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8. That Mechanician William Duryea be taken into the employ of the Signal 
Corps at a salary of $1500 per annum and that Mr. Sanford P. Wicks now enlisted 
in the 3rd Ambulance Company, National Guards, State of New York, be trans- 
ferred to the Signal Corps and assigned to mechanical work under Mr. Duryea and 
that Major Trowbridge be authorized to hire one other man as a mechanic at cur- 
rent wages. 
The twenty-ninth meeting convened in the offices of the Council in the 
Munsey Building, Washington, D. C, on Wednesday, September 5, 1917, 
and was called to order at 4.30 p.m. by the Vice -Chairman, Mr. Millikan. 
Messrs. Bogert, Carty, Dunn, Millikan, Stratton, Vaughan, and, by invi- 
tation, Colpitts, Durand, Manning, Mendenhall and Yerkes were present. 
Mr. Millikan emphasized the importance of maintaining the Coimcil as a 
centralizing agency for the activities of its committees and for the scientific 
interests which may be entrusted to it by various departments of the govern- 
ment. In this connection discussion took place relative to the detail of drafted 
men for scientific services in the army. Further discussion led to a consensus 
of opinion, which was recorded in the form of a motion, that, as a matter of 
policy in submitting requests for the detail of such men, it would be advisable to 
secure their services as privates with the understanding that additional re- 
quest would subsequently be made for the appointment of a due proportion of 
them, as occasion demands, as commissicned officers. 
Discussion took place concerning a proposed organization of American 
engineers urgently requested by French officials for services at the Front. The 
Executive Officer of the Council was requested to confer with the Chief Engi- 
neer, U. S. A., and offer the services of the Council in this connection. 
Mr. Yerkes, Chairman of the psychology Committee submitted a report 
relative to the current development of the work of this Committee in con- 
nection with military needs. 
After explanation by the Executive Officer the name of the Committee on 
Noxious Gases was changed to read "Committee on Gases used in Warfare." 
He also reported that upon order of the Surgeon General, U. S. A», Major 
Williamson, a member of this Committee, has been detailed for other duty and 
that Major Bradley Dewey of the U. S. Sanitary Corps has been appointed in 
his place as a member of the Committee on Gases used in Warfare. The 
Chairman of this Committee was furthermore authorized to appoint a repre- 
sentative of the Engineer Corps of the Army and to select a successor to Dr. 
Gatewood as additional members of the Committee. 
Upon motion of the Chairman of the Chemistry Committee the following 
were appointed as members of the 
Suh-Commitiee on the Chemistry of Fertilizers: F. G. Cottrell, Bureau of Mines, 
Washington, D. C; Hoyt Gale, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C; Bailey 
E. Brown, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washing- 
ton, D. C; Jacob G. Lipman, New Jersey Experiment Station, New Brunswick, 
New Jersey. 
Gary T. Hutchinson, Secretary. 
