NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
MEETING OF THE INTERIM COMMITTEE 
At the National Research Council Building. May 20, 1919, at 9.30 a.m. 
Present: Messrs. Bancroft, Hussey, Leuschner, Mathews, Merriam, Wash- 
burn, and Woods. 
Mr. Merriam, Chairman of the Council, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the meetings of the Interim Committee of April 22 and 
April 28 were approved as circulated.* 
In behalf of the committee consisting of Messrs. Walcott (Chairman), 
Cross, Dunn, and Merriam, appointed May 8 to carry out plans and to make 
arrangements to move the offices of the National Research Council to more 
suitable quarters, the Chairman reported favorably on the availability of 
the Navy League Building. 
Moved: That if the Navy League Building be leased for the use of the National Research 
Council a committee of three be appointed to consider apportionment of space for the de- 
partments of the Council. (Adopted.) 
Appointed: Messrs. Yerkes (Chairman), Leuschner, and Mathews. At the 
request of Mr. Yerkes, Mr. Mathews was subsequently designated as chair- 
man of the committee. 
Moved: That Mr. H. O. Wood be appointed Assistant to the Secretary of the National 
Research Council from May 16, 1919, to June 30, 1919. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That Mr. Albert L. Barrows the recently appointed Secretary of the Divisions of 
States Relations and Educational Relations of the National Research Council, be authorized 
to stop on his way to Washington from California to consult with a number of state scientific 
committees and with research committees in educational institutions. (Adopted.) 
Mr. Yerkes, as Chairman of the Committee on Organization of the Govern- 
ment Division, consisting of Messrs. Bancroft, Nichols, and Yerkes presented 
a report which was provisionally approved and later. May 27 and June 17, 
adopted by the Executive Board and the Council of the National Academy of 
Sciences in the following form: 
Organization of the Government Division 
1. The Division shall consist initially of 
(a) a representative of each of the following bureaus with the provision that 
other bureaus may be added: 
* The Interim Committee has power to act between meetings of the Executive Board. 
Heretofore its actions have been reported as part of the next following meeting of the Exec- 
utive Board. 
