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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
MINUTES OF THIRD MEETING OF EXECUTIVE BOARD OF WAR 
ORGANIZATION 
Tuesday, April 30, 1918 
The meeting convened at 9.30 a.m. in the offices of the Council at 1023 
Sixteenth Street, with Mr. Hale, Chairman of the Council, in the chair. 
Present: Whitman Cross, George E. Hale, Henry M. Howe, John Johnston, 
Vernon Kellogg, Van H. Manning, John C. Merriam, Robert A. Millikan, 
Richard M. Pearce, S. W. Stratton, Charles D. Walcott, William H. Welch, 
Robert S. Woodward, and Robert M. Yerkes, and by invitation, Graham 
Edgar. 
The minutes of the Second Meeting of the Executive Board of the War 
Organization, of March 26, 1918, were presented and approved. 
The Chairman of the Council reported: 
1. That a suggestion for the International Organization of Science and Research has been 
submitted to and approved by the Council of the National Academy of Sciences and has 
been forwarded to the President of the United States and to the Secretary of State for rati- 
fication, and to representatives of the /\cademy abroad, for presentation, if ratified, at a 
preliminary international conference of scientific academies to be held in London on May 8, 
1918. 
The Chairman of the Council presented the following report of action taken 
by the Interim Committee of the Executive Board of the Council at meetings 
held on Thursday, April 18, and Monday, April 29. 
1. That the following appointments have been made: 
Arthur A. Noyes, Chairman of Interim Committee. 
J. C. Meniam, Chairman of Section on Relations with Educational Institutions and State 
Research Councils. 
Henry M. Howe, Chairman of Engineering Division. 
L. H. Baekeland, Acting Chairman of the Patent Office Committee. 
C. E. McClung, member and acting Chairman of Zoology Committee. 
Oakes Ames and C. E. McClung, members of Executive Committee of Division of Agri- 
culture, Botany and Zoology. 
John W. Baird, Professor of Psychology, Clark University, Vice-Chairman of Psychology 
Committee. 
Rufus I. Cole, Director of Rockefeller Hospital, member of Executive Committee of 
Division of Medicine and Related Sciences. 
Reid Hunt, Professor of Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Representative of medi- 
cal profession as member of Patent Ofhce Committee. 
E. G. Martin, Professor of Physiology, Leland Stanford University, member of Sub- 
Committee on Muscular Work and Fatigue of Physiology Committee. 
Dwight W. Fisher, Chief Clerk of the Council. 
2. That the resignation of Colonel William H. Walker as Vice-Chairman of the Division 
of Chemistry and Chemical Technology has been accepted. 
3. That the following have hitherto accepted appointment as members of the Advisory 
Committee of the Section on Industrial Research: Elihu. Root, Theodore N. Vail, Henry S. 
