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Division with authority to enlarge the committee so that it will include not more than seven 
members. (Adopted.) 
The Chairman of the Division of Biology and Agriculture presented the 
names of Messrs. F. R. LiUie (Chairman), G. R. Lyman and J. R. Murlin to act 
on this committee. 
Moved: That a Special Committee of three of the Division of Biologyand Agriculture be 
appointed to consider ways and means of securing and publishing current problems in biology, 
and to make recommendations to the Executive Committee. (Adopted.) 
The Chairman of the Division of Biology and Agriculture presented the 
names of Messrs. G. N. Collins (Chairman), Barring ton Moore andP. J. Par- 
rott to serve on this committee. (Approved.) 
Moved: That a committee of at least five, of the Division of Biology and Agriculture, be 
appointed to consider the general question of Biological Investigations in Tropical America 
and report back to the Division, (Adopted.) 
The Chairman of the Division of Biology and Agriculture presented the 
names of Messrs. A. S. Hitchcock (Chairman), L. R. Jones, Barrington Moore, 
Wilfred Osgood and H. N. Whitford to serve on this committee. 
(Approved.) 
Moved: That Mr. Vernon L. Kellogg be nominated as tenth member-at-large of the Divi- 
sion of Biology and Agriculture for a period of one year, with recommendation to the Presi- 
dent of the National Academy of Sciences that he be appointed a member of the National 
Research Counci' and assigned to that Division. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That the recommendation of the Division af Biology and Agriculture for the ap- 
pointment of a Committee of that Division on the Study of Oceanography be approved. 
(Adopted) 
The Chairman of the Division of Biology and Agriculture stated that in 
his opinion it was desirable that the Chairmen of Divisions be present at the 
meetings of other Divisions, and recommended further that the minutes of the 
Divisions be exchanged. 
Moved: That the suggestion of the Chairman of the Division of Biology and Agriculture 
that Chairmen of Divisions be present whenever possible at the meetings of other Divisions 
be specifically approved, and that the minutes of the Divisions be exchanged. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That the matter of acceptance of alterations made by the Navy League on the 
building recently leased by the National Research Council at 201 Sixteenth Street be re- 
ferred to the Committee on Space, with power to act. (Adopted.) 
The Chairman of the Council brought up the question of the organization 
of the Division of Government Relations. It was 
Moved: That the President of the National Academy of Sciences be requested to confer 
with the heads of those departments of the Government which, by action of the Executive 
Board of the National Research Council and the Council of the National Academy of Sciences^ 
are represented on the Government Division, with a view to selecting representatives of these 
Departments to be included in the Government Division; that the President of the National 
