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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
in consultation with the Chairman of the Botany Committee to select the 
Chairman and members of this subcommittee. 
The appointment cf the Committee on Anthropolgy with the following 
membership was approved: W. H. Holmes, Chairman; Ales Hrdlicka, Secre- 
tary; Charles B. Davenport, Madison Grant, Frederick L. Hoffman, E. A. 
Hooton, George M. Kober, Tom A. Williams. A report of this committee 
was presented, a copy of which had been sent to the Secretary of War, its 
recommendations having also been presented to the General Medical Beard of 
the Council of National Defense. 
The meeting adjourned at 12.10. 
The twenty-fifth meeting of the Executive Committee convened in Room 
518 Munsey Building, Washington, D. C, on July 23, 1917, and was called 
to order at 9.35 a.m. by the Chairman of the Council. 
Messrs. Bogert, Conklin, Dunn, Hale, Millikan, Pearl, Pupin, and Strat- 
ton were present and, by invitation, Messrs. Durand and Mendenhall. 
The Chairman read a letter from Brigadier-General Crozier reporting that 
Col. E. B. Babbitt, a member of the Committee on Noxious Gases of the 
Council, had been appointed to other duty in the War Department, and that 
Capt. Earl J. W. Ragsdale had taken Colonel Babbitt's place in the Bureau 
of Ordnance. Upon his recommendation therefore, Captain Ragsdale was 
substituted as a member of the Committe on Noxious Gases in place of Colonel 
Babbitt. 
Upon recommendation of Dr. Hale, the sum of $100 was appropriated for 
current and miscellaneous expenses of the Astronomy Committee. 
The Chairman stated that, after conference with the Chairman of the 
Botany Committee, he wished to recommend the appointment of Dr. Irving 
W. Bailey of the Bussey Institution as Chairman of a Subcommittee on For- 
estry of the Botany Committee. Upon motion, this appointment was ac- 
cordingly made. 
The Chairman stated that need had arisen for funds to carry on work of 
experimentation in connection with the investigation of devices for the mag- 
netic detection of submarines now in progress by Dr. L. A. Bauer, Director 
of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of 
Washington. He also stated that this work had the approval of the Presi- 
dent of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Upon motion, an appro- 
priation of $500, or as much thereof as may be needed, was made from the 
funds of the Council for the assistance desired in this connection. 
Dr. Hale reported that he had recently visited the work of the special 
committees of the council at Nahant, Massachusetts, and New London, 
Connecticut, outlining the nature of investigations carried on in each place. 
Upon motion, it was voted that an appropriation of $2,000, or as much thereof 
as may be needed, be made to defray the miscellaneous expenses incident to 
the work of the Committee at New London. 
