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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
ductory Meteorology, a book of about one hundred and fifty pages, has been 
written largely by officers of the United States Weather Bureau. In the 
preparation of Military Geology and Topography the Acting Chairman has 
had the assistance of geologists and geographers in Government Bureaus and 
in universities. 
4. Suggestions for training in map making and map interpretation in Army 
Camps, prepared largely by Mr. C. P. Berkey of Columbia University, have 
been submitted for discussion. 
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD 
At the National Research Council Building October 8, 1918, at 9.45 a.m. 
Present: Messrs. Bogert, Cross, Dunn, Howe, Merriam, Millikan, Rous, 
Washburn, and Woodward. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting, and of the intervening meetings of 
the Interim Committee, having been circulated by mail, were approved. 
Mr. Dunn moved: That the following elections by the Interim Committee for membership 
in the National Research Council be recommended to the President of the National Acad- 
emy of Sciences for appointment as members of the Council: Vice Chairmen, W. J. Lester 
(Engineering Division), E. W. Washburn (Division of Chemistry), Peyton Rous (Division 
of Medicine), and A. F. Woods (Division of Agriculture), together with C. E. Munroe, 
Chairman of the Committee on Explosives Investigations, and W. H. Howell, Acting Chair- 
man of the Physiology Committee. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That the whole matter of membership in the National Research Council be con- 
sidered at a later meeting of the Board, at which time fuller information as to the appoint- 
ment of members and recommendation for further appointment will be presented. 
(Adopted.) 
Moved: That the election of the following as members of the Section on Industrial Re- 
search be confirmed: John Johnston, Chairman, L. H. Baekeland, G. K. Burgess, F. G. 
Cottrell, A. D. Flinn, C. E. K. Mees, Walter Rautenstrauch, W. R. Whitney. (Adopted.) 
• Moved: That the election of the following as members of the Advisory Committee of the 
Division of General Relations be confirmed: Theodore N. Vail, Chairman, Cleveland H. 
Dodge, George Eastman, E. H. Gary, A. W. Mellon, Pierre S. duPont, H. S. Pritchett, E. 
W. Rice, Jr., Elihu Root and Ambrose Swasey. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That Peyton Rous be appointed Vice Chairman of the Division of Medicine and 
Related Sciences, in place of Major Yerkes resigned, and that he also be considered a mem- 
ber of the Executive Committee of said Division. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That the pamphlet showing |the present war organization of the Council be 
printed as of the present date. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That the work of the National Research Council is of such importance to the 
Government that request might be made for deferred classification of men indispensable 
to its work; that office employees not engaged in research could not be considered as indis- 
pensable; and that cases of married men with 'families should be allowed to rest on the 
statement of the questionnaire, unless special circumstances make necessary a request for 
exemption. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That the action of the Treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences in in- 
vesting funds of the National Research Council, on deposit with the National Academy of 
Sciences, in readily negotiable bonds, be approved. (Adopted.) 
