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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
is expected to keep in close touch with all of the divisions of the Signal Corps in which re- 
search is carried on or is needed. Its status and connections are shown in the accompanying 
diagram. Its functions are twofold. 
1. To furnish personnel of the research sort to the other divisions when the stiuation 
warrants attaching men of this type to these divisions. 
2. To have a personnel of its own which keeps in intimate contact with all research de- 
< velopment work in other divisions, such as new methods, new devices, new instruments 
and distributes research problems to the research laboratories of the country, university, 
industrial or governmental, with which it is associated. 
Officers in charge of various divisions and services of the Signal Corps in discharging 
responsibility for the effectiveness of their respective services are expected to make use of 
the Science and Research Division to the fullest possible extent. 
By order of the Chief Signal Officer. 
Upon motion this statement was approved by the Executive Committee* 
Mr. Manning suggested that it might be desirable for the Council to ad- 
dress a communication to the chiefs of technical bureaus of the Government, 
offering assistance of the Council in securing adequate representation and co- 
operation in research. He thought it would be desirable for a scientific 
representative to be appointed on the general staff of the Army and to have 
subordinate representatives to aid in the correlation of the research work of 
the bureaus of the War and Navy Departments. 
Mr. MiUikan reported that the Engineering Foundation had appointed a 
special committee consisting of Messrs. Pupin, Goss and Rand to confer with 
the National Research Council with regard to relations which may appropri- 
ately exist between these organizations in the future. Upon motion a special 
.committee or three members of the Research Council was correspondingly 
authorized to confer with the special committee of the Engineering Foundation 
on this subject. Mr. MiUikan was appointed chairman of this committee 
and Mr. Carty as a member, these two gentlemen being given the power to 
name the third member of the committee. 
The meeting adjourned at 4.20 p.m. 
The thirty-first meeting of the Executive Committee convened in the 
offices of the Council, Munsey Building, Washington, B. C., September 19, 
1917, and was called to order at 9.05 a.m. by the Chairman of the Committee, 
Mr. Carty. 
Messrs. Carty, Dunn, MiUikan, Noyes, Pearl, Stratton, Vaughan, and 
Welch were present, and by invitation, Messrs. Durand, Jewett, Manning, 
Mendenhall, Paton and Watson. 
The minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Committee of August 22 
and of special meetings of the Committee of September 5 and September 13 
were read and approved. 
The Executive Officer reported: 
1. That a lease for the year endijig August 31, 1918, was signed by the 
