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Chairman of its Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, and Research Chemist 
of the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company. Both these men are resident in Wash- 
ington and will devote a large part of their time to the work. 
For the Nitrate Division For National Research Council 
(Signed) J. W. Joyes, (Signed) George E. Hale, 
Col. Ord. U.S.A. Chairman, 
(Signed) John Johnston, 
Secretary, 
(Signed) Arthur A. Noyes, 
Chairman of Nitrate Committee. 
I recommend that this joint report be approved: 
(Signed) W. S. Peirce, 
Brig. Gen. Ord. N. L. Acting Chief of Ordnance. 
1st Ind. 
Office of Second Assistant Secretary of War. To the Acting Chief of Ordnance. 
1. Forwarded. Approved. 
(Signed) Edw. R. Stettinius, 
Second Assistant Secretary of War. 
Division of General Relations. — The name of the Administrative Division 
was changed to Division of General Relations (including Foreign Relations, 
State Council Relations, Industrial Relations, and Relations with Educational 
Institutions). The Chairman gave a general account of its recent activities. 
Committee on Relations with Educational Institutions. — The Chairman, 
Mr. .Merriam, said that at the request of the Committee on Education and 
Special Training, the question of the reorganization of the courses in colleges 
and universities to meet war purposes had been considered, and that the Di- 
vision of Geology and Geography had formulated plans for the reorganization 
of methods of presenting new courses or modifications of courses in the fields 
covered by that Division. It was 
Moved: That the Council express an interest in the scheme which the Committee on 
Education and Special Training has in preparation and a willingness to assist the Com- 
mittee in such ways as it may desire. {Adopted.) 
Research Information Committee. — S. L. G. Knox was named Scientific 
Attache of the American Embassy at Rome, and Edgar Buckingham, of the 
Bureau of Standards, was elected Technical Assistant to the Scientific Attache 
at Rome. 
Mr. Noyes brought up for consideration the work of the Research Informa- 
tion Committee and presented the following order from the War Depart- 
ment in regard to the part that the Army would take in cooperating with the 
National Research Council in the securing and distributing of information: 
