NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
453 
The Council of the Academy adjourned at 10.30 a.m. 
The Council of the National Academy of Sciences and the Executive Board 
of the National Research Council met in joint session at 10.35 a.m. 
Mr. Dunn, as Chairman of the Nominating Committee for members at 
large of the Executive Board, presented a report of progress, stating that four 
members-at-large of the Executive Board had already been nominated on April 
30 and had been appointed by the President of the Academy and that the 
Committee desired to recommend the appointment of the following additional 
members-at-large: Messrs. Van H. Manning, Director Bureau of Mines, S. 
W. Stratton, Director Bureau of Standards, and John J. Carty, Chief Engineer 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 195 Broadway. The Secre- 
tary was requested to cast the ballot for the names presented. The Secretary 
cast the ballot for the nominees and they were declared elected for recommend- 
ation for appointment by the President of the National Academy of Sciences 
to membership in the Council. Mr. Dunn stated that five additional mem- 
bers at large remained to be nominated and that the Committee had in mind 
to nominate only three of the remaining five in the immediate future. 
Moved: That the expenses of Mr. Albert Barrows incident to visiting various state scienti- 
fic committees and research committees in educational institutions on his way to Washing- 
ton, be paid from the funds of the Division of Educational Relations, and that Mr. Barrows' 
salary begin with his services to the Council in this connection. {Adopted.) 
Moved: That one thousand (1000) copies of the War Organization of the National Research 
Council pamphlets be printed. {Adopted.) 
In behalf of the Research Fellowship Board Mr. Leuschner, Acting Secre- 
tary of the Board, reported the following appointments to National Research 
Fellowships for the ensuing year : 
E. F. Barker (Physics) E. Russell Bichowsky (Chemistry) 
A. E. Caswell (Physics) Emmet K. Carver (Chemistry) 
F. E. E. Germann (Physics) W. D. Rodebush (Chemistry) 
Leonard B. Loeb (Physics) Geo. Scatchard (Chemistry) 
George P. Paine (Physics) Warren C. Vosburgh (Chemistry) 
Robert A. Patterson (Physics) Lansing S. Wells (Chemistry) 
Mr. J. C. Merriam, Chairman, made the following announcement: 
That he had continued the original Committee on Nominations of officers 
and members of the Executive Board, Messrs. Hale, Millikan, and Noyes, 
for the nomination of three vice chairmen and that this committee had made 
the following nominations: 
First Vice Chairman— Mr. C. D. Walcott 
Second Vice Chairman — Mr. Gano Dunn 
Third Vice Chairman— Mr. R. A. Millikan 
Moved: That the Secretary cast the ballot for Messrs, C. D, Walcott, Gano Dunn, and R. 
A. Millikan for First, Second and Third Vice Chairmen respectively, of the National 
Research Council. {Adopted.) 
