NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
533 
Mr. Woodward, as chairman of a committee appointed at the meeting of 
the Executive Board on May 8, 1919, recommended for approval the following 
resolution: 
Whereas the inauguration of any important enterprise for the improvement and progress 
of communities or states requires that its affairs be conducted by men whose altruism and 
fidelity command confidence; and whereas the office of Treasurer of the National Academy of 
Sciences and of the National Research Council, held by Mr. Whitman Cross during the past 
year and four months, is a position of vital and exacting responsibilities, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the National Research Council hereby expresses and records its cordial 
appreciation of the laborious and painstaking services rendered by Mr. Cross during this for- 
mative period of the Council, when there was special need of the patriotism and the altruism 
he displayed in his work. 
Moved: That the report of the Committee be accepted by the Executive Board as ex- 
pressing its appreciation of the services rendered by the Treasurer, Mr. Whitman Cross, 
and that the Secretary be instructed to transmit a copy of this minute and report to Mr. 
Whitman Cross. (Adopted.) 
Mr. Kellogg, Chairman of the Division of Educational Relations presented 
the following recommendations: 
In compliance with action of the Interim Committee at its meeting on June 
17, 1919, it is recommended, after discussion and agreement with the Execu- 
tive Committee of the Division of Biology and Agriculture at its recent meet- 
ing at Woods Hole, that informal liaison be maintained between the Com- 
mittee on Educational Relations of the Division of Biology and Agriculture 
and the Division of Educational Relations through the chairmen of these Divi- 
sions, instead of by the appointment of a liaison member from the former 
in the latter Division. 
The question of coordination of Divisions of Science and Technology with 
the Division of Educational Relations has been considered. It is believed 
that the action of the Interim Committee on June 17, to the effect that chair- 
men of divisions be present whenever possible at the meetings of other divisions, 
sufficiently covers this situation, and it is recommended that this system be 
developed and maintained. 
Moved: That the recommendations of the Division of Educational Relations be approved. 
(Adopted.) 
The following nominations were presented by the Chairman of the Division 
of Educational Relations for membership in that Division: 
Representing the Association of American Universities — President A. Ross 
Hill, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. 
Representing the American Association of University Professors — Professor 
E. Percival Lewis, Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 
California. 
Moved: That the nominations of President A. Ross Hill, of the University of Missouri, 
and Professor E. Percival Lewis, of the University of California, be approved, with recom- 
