NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
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The seventeenth meeting of the Executive Committee was held at the 
offices of the Council in Washington, April 11, 1917. Messrs. Hale, Stratton, 
and the Secretary were present. Dr. Walcott was consulted by telephone 
and approved the proceedings. There was also present Dr. MacCallum, of 
the Canadian Research Council. 
Professor R. W. Wood, of Johns Hopkins University and Professor Arthur 
Gordon Webster, of Clark University, were nominated members of the 
Council, 
A Food Committee was authorized. Dr. Hale to name the Chairman and 
the personnel of the Committee. • 
Dr. Hale announced the appointment of Professor H. H. Donaldson of the 
Wistar Institute, as Chairman of the Anatomy Committee. This appoint- 
ment carries with it appointment to the Council. 
A Committee on Psychology was authorized, Dr. Hale to name the Chair- 
man, who will be a member of the Council. 
Dr. Millikan was elected a Vice-Chairman of the Council. 
The eighteenth meeting of the Executive Committee was held at the offices 
of the Council in Washington, April 16, 1917. Messrs. Carty, Chittenden, 
Conklin, Hale, Noyes, Pearl, Walcott, and the Secretary were present. 
This meeting was called at the suggestion of Dr. Noyes to discuss the pro- 
posed relations of the National Research Council with the State Research 
Committees of Councils, which may be appointed in different states of the 
Union. The immediate occasion was the appointment of a State Research 
Committee in California. It was voted to telegraph to the State Research 
Committee of California, an expression of a desire to co-operate with them, 
and to follow this telegram with a letter of explanation. 
It was voted to request the President of the National Academy of Sciences 
to appoint Mr. John R. Freeman, and Professor John C. Merriam members 
of the Council. 
The action of the Military Committee in appointing a Noxious Gas Com- 
mittee was approved. 
An Optical Glass Committee was authorized, with Dr. MiUikan as 
Chairman. 
Mr. John R. Freeman was appointed a member of the Engineering 
Committee. 
The nineteenth meeting of the Executive Committee was held at the offices 
of the Council in Washington, May 3, 1917. Messrs. Carty, Dunn, Hale, 
Noyes, Pupin, Stratton, and the Secretary were present. 
Dr. Pupin spoke of the urgent necessity for further information on the 
status of the submarine detection investigation. He urged that all members 
of the Council who are working on the matter be informed regarding the 
tests which have already been made and that opportunity be given to take 
