738 
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
of the activities of the Engineering Committee as explained to members of 
this Committee at its recent meeting in New York. 
Discussion took place concerning the preparation and publication of 
literature regarding the work of the Council, and upon motion, it was decided 
to issue two pamphlets in such form that they may be suitably bound or fas- 
tened together; one of these pamphlets to contain a complete list of the officers 
and members of the Council and of the members of committees and sub- 
committees; the other pamphlet to contain a description of the organization 
and scope of the Council with explanatory statements relative to the purposes 
and activities of its committees. 
Upon recommendation of Dr. Hale, Chairman of the Council, conveyed 
by telegraph, an appropriation of $1000.00 was authorized for the submarine 
work being carried on at the San Pedro Station of the Navy Department 
under the direction of Dr. Hale. 
The meeting adjourned at 12.45. 
The thirty-second meeting convened in the offices of the Council in the 
Munsey Building, Washington, D. C, on Friday, October 19, 1917, and was 
called to order at 9.05 a.m. by the Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Carty. 
Messrs. Bogert, Carty, Chittenden, Conklin, Dunn, Manning, Millikan, 
Noyes, Stratton and Walcott, and, by invitation, C. A. Adams, Durand, 
Kellerman, Mendenhall and Yerkes were present. 
The minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Committee of Septem- 
ber 19 were approved as prepared and distributed to the members of the 
Comntiittee. - # 
The Executive Officer reported: 
1. That the Chairman of the Council has appointed Mr. Manning a mem- 
ber of the Executive Committee and has asked Mr. Welch to serve as an ex- 
officio member. Upon instruction, the name of Dr. Gatewood, former direc- 
tor of the Army Medical School, has been removed from the list of members 
of the Council and of its Mihtary Committee, on account of assignment for 
duty away from Washington. 
2. That the U. S. Navy Department has requested the National Research 
Council, the Naval Consulting Board and the American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers to submit nominations from which one hundred electrical 
engineers may be selected and commissioned as lieutenants, junior grade, 
in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force; and that Mr. Pupin and Mr. Hutchinson 
have been appointed by the Executive Officer to represent the Council on a 
joint committee of these three organizations for the purpose of performing 
the functions required by the Navy Department. 
A financial statement was presented showing expenditures and balances 
available in the bank accounts of the Council. 
Botanical Raw Products Committee. — A letter from the Chairman of this 
Committee was read and, upon motion, he was authorized to invite a member 
