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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
MEETINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 
The tenth meeting of the Executive Committee was held at the offices of 
the Council on January 25, 1917. Messrs Carty, Chittenden, Conklin, Dunn, 
Pupin, Vaughan, Welch, and the Secretary were present. 
The Secretary presented Br. Holmes' report, dated January 16th, on the 
composition of the Committee on Anthropology. It was understood that this 
committee will be formed in cooperation with the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, as has been done with other science committees. 
The Secretary presented the following resolution of the National Advisory 
Committee for Aeronautics, accepting designation by the National Research 
Council as the Aeronautical Committee of the Research Council: 
Resolved: That the invitation of the National Research Council that the members of 
the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics act as the Committee on Aeronautics of 
the National Research Council be accepted on appointment of its members by the National 
Research Council as such committee. 
The Executive Committee adopted the following resolutions: 
Resolved: That the National Research Council acknowledges the acceptance by the 
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics of the invitation of the National Research 
Council to serve as its "Aeronautics Committee" and hereby appoints Dr. Charles D. 
Walcott, Chairman, and Dr. Joseph S. A.mes, Prof. Chas. F. Marvin, Prof. M. 1. Pupin, Brig. 
Gen. Geo. O. Squier, and Dr. S. W. Stratton, members of the Aeronautics Committee of the 
National Research Council. 
Resolved: That the Executive Committee of the National Research Council cordially 
thanks the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for its generous action in placing 
its services at the disposal of the National Research Council in this matter. 
Dr. Vaughan then presented the matter of the Medicine and the Hygiene 
Committees, urging that these two committees be merged. After consider- 
able discussion, it was agreed that the former action of the Executive Commit- 
tee creating separate committees for medicine and for hygiene be reconsid- 
ered, and that one committee, to be designated the Medicine and Hygiene 
Committee, be appointed. Dr. Vaughan then presented a list of names for 
this committee; explaining the need of a large committee by the fact that the 
many different aspects of medicine and hygiene must be considered. 
The Executive Committee approved the appointment of the persons hsted 
and authorized the organization of the committee. 
The eleventh meeting of the Executive Committee was held on February 
7, 1917. Messrs. Carty, Dunn, Pupin, and the Secretary were present; also 
Dr. Bogert by invitation. 
The meeting was devoted principally to the discussion of the appointment of 
a committee of submarine detection, recommended in a telegram received from 
