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NOTES FROM THE MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS IN JANUARY AND 
FEBRUARY, 1920, OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD AND INTERIM 
COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. 
At the meeting of the Executive Board, February 14, the Chairman 
of the Committee on Publication reported that the first number of the 
Bulletin Series had been issued and that five numbers of the Reprint and 
Circular Series are in the hands of the printers. A considerable number of 
subscriptions have already been received for the Bulletin Series and re- 
quests from several libraries and individuals have been received for the 
Reprint and Circular Series as the numbers become available. 
The Chairman of the Research Information Service reported the status 
of several projects which are being undertaken by that Division; first, 
the preparation of a catalogue of research laboratories or organizations to 
include all laboratories throughout the country in which research is fostered; 
second, the preparation of information concerning current investigations 
which will involve securing data from five or six hundred educational 
institutions and from thousands of independent workers and laboratories; 
and, third, a file of the scientific personnel of the United States, for which 
the names of about twelve thousand investigators have already been 
collected. 
The Chairman of the Division of Physical Sciences presented a resolu- 
tion passed by the Mathematical Association of America requesting repre- 
sentation in th^ Council through a separate Division of Mathematics. 
The matter was discussed at some length and referred to the Division of 
Physical Sciences for recommendation. 
The Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology 
stated that the annual dues of the United States to the International 
Chemical Union are 4500 francs, and that, at the request of the constituent 
societies of the Division that they be permitted to share in this expense, 
an agreement has been reached whereby the Division of Foreign Relations 
shall pay one-half the amount, the balance to be paid by the Division of 
Chemistry and Chemical Technology through its constituent societies. 
The American Geophysical Union was made a committee of the Ex- 
ecutive Board of the National Research Council. 
LECTURE AND KXHIBIT 
Mr. J. J. Carty, Vice-President of the American Telephone and Tele- 
graph Company and member of the Executive Board and of the Division 
of Research Extension of the National Research Council, gave a lecture, 
under the auspices of the Council, February 6, in the auditorium of the 
new National Museum on "Science and the Industries." This lecture was 
illustrated by an exhibition of a number of pieces of apparatus of great 
