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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
MINUTES OF JOINT MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE 
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WITH THE COUNCIL OF THE 
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
At the National Research Council Building, May 27, 1919, at 9.30 a.m. 
Present: Messrs. Bancroft, Carty,* Dunn, Flinn, Howell,* Hussey, Leusch- 
ner, Manning, Mathews, Merriam, Millikan, Pearl,* Ransome,* Walcott,* 
Washburn, Woods, Yerkes. 
Mr. Walcott in the Chair during the transaction of the business of the 
Council of the Academy. 
Mr. Merriam in the chair during the transaction of the business of the 
National Research Council. 
The minutes of the regular meetings of the Executive Board of the Na- 
tional Research Council of April 15 and May 13, of the special meeting of the 
Executive Board of May 8, of the joint meeting of the Executive Board of the 
National Research Council and the Council of the National Academy of 
Sciences of April 30, and of the Interim Committee of the National Research 
Council of Ma}^ 20, were approved as circulated, with certain amendm^ents 
which have been included in the minutes of these meetings as previously re- 
ported in the Proceedings. Matters concerning solely the National Academy , 
of Sciences are omitted from these minutes. Report on certain other matters 
which have not, as yet, been brought to a definite conclusion will be included 
in the minutes of future meetings. 
A report from the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National 
Academy of Sciences was presented by its chairman, Mr. Raymond Pearl. 
The following extract concerns the National Research Council: 
A special joint committee of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings on the one hand, 
and the National Research Council on the other hand, met and considered the general ques- 
tion of the future relations of the National Research Council and the Proceedings. The 
special committee was constituted as follows: For the Editorial Board, the Chairman, the 
Managing Editor, and Dr. Day; for the National Research Council, Doctors Hale, Merriam, 
and Yerkes. The general policy worked out by this joint committee was agreed to by the 
Editorial Board. It was in effect this, that the Proceedings of the National Academy of 
Sciences should become in a broader sense than had been true in the past, representative of 
the activities of the National Research Council, as well as of the National Academy It was 
understood that the National Research Council should offer to the Proceedings as official 
communications of the Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences such material, 
(intended for publication as bulletins of the Council) as the Council considered to be of perma- 
nent scientific value in the Proceedings. It was felt that in viev/ of the proposed enlarge- 
ment of the scope of the Proceedings to represent the activities of the National Research 
Council that some changes in the typography of the Proceedings might be desirable and 
it was agreed that changes looking to the improvement of the Proceedings in this regard 
would be inaugurated as soon as agreement on the matter had been reached between the con- 
ferees from the two interested bodies. 
Moved: That the report be referred to the Editorial Board with power. (Adopted.) 
* Members of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences . 
