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tion of retired Chairmen of the Council as members of the Executive Board and 
for the appointment of Chairmen of the Divisions of General Relations. 
Moved: That Messrs. Dunn and Leuschner be requested to formulate suitable amendments 
to the Articles of Organization of the National Research Council providing for the continua- 
tion of retired Chairmen of the Council as members of the Executive Board, and for the 
appointment of Chairmen of the Divisions of General Relations. {Adopted.) 
Mr. Leuschner, Acting Chairman of the Division of Physical Sciences, sub- 
mitted the following resolution of the American Section of the International 
Astronomical Union: 
Resolved, That it be the sense of the American Section of the International Astronomical 
Union that the Executive Board of the National Research Council be requested to guarantee 
a sum, not to exceed $1500, to cover the American Share of the Administrative expenses of the 
International Astronomical Union. 
Moved: That the Executive Board of the National Research Council underwrite the share 
of the United States of the administrative expenses of the International Research Council 
and of its afifiliated Unions to an amount not to exceed $5000 and that this item be provided 
for in the provisional budget for 1919-20. (Adopted.) 
The Chairman of the National Research Council presented the following 
letter from the Rockefeller Foundation, appropriating the sum of $20,000 
to meet the expenses involved in conferences of special sub-committees on 
research subjects of the Division of Physical Sciences. 
The Rockefeller Foundation 
June 20, 1919. 
My Dear Mr. Merriam: 
I have the honor to inform you that at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
Rockefeller Foundation held June 16, 1919, the following resolution was adopted: 
Resolved: That the sum of Twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) be, and it is hereby, ap- 
propriated to the National Research Council for the Division of Physical Sciences, of whicli 
so much as may be necessary shall be used to defray the necessary travelling and other 
expenses involved in conferences of the sub-committees of that division during the year 1919. 
Very truly yours, 
Edwin R. Eaibree, Secretary. 
Moved: That the Chairman of the National Research Council express in behalf of the Ex- 
ecutive Board its appreciation of the interest which the Rockefeller Foundation has shown in 
the research work of the Division of Physical Sciences by appropriating the sum of $20,000 to 
meet the expenses involved in conferences of special sub-committees on research subjects of 
that Division. (Adopted.) 
The Chairman of the National Research Council announced the following 
Committee on Publication of 'The Inquiry' Results; authorized June 10, 1919; 
Messrs. C. D. Walcott (Chairman), James R. Angell, E. B. Mathews. 
The Chairman raised the question of continuing the status and titles of the 
scientific attaches at the American embassies in Europe from July 1 to Sep- 
tember 30, 1919. 
