 nor more than 29 members (of whom at least 7 and not more than 12 
shall be members at large), be so organized as to include at least 5 members of Engineering 
Foundation, and (including these 5) 17 members of the Founder Societies. Engineering 
Foundation accepts this proposal as well calculated to meet the mutual requirements of the 
Foundation and the National Research Council. 
4. Engineering Foundation proposes to collaborate with National Research Council in 
the activities of its Engineering Division and to make such appropriations of funds to aid 
specific undertakings of the Division as the Foundation may from time to time determine. 
5. It is understood that all publications relating to research work in which the Founda- 
tion shall have participated, will be issued under the joint names of the Engineering Founda- 
tion and the National Research Council. 
Respectfully, 
W. F. M. Goss. 
Chairman. 
Moved: That the policy recommended by the Engineering Foundation's Committee on 
Relations with the National Research Council in its report of April 10, 1919, is acceptable 
to the National Research Council and will receive its approval if adopted by the Founda- 
tion, and that in anticipation of the adoption of the report by the Engineering Foundation 
the National Research Council express its appreciation of the Foundation's cooperation 
with the Council in the promotion of engineering research. {Adopted.) 
Mr. Howe presented a recommendation of the Engineering Division that 
the number of members at large be increased from seven to twelve. 
{Approved) 
Moved: That the Engineering Division move its offices to New York at as early a date as 
possible after May 1, 1919. {Adopted.) 
Moved: That the material belonging to the National Research Council, with the excep- 
tion of letter files and drawings now located in the shops of the Carnegie Institute of Tech- 
nology at Pittsburgh, be turned over to that Institute with the request that they act as 
custodian of it untU called for by the National Research Council. {Adopted.) 
