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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
MINUTES OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE 
WAR ORGANIZATION IN JOINT SESSION WITH THE COUNCIL OF THE 
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Tuesday, March 26, 1918 
The meeting convened at 9.30 a.m. in the offices of the National Research 
Council, 1023 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. C, with President Walcott 
of the National Academy of Sciences, in the chair. 
Present: Members of Council of National Academy of Sciences: Whitman 
Cross, George E. Hale, Arthur A. Noyes, Charles D. Walcott; members of 
Executive Board of National Research Council: Whitman Cross, Gano Dunn, 
George E. Hale, John Johnston, Vernon L. Kellogg, Charles E. Mendenhall, 
Robert A. Millikan, Arthur A. Noyes, Richard M. Pearce, S. W. Stratton, 
Charles D. Walcott, and Robert S. Woodward, and by invitation: Henry M. 
Howe and S. L. G. Knox. 
The minutes of the first meeting of the Executive Board of the War Organiza- 
tion of the Research Council, of February 26, 1918, were presented and approved. 
The Chairman of the Research Council reported: 
1. That the Rockefeller Foundation has made an appropriation of $50,000 to provide for 
the expenses of the Division of Medicine and Related Sciences for the period from March 1 
to December 31, 1918, and that sums, as needed, from this appropriation, will be deposited 
with the National Academy of Sciences for disbursement upon approval of the Chairman of 
this Division. 
2. That Dr. W. W. Keen has donated the sum of $382.22 for the work of the Council, 
and that this amount, representing proceeds from sales of a book entitled The Treatment of 
War Wounds, which was prepared by him in connection with his activities as a member of the 
Council, has been deposited to the credit of the Council with the National Academy of 
Sciences! 
3. That Graham Edgar has assumed his duties in Washington as Technical Assistant of 
the Research Information Committee, and that W. M. Gilbert will act as Secretary of the 
Washington office of this Committee. 
4. That the Engineering Foundation has approved the designation of the Secretary of the 
Foundation as Assistant Secretary of the National Research Council, as authorized by the 
Executive Board of the Council at its meeting of February 26, 1918; and that the Engineering 
Foundation has reciprocally appointed the Secretary of the National Research Council as an 
Assistant Secretary of the Engineering Foundation. 
The Chairman of the Council submitted the following report of action taken 
by the Interim Committee of the Executive Board of the Council at a meeting 
held on Tuesday, March 19: 
1. That by reason of his appointment as Chief of the Chemical Service Section of the 
National Army, Mr. Bogert has resigned as Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and 
Chemical Technology of the Council, and that upon nomination of the Executive Committee 
of the Division, Mr. John Johnston has been elected Chairman. 
