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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
MEETINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
The twenty-seventh meeting convened in the offices of the Council in the 
Munsey Building, Washington, D. C, on Wednesday, August 15, 1917, and 
was called to order at 6.00 p.m. by the Vice-Chairman, Mr. Millikan. 
Messrs. Bogert, Millikan, Stratton, Vaughan, and, by invitation, Durand 
and Mendenhall were present. 
Mr. Millikan presented a report from the Chairman of the Committee on 
Noxious Gases, recommending an additional appropriation of $662,900, 
which it is estimated will be required for gas warfare investigations for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1018. After discussion, these estimates for ex- 
penditures, which are additional to the original allotment of $175,000 recom- 
mended for such investigations at the meeting of the Executive Committee of 
the Council on May 28, were approved and the Vice-Chairman and Executive 
Officer of the Council were requested to transmit them with such approval 
to the Secretary of War and to the Secretary of the Navy. 
The twenty-eighth meeting convened in the offices of the Council in the 
Munsey Building, Washington, D. C, on Wednesday, August 22, 1917, and 
was called to order at 9.10 a.m. by the Vice-Chairman, Mr. Millikan. 
Messrs. Bogert, Carty, Chittenden, Millikan, Noyes, Pupin, Stiatton, 
Vaughan, and, by invitation, Durand were present. 
The minutes of the meetings of July 31 and August 15 were read and 
approved. . 
Upon motion the Committee approved the action of the Chairman of the 
Council in appointing a special committee to meet once a week to consider 
questions relating to the conduct of affairs of the Council in intervals between 
meetings of the Executive Committee; the membership of this committee to 
consist of Mr. Millikan, chairman, and Messrs. Bogert, Durand, Mendenhall, 
Stratton and Vaughan. 
It was also voted that the minutes of the meetings of this special committee 
be duplicated and distributed regularly to members of the Executive 
Committee. 
Explanation was made of the financial business of the Council and state- 
ments were submitted of the balances available in its three bank accounts. 
Mr. Pupin invited discussion relative to relations which may exist be- 
tween the National Research Council and the Engineering Foundation after 
the termination of the present agreement on September 20, 1917, by which 
the income of the endowment of the Engineering Foundation is made avail- 
able for purposes of the Council. After lengthy discussion the following 
statement expressive of the appreciation and opinion of the Executive Com- 
mittee in this matter was approved and ordered for transmission to the 
Engineering Foundation : 
