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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
Resolved, That future appointments to membership in the National Research Council 
shall be limited to the period of the war, and that the terms of office of all members of the 
Council, as such, shall expire at the end of the war, pending the establishment of a permanent 
organization for the Council. 
Upon motion, the President of the National Academy of Sciences was 
requested to appoint the following additional members of the Council, who, at 
present, are members of Executive Committees of Divisions: 
Oakes Ames, Assistant Professor of Botany, Harvard University. 
Irving W. Bailey, Assistant Professor of Forestry, Harvard University. 
Louis A. Bauer, Director, Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie In- 
stitution of Washington. 
Karl F. Kellerman, Associate Chief, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. 
of Agriculture. 
Burton E. Livingston, Professor of Plant Physiology, Johns Hopkins 
University. 
Clarence E. McClung, Director of Zoological Laboratory, University of 
Pennsylvania. 
Henry F. Moore, Deputy Commissioner, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 
Ernest F. Nichols, professor of Physics, Yale University. 
F. R. Moulton, Professor of Astronomy, University of Chicago. 
Henry N. Russell, Professor of Astronomy, Princeton University. 
Wallace C. Sabine, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philos- 
ophy, Harvard University. 
Frank Schlesinger, Director, Allegheny Observatory. 
Raphael Zon, Chief, Office of Forest Investigation, U. S. Forest Service. 
Rufus Cole, Director, Hospital of Rockefeller Institute. 
The Chairman of the Council outlined the financial needs of the various 
Divisions of the Council, referring particularly to proposed activities of the 
Division of Engineering and of the Division of Agriculture, Botany, and Zoology 
and emphasized the necessity for the preparation of a budget for the Council. 
Upon motion, the Chairman was requested to appoint a special committee to 
construct such a budget, with instructions to confer with the Chairman of 
Divisions relative to respective needs, and to report at the next meeting of 
the Interim Committee, the Chairman of the Council to be an ex officio mem- 
ber. The other members of the Committee were appointed by the Chairman 
as follows: Arthur A. Noyes, Chairman, Whitman Cross, John C. Merriam. . 
The meeting adjourned at 11.50 a.m. with the understanding that the next 
meeting of the Executive Board will be held as authorized on Tuesday, June 
11, 1918, at 9.30 a.m. 
John Johnston, Secretary. 
