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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
Chemical Union 
E. W. Washburn, Chairman 
Lt. Col. Edward Bartow Julius Stieglitz 
F. G. Cottrell H. S. Washington 
Chas. L. Parsons 
Alternates: Lt. Col. A. B. Lamb, Lt. Col. Jas. F. Norris 
Medicine 
W. S. Thayer, Chairman, Geo. W. Crile, F. P. Gay, C. L. Gibson, W. H. HoweU, 
Victor C. Vaughn 
Mathematics 
J. L. Coolidge 
Geology 
H. S. Washington 
Geography 
Major Douglas W. Johnson 
Biology 
H. F. Moore 
Alternates: R. P. Bigelow, R. E. Coker ' 
Physics 
C. E. Mendenhall, S. W. Stratton 
Patents 
John C. Penny 
Fisheries 
H. F. Moore 
Moved: That the report of the Committee on Representation of the United States at the 
International Meetings at London and Brussels, July, 1919, be approved and that the 
appointments of the delegates named be confirmed. {Adopted.) 
The Chairman presented the following letter from the Adjutant General of 
the Army: 
Chairman, National Research Council, New York, N. Y. 
Dear Sir: The report of Lieut. Colonel R. A. Millikan, Chairman, Physical Science 
Division of your Council, dated April 18, 1919, in which he states that the fund of fifteen 
thousand dollars originally allotted for research and development of a centrifugal gun is 
about exhausted and recommends that the Army take over further development of this 
type of ordnance has been given due consideration. 
As a result of this investigation, the Secretary of War has directed that further develop- 
ment in connection with this subject be placed in the hands of the Inventions Section; War 
Plans Division, General Staff, and requests that the models, drawings, specifications and all 
data you may have in connection with the centrifugal gun be turned over to that section. 
Arrangements will be made by the Inventions Section for the transfer of such skilled me- 
chanics now employed by you at Pittsburgh as may be desirable for duty at the Bureau of 
Standards where future development of the centrifugal gun will take place. 
Very truly yours, 
[Signed] P. C. Harris, 
The Adjutant General. 
Per: J. C. 
