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Moved: That Mr. Mathews be added to the Committee on Removal of OflBces of the 
National Research Council. {Adopted.) 
The Secretary submitted a provisional budget for the National Research 
Council for 1919-20 based on the available funds for general maintenance and 
prepared by the Committee on Budget with the assistance of the Committee 
on Organization of Administration. The budget is to be supplemented later 
with estimated expenditures from funds available for special purposes. In 
the provisional budget is included the complete salary list of officers and em- 
ployees of the Council and all appropriations to the Executive Board and to the 
various Divisions, of funds for general maintenance, including travehng 
expenses, which are subject to the rules of the Council. 
Moved: That the general principles adopted in preparing the provisional budget for 1919- 
20, including the provisional salary list and apportionment of funds be approved with the 
specification that the budget is to be interpreted as operative for the first half year, from July 
1, 1919, to December 31, 1919, and that the Interim Committee have power to make such 
changes and reductions as may be deemed advisable. {Adopted.) 
On recommendation of the Secretary, it was 
Moved: That the losses on Government funds incurred by foreign exchange be made good 
from and be charged to the Maintenance Fund of the Executive Board. {Adopted.) 
Mr. Leuschner, Acting Chairman of the Division of Physical Sciences pre- 
sented the following resolution of the American Section of the International 
Astronomical Union: 
That the Executive Board of the National Research Council be requested to secure funds 
for t*he preparation of a history and bibliography of comets and asteroids, with the under- 
standing that this work will be undertaken in the United States. 
Moved: That the securing of the necessary funds for the preparation of a history and bib- 
liography of comets and asteroids be referred to the Committee on Funds for Research 
Activities. {Adopted.) 
On recommendation of the Chairman of the Division of Biology and Agri- 
culture, it was 
Moved: That the sum of $149.80 to cover the expenses of the Committee on Salt Require- 
ments be reappropriated to the Division of Biology and Agriculture from the unappropriated 
funds of the National Research Council. {Adopted.) 
On recommendation of the Chairman of the Division of Biology and Agricul- 
ture it was 
Moved: That Mr. Lafayette B. Mendel be added to the Committee on Food and Nutri- 
tion of the Division of Biology and Agriculture. {Adopted.) 
In behalf of the Committee on Nomination of Members-at-large of the Exec- 
utive Board, Mr. Dunn presented for election the names of Mr. R. S. Wood- 
