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5. The chief functions of the foreign committees thus organized are intended to be as 
follows : 
(a) The development of contact with all important research laboratories or agencies, 
governmental or private; the compilation of problems and subjects "under investigation; 
and the collection and compilation of the results obtained. 
(b) The classification, organization, and preparation of such information for transmis- 
sion to the Research Information Committee in Washington. 
(c) The maintenance of continuous contact with the work of the offices of Military and 
Naval Attaches in order that all duplication of work or crossing of effort may be avoided, 
with the consequent waste of time and energy and the confusion resulting from crossed or 
duplicated effort. 
(d) To serve as an immediate auxiliary to the offices of the Military and Naval Attaches 
in the collection, analysis, and compilation of scientific, technical, and industrial research 
information. 
(e) To serve as an agency at the immediate service of the Commander-in-Chief of the 
Military or Naval Forces in Europe for the collection and analysis of scientific and technical 
research information, and as an auxiliary to such direct military and naval agencies as may 
be in use for the purpose. 
(f) To serve as centers of distribution to the American expeditionary forces in France and 
to the American naval forces in European waters of scientific and technical research informa- 
tion, originating in the United States and transmitted through the Research Information 
Committee in Washington. 
(g) To serve as centers of distribution to our Allies in Europe of scientific, technical, and 
industrial research information originating in the United States and transmitted through the 
Research Information Committee in Washington. 
(h) The maintenance of the necessary contact between the offices in Paris and London in 
order that provision may be made for the direct and prompt interchange of important sci- 
entific and technical information. 
(i) To aid research workers, or collectors of scientific, technical, and industrial information 
from the United States, when properly accredited from the Research Information Committee 
in Washington, in best achieving their several and particular purposes. 
6. The headquarters of the Research Information Committee in Washington is in the 
offices of the National Research Council, 1023 Sixteenth Street; the Branch Committees 
are located at the American Embassies in London and Paris. 
It was decided upon nomination of the Chairman of the Council to request 
the President of the National Academy of Sciences to appoint the following 
gentlemen, who will in future have an active part in its work, as additional 
members of the Council : 
Henry M. Howe, Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy, Columbia University . 
Vernon L. Kellogg, Professor of Entomology, Leland Stanford Jr. University. 
S. L. G. Knox, President, Knox Engineering Company, San Francisco, 
California. 
William J. Mayo, Surgeon General's Office, U. S. A. 
Charles H. Mayo, Rochester, Minnesota. 
Richard M. Pearce, Professor of Research Medicine, University of 
Pennsylvania. 
Colonel F. F. Russell, Surgeon General's Office, U. S. A. 
Rear Admiral Edward L. Stitt, Medical Director, Naval Medical School. 
Robert S. Woodward, President, Carnegie Institution of Washington. 
