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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
The Chairman presented a letter from the U. S. Commissioner- of Patents 
requesting the co-operation, advice and assistance of the National Research 
Council in questions of organization and conduct of affairs -at the Patent 
Office. Preliminary correspondence with the Commissioner of Patents on 
this subject was also read. After discussion, a special committee consisting 
of Prof. W. F. Durand, Chairman, Dr. R. A. Millikan and Dr. S. W. Stratton, 
was appointed to confer with representatives of the Patent Office and report 
at a subsequent meeting of the Executive Committee relative to appropriate 
action which the Council may take in this matter. 
The meeting adjourned at noon. 
Subject to ratification at the next meeting of the Executive Committee, 
the Chairman subsequently appointed a special committee consisting of Dr, 
Millikan, Chairman, and Messrs. Bogert, Durand, Mendenhall, Stratton. 
and Vaughan, to meet once a week to consider questions relating to the con- 
duct of ajGfairs of the Council in intervals between the meetings of the Exec- 
utive Committee. 
Cary T. Hutchinson, Secretary. 
