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science; the more effective use of existing research funds; the estabhshment of 
research fellowships, research professorships, and research endowments. 
All reports of the National Research Council and of its committees are 
pubhshed in full in these Proceedings, through which members of the 
separate committees may keep in touch with the work in progress in all its 
various fields. 
George Ellery Hale, Chairman. 
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
REPORTS OF MEETINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
The seventh meeting of the Executive Committee of the Research Council 
was held at the office of the Council, New York City, on December 18, 1916. 
Messrs. Carty, Chittenden, Conklin, Dunn, Noyes, Pupin, Stratton, Vaughan, 
Welch, and the Secretary were present; also Mr. M. T. Bogert, Chairman 
of the Chemistry Committee. 
The Secretary reported that the President of the Academy had appointed 
Howard E. Cofiin, William M. Davis, and Franklin H. Martin, members of 
the Council; and that the Chairman of the Council had appointed R. H. 
Chittenden and R. A. MiUikan members of the Executive Committee. 
A communication from the Chairman of the Council was presented stat- 
ing that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, the 
University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Throop College of 
Technology, had appointed Research Committees, constituted as follows : 
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 
Richard C. Maclaurin, president; John R. Freeman, Francis R. Hart, Everett Morss, 
A. D. Little, C. T. Main and Jasper Whiting, /row the Corporation; Charles R. Cross, Harry 
M. Goodwin, Arthur E. Kennelly, Warren K. Lewis, Waldemar Lindgren, Arthur A. Noyes, 
Joseph C. Riley, George C. Whipple, and Edwin B. Wilson, /row the Faculty; and George E. 
Hale and Willis R. Whitney, from the Alumni. 
YALE UNIVERSITY 
Arthur T. Hadley, president; Harry G. Day and John V. Farwell, from the Corporation; 
Ernest W. Brown, Russell H. Chittenden, Treat B. Johnson, James F. McClelland, Ernest 
F. Nichols, and C. E. A. Winslow, from the Faculties; and Edwin M. Herr and William W. 
Nichols, from the Alumni. 
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
Harry Pratt Judson, president; Harold H. Swift, Julius Rosenwald, and Martin A. Ryer- 
son, from the Board of Trustees; R. R. Bensley, Thomas C. Chamberlain, John M. Coulter, 
Albert A. Michelson, Robert A. Millikan, EKakim H. Moore, and Julius Stieglitz, from the 
Faculty; and Raymond Bacon and Frank B. Jewett,/row the Alumni. 
