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Executive Officer of th'e Council on September 10 for rooms 323 to 335, both 
inclusive, in the Munsey Building, Washington, D. C. 
2. That Messrs. Dunn and Noyes have been added as members of the 
special committee of the Council, appointed at its meeting of September 13, 
to confer with a committee of the Engineering Foundation with regard to 
future relations between these organizations. 
3. That Dr. L. R. Williams and Dr. R. P. Strong, members of the Foreign 
Service Committee of the Council, have submitted extensive reports with 
reference to their observations abroad on sanitary and medical questions. 
Copies of Dr. Williams' report have been distributed to officials o\ the Govern- 
ment, of the American National Red Cross, of the Rockefeller Institute for 
Medical Research and of the General Medical Board of the Council of National 
Defense, and numerous papers and documents which accompanied the report 
have been deposited with the last named organization. Steps are being taken 
to make a similar distribution of Dr. Strong's report and a similar disposition 
of his material. 
4. That an additional amount of $5,000 has been deposited by the Carnegie 
Institution of Washington in the Riggs National Bank to the credit of the 
National Research Council from the appropriation of $50,000 made for this 
purpose by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. 
5. That the Chairman of the Committee on Gases used in Warfare has 
reported that the Surgeon General of the Navy has designated P. A. Surgeon 
Joseph R. Phelps, U. S. N., on duty in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 
as a member of this Committee to take the place of Medical Director James D. 
Gatewood, U. S. N., detached, and that the Chief of Engineers, U. S. A., has 
designated Captain Earl J. Atkinson, Corps of Engineers, to represent the 
office of the Chief of Engineers at meetings of the Committee on Gases used 
in Warfare. 
A financial statement was presented, showing expenditures and balances 
available in the three bank accounts of the Council. 
After explanation by Mr. Welch, it was voted that, acknowledging receipt 
of reports submitted by members of the Foreign Service Committee, the 
Executive Committee extends its appreciation of the admirable work accom- 
plished by the separate members of this Committee. 
Mr. Paton, upon invitation, submitted a report with regard to the proposed 
cooperative work of the Sub-committee on Psychiatry on the subject of shell 
shock and the desirability of the maintenance of intensive work of this char- 
acter abroad. 
Mr. MiUikan presented an outHne of the present activities of the Physics 
and Submarine Committees of the Council and explained the features of the 
work of the Council in cooperation with the U. S. Signal Corps, particularly 
as evidence of desirable relations which may similarly be established with other 
bureaus of the War and Navy Departments. 
