NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
MINUTES OF JOINT MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE 
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WITH THE COUNCIL OF THE 
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
At The National Research Council Building, June 24, 1919, at 9.30 a.m. 
Present: Messrs. Bancroft, Clevenger, Dunn, Hussey, Leuschner, Mathews, 
McClung, Merriam, Ransome,* Stratton, Walcott* Washburn, Woodward. 
Mr. Walcott in the chair during the transaction of the business of the Coun- 
cil of the Academy. 
Mr. Merriam in the chair during the transaction of the business of the 
National Research Council. 
The minutes of the joint meeting of the Executive Board of the National 
Research Council with the Council of the National Academy of Sciences of 
May 27 and minutes of the meeting of the Executive Board of the National 
Reseach Council of June 10 were approved as circulated. 
The President of the National Academy of Sciences presented the following 
resolution which was passed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York on 
June 3, 1919, making provision to cover expenses of the National Research 
Council during the coming year: 
Resolved, That, pursuant to Paragraph 3 of the resolution recording action taken at 
the special meeting of the Board of Trustees held March 28, 1919, the sum of One Hundred 
Thousand Dollars ($100,000) be and it hereby is appropriated to the National Academy of 
Sciences for the use of the National Research Council for the year beginning July 1, 1919; and 
that the Treasurer be and he hereby is authorized to make payments as needed to the extent 
of $100,000 on certificates of the Chairman of the National Academy of Sciences and the 
Chairman of the National Research Council. 
Moved: That the Executive Board of the National Research Council go on record as ap- 
preciating the recognition by the Carnegie Corporation of New York of the work which it is 
accomplishing by appropriating the sum of $100,000 for its use for the year beginning July 1, 
1919. (Adopted.) 
To further the plans for a new building for the National Academy of 
Sciences and the National Research Council, it was 
Moved: That the President of the National Academy of Sciences be authorized to enlarge 
the functions and personnel of the present Committee on Building Plans so that the Com- 
mittee shall be constituted hereafter as follows: Messrs. Geo. E. Hale (Chairman), J. R. 
Angell, Gano Dunn, J. C. Merriam, R. A. Millikan, A. A. Noyes, C. D. Walcott, with Mr. H. 
S. Pritchett in an advisory capacity. (Adopted.) 
Messrs. Dunn and Leuschner verbally submitted amendments to the Articles 
of Organization of the National Research Council providing for the continua- 
* Members of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences. 
