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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
Committee of three consisting of Messrs. Leuschner (Chairman), Bumstead, and Fulcher 
to make recommendations regarding abstracts, bibliographies, and monographs. 
Mr. Leuschner, the Acting Chairman of the Division of Physical Sciences 
reported that in accordance with action taken by the Executive Board of 
the Council on April 15, 1919, which provides for a joint committee of the 
Divisions of Chemistry and Chemical Technology and of Physical Sciences on 
a plan for the publication of critical tables of physical and chemical constants, 
Messrs. Bumstead and Millikan had been nominated by the Division to serve 
on the joint committee. {Approved) 
On recommendation of the Acting Chairman of the Division of Physical 
Sciences, it was further 
Moved: That the Division of Educational Relations be requested to cooperate with the 
Division of Physical Sciences and that of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, in formulating 
proper plans whereby a research survey in Physics and Chemistry might be made in educa- 
tional institutions and report back to the Division. {Adopted.) 
Moved: That the principle of appointing committees for the organization and stimulation 
of research in various subjects of physics be approved, with the provision that each member 
of the division become responsible for one or more subjects, which he shall choose in consulta- 
tion with the Acting Chairman of the Division. {Adopted.) 
Moved: That Mr. H. O. Wood be appointed Acting Secretary of the American Section of 
the proposed International Geophysical Union. {Adopted.) 
On recommendation of the Chairman of the Council it was 
Moved: That the Chairman of the Research Fellowship Board be a member of the Di- 
vision of Educational Relations. {Adopted.) 
Mr. Washburn, the Acting Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and 
Chemical Technology presented the following recommendations: 
That a Committee on Sewage Disposal be formed to undertake the following projects: 
1. To prepare a research survey of the field with special reference to possible methods of 
sewage disposal which will recover the valuable oils, fats, and fertilizer constituents of t^ie 
sewage; this survey to include statistical data and a discussion of the economic aspects of the 
subject as well as the scientific ones. 
2. To outline a series of basic research problems necessary to the further extension of 
our knowledge of the possibilities of recovering and utilizing the valuable constituents of 
sewage. 
3. To ascertain what researches are already in progress in the country in connection with 
this problem, and if it seems desirable, to prepare a list of sewage experiment stations or simi- 
lar organizations whose equipment and staffs may possibly be utilized in connection with 
any project of cooperative research which it seems wise to undertake. 
4. To prepare general plans and estimates of cost of establishing a sewage experiment sta- 
tion to study new methods of treating sewage for the recovery of its valuable constituents and 
to work in close cooperation with investigators now engaged or who in the future may be 
interested in undertaking physical, chemical, or bio-chemical investigations on various as- 
pects of the problems which present themselves. 
5. To investigate particularly the Rice Process and the Miles Process of sewage treatment 
and to make recommendations to the Division as to what action, if any, the Council might 
take with reference to research or development in connection with one or both of these 
processes. {Adopted.) 
