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2. That the building at 1023 16th Street has been rented by the Research Council, and 
that the twenty-two rooms in the building have already been assigned to provide for the 
growing activities of the Council. 
3. That in accordance with the action of the Executive Committee at its meeting on 
December 4, the proposed recommendations with regard to the organization of a Research 
Information Committee have been submitted to the Council of National Defense. These 
recommendations were approved, and authority issued for the establishment of three com- 
mittees to inaugurate the proposed work. The Committee in the United States consist 
of S. W. Stratton, Chairman, representing the National Research Council; Captain Roger 
Welles, Director of Naval Intelligence, U. S. N.; and Colonel Ralph H. Van Deeman, Chief 
of Military Intelligence Section, Army War College. The London Committee will consist 
of Henry A. Bumstead of Yale University, representing the National Research Council, 
together with representatives of the Army and Navy Intelligence Services to be appointed; 
and the Paris Committee will consist of William F. Durand, Vice Chairman of the Engi- 
neering Committee of the National Research Council, representing the Council, with repre- 
sentatives of the Army and Navy Intelligence Services to be appointed. The State Depart- 
ment has agreed to appoint Mr. Bumstead and Mr. Durand as Scientific Attaches of the 
Embassies at London and Paris respectively. Mr. Harold D. Babcock, a physicist at the 
Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory, has been appointed Technical Assistant of the Washington 
Committee, and it is expected that he will report for duty on January 21, with offices in the 
National Research Council building. A request has been made of the Council of National 
Defense for funds to provide for the expenses of these three offices. Mr. K. T. Compton 
of Princeton University has been appointed Technical Assistant of the Paris committee. 
The resignation of Cary T. Hutchinson as Secretary of the National Research 
Council was presented and accepted, 
The resignation of Raymond Pearl as Chairman of the Agriculture Com- 
mittee of the Council was presented and accepted. 
Upon nomination of the Chairman of the Council, John Johnston, at present 
in charge of the offensive gas warfare work of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, 
was elected Executive Secretary of the National Research Council at an annual 
salary of $5000, to take effect as soon as Mr. Johnston is able to accept the 
appointment and devote his entire time to the work of the Council. 
Upon recommendation of the Chairman of the Chemistry Committee, the 
following subcommittee was appointed with Chairman as indicated: 
Sub-Committee on Chemical Engineering: Chairman, Charles F. McKenna, 50 Church 
Street, New York City. 
The appointment of the Sub-Committee on Chemical Engineering was requested by the 
American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the Chairman was nominated by the 
Institute. 
The Chairman of the Chemistry Committee also reported that: 
William J. Comstock, formerly of the Chemical Staff of Yale University, has come to 
Washington to aid in the work of the Chemistry Committee, to which he will devote his 
entire time, and that 
The Chairman of the Chemistry Committee has been made a member of an Advisory 
Committee of the War Trade Board. 
Upon nomination of the Chairman of the Council, Charles B. Davenport 
was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Anthropology Committee. 
