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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
Committee on the Physiology of Shock. — Elected to membership on this 
Committee: 
G. N. Stewart, of Western Reserve University. 
Committee on Neurology and Psychiatry. — The name of this Committee was 
changed to " Committee on Neurology and Psychiatry;" and E. E. Southard 
of the State Psychopathic Hospital of Massachusetts was appointed Acting 
Chairman with authority to reorganize the Committee; the present Chairman, 
Stewart Paton, now in active military service, remaining nominally as 
Chairman. 
Committee on Toxicity of Preserved Foods. — The following names were 
approved as members of this Committee: 
J. J. Abel, Professor of Pharmacology, Johns Hopkins Medical School, 
Chairman. 
M. J. Rosenau, Professor of Preventive Medicine, Harvard Medical School. 
Sub-Committee on the Study of Fatigue in Relation to Industrial Pursuits. — ■ 
Upon recommendation of the Chairman, F. S. Lee, the membership of this 
Committee was completed by adding the members of the Committee on In- 
dustrial Fatigue of the Division of Labor of the Council of National Defense, 
the Committee as enlarged being as follows: 
Frederic S. Lee, Professor of Physiology, Columbia University, Chairman. 
Thomas Darlington, Secretary Welfare Committee, American Iron and 
Steel Institute. 
Robert E. Chaddock, Associate Professor of Statistics, Columbia University. 
Raymond Dodge, Professor of Psychology, Wesleyan University. 
David L. Edsall, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School. 
P. Sargent Florence, Organizing Secretary of the Committee of the 
British Association for the Advancement of Science, appointed to investigate 
Fatigue from the Economic Standpoint. 
Josephine Goldmark, Publication Secretary, National Consumers' League. 
Ernest G. Martin, Professor of Physiology, Leland Stanford University. 
J. W. Schereschewsky, Officer in Charge of Field Investigations in Occu- 
pational Diseases and Industrial Hygiene, Public Health Service. 
Ernest L. Scott, Associate in Physiology, Columbia University, Captain 
Sanitary Corps, U. S. A, 
A. W. Ryan. 
Division of Agriculture, etc. — The Chairman of the Division, Mr. Kellogg, 
reported that A. F. Woods, of Maryland State Agricultural College, has been 
elected Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, and Vice Chairman 
of the Division; and that the following problems were under consideration: 
Tropical Hardwoods, Fish Preserving, Rodent Pests. 
Special Committee on Sisal and Sisal Substitution. — This committee has been 
formed for the consideration of the problem of sisal and sisal substitution for 
use as binder twine, with E. M. East, Bussey Institution, as Chairman. 
