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neering Society's Building, New York, and that the following actions were 
taken: 
1. By lot, the terms of the 12 elected members of the Division were determined as follows: 
One year, Carty Dunn, Washburn, and Whitney. 
Two years, Baekeland, Johnston, Mees, and Townsend. 
Three years, Flinn, Howe, Rautenstrauch, and the twelfth member, not yet elected. 
2. The following officers were elected: Chairman, John Johnston, Vice-Chairman, Harri- 
son E. Howe; Executive Committee, the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman ex officio, C. E. 
K. Mees, G. K. Burgess and Alfred D. Flinn. 
3. It was voted to promote the establishment of an alloys research association, confirming 
action previously taken by the Industrial Research Section. 
4. It was voted that when an alloys research association shall have been incorporated, it 
shall undertake the conduct of the research. 
5. It was voted that four members of the Division of Industrial Relations, Howe, Rauten- 
strauch, Washburn, and Burgess, be appointed a committee to formulate a plan for an alloys 
research, and to visit users and others interested in alloys and confer with them concerning 
the formation of an association for conducting research. 
6. It was the sense of the meeting that the Alloys Research Committee, while promoting 
this research, should investigate also the feasibility of promoting researches in refractories and 
in metal cutting. {Adopted.) 
The Acting Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology presented 
for approval the following personnel of the Committee on Ceramic Research : 
A. V. Bleininger, Chairman ex officio. Bureau of Standards, Pittsburgh, Pa, 
R. B. Sosman, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, D. C. . 
Homer F. Staley, Bureau of Standards, Washington, D, C. 
Arthur L. Day, Corning Glass Works, Corning, N. Y. 
E. W. Washburn, Department of Ceramic Engineering, Univ. of Illinois. {Approved.) 
In behalf of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, the Acting 
Chairman of that Division presented the following request: 
In accordance with resolutions adopted at the meeting of the Executive 
Committee of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology on June 3, 
1919, the Division asks for an appropriation of $7000, to be used in carrying out 
a program for stimulating and organizing cooperative research in Chemistry. 
The plan approved by the Executive Committee of the Division includes the 
calling of conferences of investigators working along similar lines. The pro- 
gram of work for each such conference will be laid out carefully in advance by 
the Chairman of the Division, after correspondence or personal conference 
with the interested investigators. It is hoped that approximately five such con- 
ferences can be planned for and held during the coming year and it is estimated 
that the cost of holding these five conferences will be approximately $7000. 
Moved: That the request of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology for $7000 
to carry out the plans for stimulating and organizing cooperative research in Chemistry be 
referred to the Budget Committee to be considered with other plans of a similar nature. 
{Adopted.) 
On recommendation of the Acting Chairman of the Division of Chemistry 
and Chemical Technology, it was 
