NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
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Mr. Dunn reported that the United Engineering Society had granted for a 
period of one year from October 1, 1916, free of assessment, rooms number 
901 and 902, for the use of the Engineering Foundation, to serve as New York 
office for the National Research Council, these rooms being those about to be 
vacated by the Naval Consulting Board. 
After considerable discussion of the financial affairs of the Council it was 
voted that a Committee on Finance, to consist of three members, should be 
appointed by the Chairman to consider the question of obtaining additional 
funds for the Research Council and the method of handhng such funds as it 
has or as it may acquire. 
It was voted to recommend to the President of the Academy that Dr. Mars- 
ton T. Bogert, of Columbia University, Dr. Russell H, Chittenden, of Yale 
University, and Dr. Raymond Pearl, of the Maine Agricultural Experiment 
Station, be invited to become members of the Council. 
It was voted that joint committees on research in various branches of 
science be formed in cooperation with the corresponding national scientific 
societies. 
Dr. Vaughan was also asked to report on the need of research in the prepa- 
ration of therapeutic agents. 
Dr. S. W. Stratton of the Bureau of Standards, and Dr. Raymond Pearl of 
the Maine Agricultural Station were appointed members of the Executive 
Committee by the Chairman of the Research Council. 
Cary T. Hutchinson, Secretary. 
ORGANIZATION OF THE RESEARCH COUNCIL 
The National Research Council was formally organized at a meeting held 
in New York City on September 20, 1916. It was estabhshed by the National 
Academy of Sciences at the request of the President of the United States. 
The members of this Council have been appointed by the President of the 
Academy, after consultation with the presidents of leading national scientific 
societies. The representatives of the Government were appointed by the 
President of the United States. The Council is to be gradually enlarged by 
the addition of new members who are to serve as chairmen of important com- 
mittees or who are otherwise to engage in some special capacity in the work 
of the Council. 
The organization of the Council is at present as follows : 
OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
Chairman, George E. Hale. 
Vice-Chairmen^ Charles D. Walcott and Gano Dunn. 
Secretary, Cary T. Hutchinson. 
Executive Committee, John J. Carty (Cliaimian), William H. Welch (ex officio), George 
E. Hale (ex officio), Edwin G. Conklin, Gano Dunn, Arthur A. Noyes, Ray- 
mond Pearl, Michael I. Pupin, S. W. Stratton, V. C. Vaughan (others to be 
appointed) . 
