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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
exclusively in scientific and research work for the Army, Navy, War Indus- 
tries Board, and other Government bodies, and the wide distribution of the 
members of its committees has been a source of inconvenience and sometimes 
of confusion. Such a war organization would involve the concentration in 
Washington of comparatively few men representing the most essential work. 
For convenience of operation, it is proposed that closely related subjects be 
grouped in Divisions, to avoid such difficulties as have sometimes arisen from 
the independent work of committees covering similar fields. The Executive 
Committee of each Division is, in general, to be composed of the smallest pos- 
sible number of representative men, living in Washington or closely in touch 
with the work of the Government. 
All of the old committees of the Council will remain in existence, to be called 
upon for such work as the various Divisions may assign to them. 
He then submitted to the members present a schedule of the proposed war 
organization of the Council, which after discussion and upon motion was 
adopted, as follows: 
War Organization of the National Research Council 
General Officers: Chairmen, Three Vice- Chairmen, Executive Secretary, Treasurer, 
Assistant Secretary. 
Executive Board: General Officers, the Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of the eight Divi- 
sions, the Chairmen of the five Sections of the Administrative Division, and mem- 
bers at large. 
1. Administrative Division: Sections on Foreign Relations; Governmental Relations; 
Relations with State Research Committees; Industrial Relations; Educational Relations. 
2. Military Division. 
3. Engineering Division. 
4. Division of Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy, and Geophysics. 
5. Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. 
6. Division of Geology, Mineralogy, and Geography. 
7. Division of Medicine, Hygiene, Surgery, Anatomy, Anthropology, Physiology, Psy- 
chology, and Zoology. 
8. Division of Agriculture, Forestry, Botany, and Fisheries. 
In adopting this plan, it was recognized that part of the work in Zoology would fall 
within Division 8. 
It was also voted that an Executive Committee of the Executive Board be 
appointed to consist of the General Officers of the Council and of the Chair- 
men of the Sections of the Administrative Division to serve between meet- 
ings of the Executive Board for the consideration of current business. 
Upon motion, the present officers of the Council were nominated and elected 
as General Officers of the War Organization of the Council as follows: 
Chairman, George E. Hale. 
First Vice-Chairman, Charles D. Walcott. 
Second Vice-Chairman, Gano Dunn. 
Third Vice-Chairman, Robert A. Millikan. 
