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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
(2) Increase of knowledge relating to the fundamental principles of physics 
and chemistry, upon which the progress of all the sciences and the develop- 
ment of industry depend. 
(3) Creation of more favorable conditions for research in the educational 
institutions of this country. 
Administration. — The plan will be administered by the Research Fellov/ship 
Board of the National Research Council. This Board consists of six mem- 
bers appointed for terms of five years, and of the chairmen ex officiis of the 
Division of Physical Science and the Division of Chemistry and Chemical 
Technology of the National Research Council. The members of the Board are 
Henry A. Bumstead, Professor of Physics, Yale University. 
Simon Flexner, Director of Laboratories, Rockefeller Institution for Medical Research. 
George E. Hale, Director of Mount Wilson Observatory. 
Elmer P. Kohler, Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University. 
Robert A. Millikan, Professor of Physics, University of Chicago. 
Arthur A. No yes, Director of the Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology. 
Wilder D. Bancrget, Professor of Physical Chemistry, Cornell University. 
Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. 
, Chairman of the Division of Physical Sciences. 
Cooperation of Educational Institutions. — National Research Fellows will be 
permitted to conduct their investigations at institutions that will cooperate 
in meeting their needs. These needs differ widely from those of students 
seeking only instruction. Able investigators, actively engaged in productive 
research, are needed to inspire and guide the work of the Fellows. Research 
laboratories, adequately manned with assistants and mechanicians, and 
amply supplied with instruments, machine tools, and other facilities, are 
indispensable; and funds to provide supplies and to satisfy the constantly 
recurrent demands of research must be available. Above all, there must 
exist the stimulating atmosphere found only in institutions that have brought 
together a group of men devoted to the advancement of science through 
pursuit of research. 
The Research Fellowship Board expects to make arrangements by which 
educational institutions will associate the Research Fellows with their grad- 
uate departments and offer the most favorable conditions for the prosecution 
of their researches. 
The applicant will indicate one or more institutions at which, in his opinion, 
his research work can be conducted to the best advantage. 
Fellowship Appointments. — ^The appointments of National Research Fellows 
will be made only after careful consideration of the scientific attainments of 
all candidates, not only of those who apply on their own initiative, but also 
of those who are brought to the attention of the Fellowship Board by profes- 
sors in educational institutions and by other investigators throughout the 
country. In making the appointments much weight will also be given to the 
