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It was reported that the Alumni Council of the Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology had appointed a Committee for the Mobilization of Technology 
Resources, for the purposes of "stimulating research at the Institute, tabu- 
lating the various researches that have been or are being conducted by alumni, 
and suggesting, both to the alumni for their consideration and to the faculty 
as subjects for graduating theses. Hues for experiment and research which 
should be of the greatest immediate value." In addition to these research 
functions, this committee is to promote the participation of the alumni in 
movements relating to the national defense and the industrial development 
of the country. The committee has twenty-seven members, including an 
executive committee of five, consisting of I. W. Litchfield, Merton L. Emer- 
son, James P. Munroe, Raymond B. Price, and Charles A. Stone. The Exec- 
utive Committee of the Research Council had adopted at a previous meeting 
the following resolution expressing appreciation and wiUingness to cooperate 
with the Alumni Council: 
Voted that the National Research Council express its appreciation of the proposed plan 
of the Alumni Council of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for stimulating interest 
in research among its alumni and promoting the further introduction of scientific investi- 
gation in the industries with which they may be connected, and its willingness to cooperate 
with the Alumni Council in any way that may prove desirable and practicable. 
The ninth meeting of the Executive Committee was held at the Smithsonian 
Institution in Washington on January 6, 1917. Messrs. Carty, Dunn, Noyes, 
Stratton, Walcott, Welch, and the Secretary were present; also, by invitation 
during the latter part of the meeting, Mr. H. E. Coffin and aU the mihtary 
members of the Research Council, namely, Messrs. Wilham Crozier, J. D. 
Gatewood, W. C. Gorgas, R. S. Griffin, G. O. Squier, and D. W. Taylor. 
The Secretary presented a resolution adopted by the Associated Business 
Papers, Inc., endorsing the work of the Research Council and promising as- 
sistance in giving to its work proper publicity in the trade journals of the 
country. 
It was voted to appoint J. M. Clarke chairman of the Geology Committee, 
W. H. Holmes chairman of the Anthropology Committee, and E. H. Moore 
chairman of the Mathematics Committee. 
It was voted that the Military Section of the Council be hereafter known 
as the Mihtary Committee its functions being further defined, when appro- 
priate, by adding the clause "For Governmental Research Requirements," 
and that the committee consist of the six official representatives of the Army 
and Navy, of the other government appointees residing in Washington, of 
Mr. H. E. Coffin member of the Research Council and of the Advisory Com- 
mission of the Council on National Defense, and of such other persons as may 
be added by the Mihtary Committee or the Executive Committee. CD. 
Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was elected chairman of 
the Mihtary Committee; and (at a subsequent meeting of that committee) 
