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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
The work in' Animal Nutrition is being continued in accordance with the 
project already approved. Plans for a conference of the collaborators of this 
project have been formulated and the Committee will meet for a special con- 
ference early this fall. The work is proceeding satisfactorily. 
The Committee on Zoology has been cooperating with the Department of 
Agriculture in calling attention to the methods of destroying rats and mice to 
prevent their depredations on stored food products. Through the Council of 
National Defense an urgent appeal is being sent to all State Councils to utilize 
the valuable methods recommended by the Department of Agriculture to fight 
this pest. 
The Division is cooperating with the Division of Geology and Geography in 
gathering information from various colleges in the country as to modifications 
of courses of instruction to meet war conditions. 
MINUTES OF JOINT MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD AND THE 
COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
At the National Research Council Building, September 9, 1918 at 9.50 a.m. 
Present: Messrs. Abbott, Dunn, Gregory, Hale, Howe, Johnston, Kellogg, 
Lester, Manning, Mendenhall, Millikan, Noyes, Pearce, Pupin, Stratton, 
Yerkes, and by invitation Durand, Flexner, and Gunnell. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting, and of the intervening meetings of 
the Interim Committee, having been circulated by mail, were approved. 
In considering the request of Dr. Schuster of the Royal Society as to the 
utility of the International Catalog of Scientific Literature, Mr. L. C. Bunnell 
described the present organization of the International Catalog and the diffi- 
culties under which it has been operating since the war began. 
Mr. Noyes moved: That, before continuing the publication of the International Catalog, 
full consideration be given to the practicability of securing cooperation and avoiding duplica- 
tion in the whole field, including the preparation of indexes, bibliographies, and abstracts of 
scientific literature. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That the Chairman of the Research Council, Mr. Hale, act as a member and 
Chairman of the Research Information Service. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That in the absence of the Chairman, Mr. Noyes, Mr. Merriam act as Chairman 
of the Division of General Relations and Mr. Johnston as Chairman of the Committee on 
Nitrate Investigations. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That a Budget Committee of three be appointed by the Chairman to take charge 
of the accounts of the National Research Council. (Adopted.) 
The Chairman appointed the following Committee: John Johnston, Chairman, Whitman 
Cross, R. S. Woodward. 
Mr. Hale moved: That a small local committee on submarine research work be appointed 
in California, with headquarters at Pasadena, with Professor Harris J. Ryan, of Stanford 
University, as Chairman. (Adopted.) 
The Chairman, Mr. Hale, asked for a discussion of the plans suggested for 
consideration by the Inter-Allied Conference, to be held in London on October 
