NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
457 
On May 23 the Acting Chairman of the Council presented to the Third Assistant Secretary 
of State the substance of these resolutions with an estimate of the expense of continuing the 
service of scientific attaches in London and Paris, The Third Assistant Secretary of State 
advised that a statement of the need for this service for the year beginning July 1, 1919, 
should be transmitted immediately to the President of the United States. 
In accordance with this advice a letter was prepared by your committee and transmitted to 
the State Department for approval and comment. 
Moved: That the offices of the Research Information Service in London, Paris, and Rome 
be closed June 30, 1919, unless Government funds become available for the continuation of 
the Foreign Research Information Service. {Adopted.) 
In behalf of the Division of Physical Sciences, Mr. Millikan as retiring Chair- 
man, recommended that a communication be sent to the Rockefeller Foun- 
dation requesting an annual appropriation of $20,000 for two or three years for 
traveling expenses in connection with the plan of stimulating and organizing 
research in physical subjects through the formation of groups of research men 
in these subjects. 
Moved: That the Executive Board approve the foregoing recommendations of the Divi- 
sion of Physical Sciences and that the Chairman of the Council be authorized to address a 
letter to the Rockefeller Foundation requesting an annual appropriation of $20,000 for two or 
three years in support of these plans. {Adopted.) 
Moved: That the following recommendations from the Division of Biology and Agricul- 
ture be approved: It is the sense of the Division of Biology and Agriculture that it is desirable 
to ask support for a number of National Research Fellowships in the Division of Biology and 
Agriculture, comparable in general type to those offered in physics and chemistry. 
{Adopted.) 
Moved: That the Division of Geology and Geography be authorized to pay from the Gen- 
eral Maintenance allotment of the Division the expenses of railroad fare and Pulhnan for the 
members attending a meeting of the Division to be held June 5 and 6 1919. Adopted. 
Moved: That the following Committee on Paleobotany of the Division of Geology and 
Geography be approved: 
David White (Chairman), U. S. Geological Survey 
R. S. Bassler, U. S. National Museum 
E. W. Berry, Johns Hopkins University 
J. M. Clarke, State Geologist of New York 
F. H. Knowlton, U. S. Geological Survey 
J. C. Merriam, University of California. {Adopted.) 
Mr. Leuschner, the Acting Chairman of the Division of Physical Sciences 
presented a recommendation from the Provisional Executive Committee of 
the American Section of the proposed International Geophysical Union to the 
effect that the railroad fare and Pullman expenses of the members of the Sec- 
tion attending the organizing meeting of the Section to be held on June 24 and 
25, 1919, be met from the General Maintenance fund of the Executive Board 
allotment. 
Moved: That the railroad and Pullman expense of members attending the organizing meet- 
ing on June 24 and 25, 1919, of the American Section of the proposed International Geophysi- 
cal Union, not to exceed $100 in the case of any member, be approved, such expenses to be 
met from the General Maintenance fund of the Executive Board allotment. {Adopted.) 
