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personnel be determined by conference between members of the Executive 
Committee and the presidents of the national engineeing societies, in order 
that the full cooperation of the engineers of the country might be secured. 
It was voted that a Committee on Anatomy be authorized and that Dr. 
Hale be requested to nominate its chairman. 
At this point the meeting adjourned, and the members assembled at a 
luncheon kindly provided by Dr. and Mrs. Walcott. Members of the Council 
of National Defense and its Advisory Commission, namely, Messrs. Godfrey, 
Cofi&n, and Gifford, joined the members of the Council at luncheon. 
The members reassembled thereafter in conference with the members of the 
Council of National Defense; and, after an explanation by Dr. Carty of the 
formation and scope of the work of the National Research Council, the rela- 
tions of the two bodies were discussed. 
The thirteenth meeting of the Executive Committee was held on February 
26, 1917. Messrs. Carty, Dunn, Pupin, and the Secretary were present. 
The particular object of the meeting was to consider a resolution to be 
forwarded to the Council of National Defense, defining the form of relations 
that the National Research Council desires to hold with the Council of National 
Defense. After full discussion, the following resolution was adopted: 
Resolved: That the National Research Council, established at the request of the Presi- 
dent of the United States for the organization and promotion of scientific research in the in- 
terest of national defense and national welfare, is of the opinion that its services to the 
National Government in its cooperation with the Council of National Defense will be most 
efifective if acting directly with the Council of National Defense through its Director. 
The Secretary was instructed to transmit this to the Director of the Council 
of National Defense as an expression of the attitude of the Research Council. 
The fourteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the National 
Research Council was held on March 7, 1917. Messrs. Carty, Chittenden, 
Conklin, Dunn, Stratton, and the Secretary were present. 
The Secretary announced the completion of the Committees on Astronomy, 
Agriculture, Physiology, Geology; and stated that the Committees on Botany, 
Zoology, and Anthropology have not yet been completed. He reported Dr. 
Hale's recommendation that a Committee on Anatomy be authorized. 
Messrs. John C. Merriam and Charles R. Cross were appointed members 
of the Census Committee. 
The Secretary reported that Carl L. Alsberg and Alonzo E. Taylor have 
been appointed members of the National Research Council by the President 
of the National Academy of Sciences. 
The Secretary read the offer of the faculty of Sloane Laboratory of Yale 
University of its services and facilities, to the National Research Council 
for research work for national defense. Dr. Stratton presented letters with 
similar offers from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the General 
