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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE BOARD OF WAR ORGANIZATION 
First Meeting, Tuesday, February 26, 1918 
The meeting convened at 9.30 a.m. in the offices of the Council, 1023 16th 
Street, Washington, D. C, with Mr. Hale, the Chairman of the Council, in 
the chair. 
Present: Mars ton T. Bogert, John J. Carty, Whitman Cross, Gano Dunn, 
George E. Hale, John Johnston, Vernon L. Kellogg, Charles E. Mendenhall, 
Richard M. Pearce, Charles D. Walcott, Robert S. Woodward, Robert M. 
Yerkes, and by invitation, Henry N. Russell. 
The minutes of the joint meeting of the Council of the National Academy 
of Sciences and the Executive Committee of the National Research Council 
of January 17, 1918, were presented and approved. 
The Chairman of the Council reported : 
1. That arrangements have been made to rent the building at 1015 16th Street N.W., at 
a rental of $250 per month, from March 1 to September 15, 1918, in order to accommodate 
the growing activities of the Council, particularly in cooperation with the U. S. Signal Corps. 
2. That Mr. Johnston has accepted his election as Executive Secretary of the Council 
to date from February 1, 1918. 
3. That Sidney W. Farnsworth of the Westinghouse Electric Company has been appointed 
Technical Assistant of the London Section of the Research Information Committee, and that 
all members of the London and Paris Sections of this Committee have sailed for their posts 
of duty, with the exception of Mr. Farnsworth, who will leave shortly. 
4. That for personal reasons it has become necessary for Harold D. Babcock, Technical 
Assistant of the Washington Section of the Research Information Committee, to resign and 
to return to California. His resignation took effect on February 17, 1918. 
5. That Graham Edgar of Throop College of Technology, has accepted appointment as 
Technical Assistant of the Washington Committee in Mr. Babcock's place and expects to 
assume his duties about March 15. 
6. That Clarence H. Mackay has contributed the sum of $1000 for expenses in connection 
with the work of the Sub-Committee on Protective Body Armor of the Engineering Com- 
mittee of the Council. 
7. That the Chairman has prepared a report of the activities of the Council for the year 
1917, to be incorporated in the annual report of the National Academy of Sciences, and that 
with this report will also appear a statement of the contributions and appropriations which 
have been made available for expenditure under the direction of the Council or with its 
cooperation. 
The Chairman of the Council submitted the following report of action 
taken by the Executive Committee of the Executive Board of the Council 
under authority granted at the joint meeting of the Council of the National 
Academy of Sciences and the Executive Committee of the National Research 
Council, on January 17. 
