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Academy of Sciences be requested to invite the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to 
serve as Chairman of the Government Division; and further that the President of the Acad- 
emy be requested to present to the President of the United States the personnel of the Gov- 
ernment Division to be designated as members of the National Research Council in the Gov- 
ernment Division. {Adopted) 
The Secretary presented a provisional draft of a bulletin of the National 
Research Council containing a full description of its organization including 
the membership of its Divisions and Committees. 
Moved: That the draft of the organization of the National Research Council, including 
the membership of its Divisions and Committees, be printed, subject to the regulations re- 
lating to the printing of bulletins adopted at the meeting of the Executive Board on June 10, 
1919. {Adopted.) 
Moved: That Mr. S. L. G. Knox be appointed Assistant to the Scientific Attaches at Paris 
and Rome, without salary, from April 15 to June 30, 1919, and to Sept. 30, 1919, if Attaches 
are continued. {Adopted.) 
Moved: That Mr. Donald J. Cowling, President of Carleton College, be nominated to 
represent the Association of American Colleges in the Division of Educational Relations in 
the National Research Council, with recommendation to the President of the National 
Academy of Sciences that Mr. Cowling be appointed a member of the National Research 
Council and assigned to the Division of Educational Relations. {Adopted.) 
The meeting adjourned at 10.45 a.m. 
Paul Brockett, Assistant Secretary, 
REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF TEE ACADEMY 
Prepared by the Home Secretary 
The Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences was held at the 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C, April 28, 29, and 30, 1919, with 
President Walcott presiding. 
Seventy members were present as follows: C. G. Abbot, Aitken, Ames, 
Benedict, Birkhoff, Boas, Bumstead, Cannon, Cattell, F. W. Clarke, J. M. 
Clarke, Conklin, Cross, Cushing, Dall, Davenport, Davis, Day, Dickson, 
Fewkes, Flexner, Forbes, Hale, E. H. Hall, Hayford, Hillebrand, Holmes, 
Howard, Howe, Iddings, Jennings, Jewett, Kasner, Langmuir, Leuschner, 
Loeb, Lusk, Mayor, Mendel, C. H. Merriam, J. C. Merriam, Millikan, 
Morgan, Moulton, E. L. Nichols, E. F. Nichols, A. A. Noyes, W. A. Noyes, 
H. F. Osborn, T. B. Osborne, Pearl, Ransome, Reid, Rosa, Russell, Schlesinger, 
Schuchert, Erwin F. Smith, Stieghtz, Stratton, Thorndike, Ulrich, Van Vleck, 
Vaughan, Walcott, Webster, Wheeler, D. White, H. S. White, Woodward. 
