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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
The minutes of the meeting of the Interim Committee of the National 
Research Council of August 19 were approved as circulated. 
The Chairman, as chairman of the Finance Committee, rendered an 
informal report of a meeting of that committee held in New York on Septem- 
ber 9. 
Mr. Howe, Chairman of the Committee on Organization andjBudget, 
reported that, after consultation with the Treasurer, he had taken out j in- 
surance to the amount of $5000 on that portion of the property contained in 
the offices of the Council which belongs to the National Research Council. 
Moved: That the action taken with reference to insurance be approved. {Adopted.) 
Mr. Kellogg, Chairman of the Publicity Committee, presented anj^informal 
report of the activities of that committee. &i . fX-.i 
On recommendation of Mr. Yerkes, Chairman of the Committee ^onVPub- 
lication, it was 
Moved: That the Committee on Publication be authorized to publish Bulletins of the 
National Research Council in appropriate editions. {Adopted,) 
Mr. Yerkes presented an informal report of the Committee on Publication 
concerning difficulties which had arisen in the pubUcation of Bulletins of the 
Council, such as questions of postal rates, economy of printing, and the 
relation of the Bulletins of the Council to the Proceedings of the National 
Academy of Sciences. Action regarding the form of publication was post- 
poned until the next meeting of the Executive Board. 
The Vice Chairman of the Division of Industrial Relations made an 
informal report of the progress of the Division in its various activities. 
On account of certain objections offered by one of the Divisions of Science 
and Technology to the change of name to Division of Industrial Research, 
the matter was again brought up for consideration. The Vice Chairman of 
the Division made a clarifying statement setting forth the actual functions 
of the Division. It was the sense of the meeting that the recommendation 
already made to the National Academy of Sciences, that the name be changed 
to Division of Industrial Research should be allowed to stand. 
On recommendation of the Vice Chairman of the Division it was 
Moved: That the exhibit to be put in by the Western Electric Company, all expenses of 
which they are to defray, be authorized. {Adopted.) 
The Chairman of the Research Information Service drew attention to a 
recommendation made by the Committee on International Catalogue of 
Scientific Literature, which provides that the catalogue be changed to simply 
an author's list of publications arranged under the proper division of science, 
but not subdivided further, and that this list be published once in five years. 
In view of the thought given by the Council to the matter of abstracts and 
