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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
The Chairman reported that in accordance with the resolution passed 
by the Executive Board on May 27, Mr. Gellert Alleman, Swarthmore 
College, Swarthmore, Pa., had been appointed a member of the Board of 
Trustees which shall have power to organize and control the undertaking in 
regard to the preparation of monographs proposed in the report of the Com- 
mittee on Publication of Compendia of Chemical Literature, etc. (see minutes 
of meeting of Executive Board of April 30). 
The Chairman recommended that the record be completed by report- 
ing the appointment of Mr. John Johnston, Chairman of the Section on 
Industrial Relations under the old organization, as Acting Chairman, without 
salary, of the Division of Industrial Relations under the new organization, 
to date from April 15, 1919. (Approved.) 
The Chairman announced the membership of the joint Committee on the 
Publication of Critical Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants, authorized 
on April 15, to be as follows: 
Messrs. Bumstead and Millikan, Division of Physical Sciences. 
Messrs. Bancroft and Washburn, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. 
Mr. S. W. Stratton, Bureau of Standards, 
Mr. F. E. Fowle, Smithsonian Institution. 
The Acting Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technol- 
ogy presented a report of the joint Committee on the Publication of Critical 
Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants, which was adopted in the follow- 
ing amended form: 
Your committee appointed to consider the plans proposed by the American Chemical So- 
ciety with reference to the preparation of Critical Tables of Physical and Chemical Con- 
stants, submits the following report: 
(1) It is recommended that the Council approve of preparing critical volumes of physical 
and chemical constants and related numerical data, as described in that report, but with the 
changes indicated by the italicized portions of the following extract from the report: Sec- 
tion II, 3 (confer minutes of meeting of April 22). 
(1) The work shall not be a mere compilation, but shall represent a critical digest of 
physico-chemical constants. 
(2) The compilation shall be published in separate parts. This will greatly facilitate the 
editing, greatly accelerate the publication of certain most important parts, and greatly facili- 
tate the problem of keeping the work up-to-date without incurring the necessity of reprinting 
a large volume. 
(3) The business control of the publication shall be placed in the hands of three Trustees 
of whom one (the Chairman) shall be nominated by the Chairman of the National Research 
Council and one each by the President of the American Chemical Society and the President 
of the American Physical Society. They shall hold office for one year and be eligible for 
re-election. They shall have the power to add to their number, subject to the approval of the 
National Research Council. The Trustees shall have the power to interest scientific bodies 
(such as the National Research Council, the Smithsonian Institution, Government Bureaus, 
etc.) or some publishing house in the preparation and publication either of the whole com- 
pilation (subject to the scientific control discussed below) or of individual parts of the 
compilation, or to recommend any plan of financing the undertaking that they may deem 
wise. The undertaking is to be considered primarily in charge of the National Research 
