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Research Councils was requested to submit a report to the Executive Com- 
mittee as soon as practicable, with recommendations concerning steps to be 
taken to affiliate and closely coordinate the work of State Research Councils 
with that of the National Research Council. 
In extension of the discussion which took place at the meeting of the Ex- 
ecutive Committee on December 4 relative to the reorganization and future 
development of the Council, Mr. Hale spoke of the rapid extension of its work 
and particularly of the importance of its Military Committee and of its gov- 
ernmental associations, as well as of the necessity of basing any future scheme 
of organization on the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as an 
official advisor of the Government. 
A proposed plan of organization was laid before the Committee and tenta- 
tively adopted as a basis for further consideration and discussion. 
Mr. Dunn explained that the Engineering Foundation had expressed its 
willingness and desire to furnish financial assistance in aid of researches which 
might advisedly be undertaken by the National Research Council in the field 
of engineering, and upon his suggestion, as Chairman of the Engineering 
Committee of the Council, it was voted that the Executive Committee re- 
quest the Engineering Committee to submit suggestions to the Engineering 
Foundation with regard to financial needs for problems in engineering research. 
The meeting, which adjourned at 11.40 a.m., was followed by two sessions 
of a joint meeting of the Executive Committee of the Research Council and 
of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences, at which discussion took 
place with regard to the proposed organization of the Research Council and 
its relations to the National Academy of Sciences. 
Thirty-sixth Meeting, January 17, 1918 
A joint meeting of the Council of tne National Academy of Sciences and 
of the Executive Committee of the National Research Council convened at 
9.30 a.m. in the offices of the Research Council at 1023 16th Street, Wash- 
ington, D. C, with President Walcott of the National Academy of Sciences 
in the chair. 
Present: Members of Council of National Academy of Sciences: Russell H. 
Chittenden, Whitman Cross, George E. Hale, William H. Howell, Charles 
D. Walcott. Members of Executive Committee of National Research Coun- 
cil: Marston T. Bogert, Russell H. Chittenden, George E. Hale, Van H. 
Manning, Robert A. Millikan, S. W. Stratton, Charles D. Walcott, William 
H. Welch. Also present by invitation: William F. Durand, Simon Flexner, 
Charles E. Mendenhall, John C. Merriam, Robert M. Yerkes, and William 
H. Walker. 
The Chairman of the Council reported: 
1. That an allotment of $29,250 has been authorized, by the President of the United 
States, from the emergency appropriation at his disposal to apply toward the estimated 
office expenses of the National Research Council for the year 1918. 
