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At 9.50 the Chairman announced that the meeting would resolve itself 
into a joint meeting of the Executive Committee and of the Military Com- 
mittee of the Council, to hear reports and recommendations of the members 
of the Foreign Service Committee who had returned from Europe. (A report 
of this conference will appear later.) 
The twenty-sixth meeting of the Executive Committee convened in the 
offices of the Council in the Munsey Building, Washington, D. C, on July 
31, 1917, and was called to order at 10.10 a.m. by the Chairman of the Council. 
Messrs. Hale, Noyes, Pearl, Stratton, Vaughan, and, by invitation, Dr. 
Durand, were present. 
The Chairman reported the recent death of Dr. William Bullock Clark, 
Chairman of the Subcommittee on Roads and Road Metals of the Geology 
Committee of the Council. 
The question of defraying the cost of publication of articles relative to the 
work of the National Research Council in the Proceedings of the National 
Academy of Sciences was discussed and, upon motion of Dr. Noyes, it was 
voted to appropriate from time to time such sums as may be necessary to 
pay the cost on a pro rata basis of space used, of publishing all such reports 
and articles. 
Upon recommendation of the Chairman of the Chemistry Committee, 
the following appointments were made to membership in Subcommittees 
of this Committee. 
Suh-Committee on Biochemistry: Prof. Frank P. Underhill, Yale University, New Haven 
Conn.; Chairman, to replace Dr. A. E. Taylor, resigned. 
Sub-Committee on the Chemistry of Ceramics: Mr. A. V. Bleininger, U. S. Bureau of 
Standards, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mr. L. E. Barringer, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. 
Sub-Committee on the Chemistry of Leather: Mr. Fritz H. Small, 38 Berwick Street, 
Worcester, Mass.; Mr. John H. Yocum, 325 Academy Street, Newark, N. J.; Mr. H. C. 
Reed, 227 Fulton Street, New York City. 
Sub-Committee on the Chemistry of Forest Products: Dr. C. P. Winslow, Forest Products 
Laboratory, Madison, Wis. 
Sub-Committee on the Chemistry of Dyestuffs: Mr. Wm. M. Grosvenor, 50 East 41st 
Street, New York City; Mr. L. DaCosta Ward, 320 So. Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; 
Mr. R. C. Huston, Michigan Agricultural College, East Lansing, Mich. 
Sub-Committee on the Chemistry of Fermentation: Dr. H. S. Paine, U. S. Dept. of Agri- 
culture, Washington, D. C; Dr. Max Henius, 1135 FuUerton Avenue, Chicago, 111. 
Sub-Committee on Synthetic Drugs: Dr. W. A. Puckner, 535 North Dearborn Street, 
Chicago, 111.; Prof. Moses Gomberg, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Prof. 
Roger Adams, University of Illinois;, Uibana, 111. 
Dr. Hale reported that he soon expects to return to California, and discus- 
sion took place thereupon relative to the conduct of affairs of the Council 
during his absence. It was voted that meetings of the Executive Committee 
of the Council he held hereafter about once a month, or at such times as busi- 
ness demands, and that natices of such meetings be sent in advance accom- 
panied by tentative orders of business. 
