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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
MEETINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
Thirty-fourth Meeting — December 4, 1917 
The meeting convened in the offices of the Council in the Munsey Build- 
ing, Washington, D. C, and was called to order at 9.15 a.m. by the 
Chairman, Mr. Hale. 
Messrs. Marston T. Bogart, Russell H. Chittenden, George E. Hale, Arthur 
A. Noyes, Raymond Pearl, S. W. Stratton, Charles D. Walcott, and, by 
invitation, W. F. Durand and Charles E. Mendenhall were present. 
The minutes of the meeting of the Committee of November 10 were 
approved as prepared and submitted to the members of the Committee. 
The Chairman of the Council reported: 
1. That Col. P. D. Lockridge, Acting President of the Army War College, and Capt. 
Roger Welles, Director of Naval Intelligence, U.S.N., have been appointed members of 
the Council and of its Military Committee. 
2. That at a recent meeting of the Military Committee the request of the British Min- 
istry of Munitions, and a later communication from the British War Mission, relative to the 
organization of an experimental liaison were considered, involving the appointment of a 
competent group of American scientists to secure adequate intercommunication between 
English and American industrial and military projects and development. This request 
was cordially received and approved, having already received the approval of the Executive 
Committee. A full discussion of the subject at meetings of the Military Committee, how- 
ever, led also to the approval of the organization of a more extensive program, involving 
intercommunication between the entente allies on all subjects of industrial and scientific 
importance. A subcommittee, consisting of the Director of the Bureau of Standards, the 
Acting President of the Army War College, and the Director of Naval Intelligence, was 
appointed to submit recommendations with regard to the procedure necessary to establish 
this liaison, under direct authority of the War and Navy Departments of the Government. 
A financial statement, showing expenditures since the last monthly meet- 
ing of the Committee, was submitted and approved. 
Upon recommendation of the Vice-Chairman of the Engineering Com- 
mittee, the following were added to the membership of this Committee: 
Comfort A. Adams, Harvard University; Jesse Coates, Consulting 
Engineer. 
Mr. Durand reported for the special committee, consisting of himself and 
Messrs. Millikan and Stratton, which was appointed to undertake the selec- 
tion of a larger committee to consider the organization and various problems 
of the Patent Office. As a result of discussion the following members of 
such a committee were appointed: 
Leo H. Baekeland, William F. Durand, Thomas Ewing, Frederick P. Fish, 
Robert A. Millikan, Edwin J. Prindle, Michael I. Pupin, S. W. Stratton. 
Upon recommendation of the Chairman of the Chemistry Committee, 
