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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
The minutes of the meetings of the Executive Board of the National 
Research Council on August 12 and of the Interim Committee on October 
2 were approved as circulated with certain slight textual corrections. 
Moved: That Mr. Vemon Kellogg, Chairman of the Division of Educational Relations, 
be appointed to serve also as Secretary of the National Research Council, to date from 
October 1, 1919. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That Mr. Harry O. Wood, Acting Secretary of the National Research Council, 
be appointed Assistant Secretary. . (Adopted.) 
Confirming action taken by the Division of Engineering at its meeting on 
September 29, 1919, it was 
Moved: That the Executive Board approve the appointment of Mr. Comfort A. Adams 
as Chairman of the Division of Engineering. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That Mr. Henry M. Howe be appointed Honorary Chairman of the Division 
of Engineering for one year. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That Mr. Galen H. Clevenger be appointed Vice-Chairman of the Division of 
Engineering without salary. (Adopted.) 
The Treasurer presented a financial report for the period ending Septem- 
ber 30, 1919. 
The Chairman reported that Mr. Abraham Flexner, Secretary of the 
General Education Board, writing under date of September 6, 1919, had 
transmitted to him the following action of that Board taken on September 5, 
1919: 
Resolved, That, upon the request of the National Research Council under date of 
August 12, 1919, the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000), or so much thereof as may 
be needed, be, and it hereby is, appropriated to the National Research Council, to enable 
the Division of Educational Relations to conduct certain educational investigations outlined 
in Dr. Angell's memorandum during the year ending September 30, 1920. 
In view of the action of the General Education Board be it 
Resolved, That the National Research Council accept with cordial appreciation the 
generous gift of the General Education Board of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) for the 
special work of the Division of Educational Relations of the Council in making an investi- 
gation of the conditions ajffecting research in American educational institutions; and that 
the Council will exercise every effort to make the use of this gift yield results of advantage 
to American science and education. (Approved.) 
Mr. Kellogg, Chairman of the Committee on Publicity, reported various 
steps taken to make the purposes and activities of the Council more widely 
known to the general public and the scientific men of the country through 
the newspaper press and technical journals. 
The Chairman of the Division of Physicial Sciences, in response to a request 
from the Division of States Relations 
Moved: That Professor Ernest Merritt be appointed to represent the Division of Physical 
Sciences in the Division of States Relations. (Adopted.) 
