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On behalf of the Division of Engineering, Mr. Howe offered the services of 
the Division to the National Research Fellowship Board in Physics and 
Chemistry. 
On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Division of Medical Sciences, 
Mr. Hussey recommended that a grant of $800 from the funds of the Division 
be made to support the work of making an analysis of the psychological rec- 
ords of medical officers taken during the period of mobihzation. 
(Approved.) 
Mr. Hale presented his resignation as Chairman of the National Research 
Council to take effect April 30, 1919. 
The resignation of the Chairman was accepted with regret and the following 
resolution was unanimously adopted: 
Resolved: That as a mark of appreciation of the constructive services, characterized by 
accomplishment as well as vision, rendered in the early organization and in the past years 
chairmanship of the National Research Council by George Ellery Hale the Council in accept- 
ing the resignation of the Chairmanship he has just presented hereby creates and bestows 
upon him in perpetuity the title of Honorary Chairman of the National Research Council 
and requests the presiding officer to appoint a committee of three to prepare and inscribe in 
the records a suitable minute more fully setting forth the services rendered and more fully 
expressing the sense of obligation of the National Research Council. 
The Chairman appointed Messrs. Dunn (Chairman), Noyes, and Walcott. 
The Meeting adjourned at 1 p.m. 
Paul Brockett, Assistant Secretary. 
NATIONAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY 
Supported by the Rockefeller Foundation 
General Statement. — The National Research Council has been entrusted by 
the Rockefeller Foundation with the expenditure of an appropriation of 
$500,000 within a period of five years for promoting fundamental research in 
physics and chemistry primarily in educational institutions of the United States. 
The primary feature of the plan is the initiation and maintenance of a 
system of National Research Fellowships, which are to be awarded by the 
National Research Council to persons who have demonstrated a high order of 
abihty in research, for the purpose of enabling them to conduct investigations 
at educational institutions which make adequate provision for effective prose- 
cution of research in physics or chemistry. The plan will include such sup- 
plementary features as may promote its broad purpose and increase its 
efficiency. 
Purposes in View. Among the important results which are expected to 
follow from the execution of the plan may be mentioned: 
(1) Opening of a scientific career to a larger number of able investigators 
and their more thorough training in research, thus meeting an urgent need of 
our universities and industries. 
