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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
Charles F. McKenna, New York. 
G. W. Thompson, Chief Chemist, National Lead Company. 
Richard K. Meade, Consulting Chemical Engineer, Brooklyn. 
Hugh K. Moore, Chief Chemist and Chemical Engineer, Berlin Mills Company. 
William C. Carnell, care of Chas. Lennig & Co., Philadelphia. 
2. From the Division of Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy and Geophysics: 
That the following be added to membership in the Sub-Committee on Location of Invisible 
Aircraft of the Physics Committee: 
Henry N. Russell, E. O. Dietrick, O. Stuhlman. 
Upon motion, the acts of the Interim Committee of the Council as reported 
above were ratified and confirmed, and the recommendations submitted from 
the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology and from the Division 
of Phycics, Mathematics, Astronomy and Geophysics, were approved and the 
appointments made. 
A vote of thanks to Mr. Bogert was offered and adopted, in appreciation of 
his successful labors and effective cooperation as Chairman of the Division of 
Chemistry and Chemical Technology. The resignations of Mr. Conklin 
and of Mr. Holmes were also accepted with expression of appreciation of the 
valuable work they accomplished. 
Votes of thanks and appreciation were adopted relative to the donations for 
the work of the Council, received from the Rockefeller Foundation and from 
Dr. W. W. Keen. 
Upon nomination of the Chairman, Mr. Noyes was elected Chairman of the 
Administrative Division of the Council. 
Upon nomination of the Chairman, the President of the National Academy 
of Sciences was requested to appoint the following additional member of the 
Council: 
Walter S. Gilford, Director, Council of National Defense. 
Upon motion Mr. Gifford was also appointed a member at large of the 
Executive Board of the Council, and a member of the Military Division. 
Mr. French, editor of the Journal of the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers, appeared before the Board, upon the suggestion of Mr. Dunn, and 
explained a proposal previously submitted by this Society to supply titles and 
abstracts of published papers relating to research in engineering and allied 
subjects, offering to place the facilities of their organization at the disposal 
of the Council and its Research Information Committee. With a cordial 
vote of thanks to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for this evi- 
dence of continued assistance to and cooperation with the Research Council, 
the Executive Board accepted the offer submitted by Mr. French, and accord- 
ingly the Research Information Committee was authorized to formulate definite 
methods for effective cooperation. 
Mr. Walcott called attention to the fact that by action of the Executive 
Committee of the Research Council, in January, 1917, all government ap- 
pointees of the Council residing in Washington became thereupon members 
of the Military Committee. Discussion revealed the desirability of limiting 
