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That the committee make plans for research into important reconstruction problems, within 
the scope of the activities of the National Research Council not now being covered and to 
indicate the agencies which should undertake this work. {Adopted.) 
The Chairman read the following letter of July 25, 1918, from Ralph Barton 
Perry, Executive Secretary of the Committee on Education and Special Train- 
ing of the War Department to the Acting Chairman, Mr. Noyes: 
I beg to submit the following vote passed at a meeting of the Executive Committee on 
College Training, held Tuesday, July 23, 1918: 
"Voted to invite the National Research Council to form a committee for the purpose of 
reviewing cases of research men who may be candidates for the Enlisted Reserve Corps." 
Moved: That the Chairman of the National Research Council be authorized to appoint a 
committee of five, of which the Chairman shall be a member, to recommend to the Com- 
mittee on Education and Special Training men of draft age engaged in research of such im- 
portance that it seems desirable to have them assigned to scientific work rather than to purely 
military service. {Adopted.) 
The Chairman appointed the following committee: J. C. Merriam, Chair- 
man, R. A. Millikan, R. M. Pearce, Vernon Kellogg, A. A. Noyes. 
Section on Relations with Educational Institutions and State Committees: — 
Resolved: That the administration of the Section on Relations with Educational Institu- 
tions and State Committees be extended by arranging the work for the United States so that 
it will be related to four districts representing approximately the North Atlantic, Southern, 
North Central, and Pacific Coast-Rocky Mountain regions, and that under the direction of 
this Section a representative resident in each of these regions be appointed to confer with 
Chairmen of local committees, to promote the interests of research, and to care for the rela- 
tions between the Research Council and the local committees. {Adopted.) 
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. — At the preceding meeting 
of the Executive Board the matter of the discontinuance of the Committee on 
Gases Used in Warfare was taken up, but it was decided to defer definite 
action until a recommendation from Mr. Van H. Manning, Chairman of the 
Committee, should be received. Mr. Manning wrote recommending that this 
Committee be discontinued, and it was 
Moved: That in accordance with the recommendation of Mr. Manning, the Committee on 
Gases Used in Warfare be dissolved. {Adopted.) 
The meeting adjourned at 11.45 a.m. 
' • Paul Brockett, Assistant Secretary. 
General statements as to the recent activities of some of the Divisions are 
appended. 
Division of General Relations. — Section on Relations with Educational Institu- 
tions and State Committees. The Section has secured and transmitted reports 
to the War Department Committee on Education and Special Training, on the 
