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J. S. Ames, Gilbert A. Bliss, Marston T. Bogert, W. B. Cannon, John J. Carty, J. McKeen Cattell, L. J. Cole, Gano Dunn, W. F. Durand, William J. Hale, R. A. Harper, Ludvig Hektoen, Frank B. Jewett, Vernon Kellogg, A. V. Kidder, Frank R. Lillie, C. E. Mendenhall, John C. Merriam, Harlow Shapley, Charles D. Walcott, David White.

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Executive committee: Chairman, George E. Hale; secretary, Paul Brockett; Arthur L. Day, Vernon Kellogg, John C. Merriam, Charles D. Walcott,1 Fred E. Wright.

TECHNICAL COMMITTEES

Central petroleum committee: Chairman, Hugh S. Taylor, professor of physical chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.; vice chairman, David White; secretary, William J. Hale; L. H. Aḍams, R. P. Anderson, Marston T. Bogert, E. DeGolyer, K. C. Heald, R. A. Millikan, R. L. Welch, Frank C. Whitmore. Committee on Concilium Bibliographicum: Chairman, Vernon Kellogg; B. M. Duggar, J. R. Schramm, Clarence J. West.

Committee on conservation of natural resources (acting as the research council section of the executive committee on natural resources of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Research Council): Chairman, John C. Merriam; J. McKeen Cattell, Vernon Kellogg, C. E. McClung.

Committee on cooperation' with Research Corporation: Chairman, F. G. Cottrell, director, Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, American University, Washington, D. C.; William J. Hale, Maurice Holland.

Committee on international auxiliary language: Chairman, F. G. Cottrell. Committee on Patent Office: Chairman, Edwin J., Prindle, 111 Broadway, New York City; L. H. Baekeland, W. F. Durand, Thomas Ewing, Frederick P. Fish, Reid Hunt, R. A. Millikan, M. I. Pupin, S. W. Stratton, C. P. Townsend. Trustees for publication of, International Critical Tables: Chairman, George P. Adamson, president, General Chemical Co., 40 Rector Street, New York City; secretary, W. M. Corse; H. E. Howe, Hugh K. Moore, M. I. Pupin, Charles L. Reese, Julius Stieglitz.

Editorial board for publication of International Critical Tables: Chairman, Edward W. Washburn, chief chemist, United States Bureau of Standards; editor in chief, International Critical Tables, National Research Council, Washington, D. C.; George K. Burgess, Saul Dushman, John Johnston, Samuel C. Lind, C. E. Mendenhall, R. B. Moore.

Advisory committee to American commissioner on annual tables of constants and numerical data: Chairman, William Duane, professor of biophysics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.; H. E. Howe, Frank B. Jewett, C. E. K. Mees, John F. Thompson. American commissic ner, Edward W. Washburn.

Committee on radio talks: Chairman, W. E. Tisdale; Albert L. Barrows, James Stokley.

Committee of apparatus makers and users: Executive committee-Chairman' W. D. Collins, chief, quality of water division, United States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.; secretary, Paul Moore; George K. Burgess, Arthur L. Day, M. E. Leeds, F. K. Richtmyer, John Roberts.

Members at large: Arthur L. Day, L. A. Jones, Herbert E. Ives, H. B. Williams. Representatives of member organizations: F. G. Breyer, American Society for Testing Materials; H. B. Brooks, George K. Burgess, United States Bureau of Standards; W. G. Cady, American Physical Society; W. D. Coblentz, Optical Society of America; W. D. Collins, American Chemical Society; J. J. Crowe, 1 Deceased.

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American Society for Steel Treating; James Ely, A. W. Hall, Herman K. Kimble, M. E. Leeds, H. G. Ott, J. M. Roberts, Association of Scientific Apparatus Manufacturers of the United States of America; Charles Kerr, American Ceramic Society; I. C. Gardner, Optical Society of America; F. K. Richtmyer, W. E. Tisdale, National Research Council; C. E. Skinner, American Institute of Electrical Engineers; J. W. Stillman, Manufacturing Chemists' Association; Maj. James W. Bagley, Corps of Engineers, United States Army; Maj. William Blair, Signal Corps, United States Army; Maj. Roy C. Heflebower, Medical Corps, United States Army; Capt. David E. Theleen, United States Navy; representatives of the American Electrochemical Society and of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Executive committee of the American Geophysical Union: Chairman, H. S. Washington, petrologist, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C.; vice chairman, G. W. Littlehales; secretary, John A. Fleming; L. H. Adams, J. S. Ames, J. P. Ault, Louis A. Bauer, William Bowie, L. J. Cole, William J. Hale, D. L. Hazard, N. H. Heck, W. J. Humphreys, T. A. Jaggar, jr., H. H. Kimball, C. F. Marvin, R. A. Millikan, Harry Fielding Reid, T. Wayland Vaughan, David White.

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COUNCIL ON

Editorial Board of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: J. S. Ames, L. J. Cole, Gano Dunn, William J. Hale, Ludvig Hektoen, Frank B. Jewett, Vernon Kellogg, A. V. Kidder, David White. Member of the editorial executive committee: Vernon Kellogg.

Board of Trustees of Science Service: C. G. Abbot, Vernon Kellogg, Victor C. Vaughan.

Joint Commission of the Swiss Natural Science Association and the National Research Council for the management of the Concilium Bibliographicum: Vernon Kellogg.

National Board on Occupational Terminology: L. L. Thurstone, associate professor of psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

Advisory committee on oceanography of the Navy Department: William Bowie, chief, division of Geodesy, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D. C.

Crop Production Institute: Paul Moore, scientific associate, Research Information Service, National Research Council, Washington, D. C.

RESEARCH INFORMATION SERVICE

COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH INFORMATION SERVICE

Chairman, Vernon Kellogg; Frank B. Jewett, R. A. Millikan.
Director, Clarence J. West.

Assistant to the director, Callie Hull.

Scientific associate, Paul Moore.

DIVISIONS OF THE COUNCIL
DIVISIONS OF GENERAL RELATIONS
I. DIVISION OF FEDERAL RELATIONS

Chairman, Charles D. Walcott.1

Vice chairman, George Otis Smith.

Secretary, Paul Brockett.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Chairman, Charles D. Walcott; vice chairman, George Otis Smith; George K. Burgess, Brig. Gen. A. A. Fries, J. R. Mohler.

1 Deceased.

MEMBERS OF THE DIVISION

The President of the United States, on the nomination of the National Academy of Sciences, has designated the following representatives of the various departments to act as members of this division:

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Wilbur J. Carr, Assistant Secretary of State.

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

A. M. Stimson, Assistant Surgeon General, Public Health Service.

DEPARTMENT OF WAR

General Staff, United States Army.

Lieut. Col. Walter O. Boswell, General Staff, Military Intelligence Division, United States Army.

Maj. Clifford Jones, Coast Artillery Corps, United States Army.

Col. Joseph F. Siler, Medical Corps, United States Army.

Maj. Richard Park, Engineer Corps, United States Army.

Col. Colden L'H. Ruggles, Ordnance Department, United States Army. Maj. Gen. Charles McK. Saltzman, Chief Signal Officer, United States Army.

Capt. Walter F. Kraus, Air Corps, United States Army.

Brig. Gen. A. A. Fries, chief Chemical Warfare Service, United States Army.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Bertice M. Parmenter, Assistant Attorney General.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT

Joseph Stewart, Special Assistant to the Attorney General.

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

The Director, Intelligence Division, Office of Naval Operations, United States Navy.

The Superintendent of the Naval Observatory, Bureau of Navigation, United States Navy.

The Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, United States Navy.

The Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, United States Navy.

The Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, United States Navy.

The Chief of the Bureau of Engineering, United States Navy.

Rear Admiral Edward R. Stitt, Surgeon General, and Chief Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, United States Navy.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

William A. Kinnan, first assistant commissioner, Patent Office.

Arthur J. Klein, chief, Division of Higher Education, United States Bureau of Education.

George Otis Smith, director, Geological Survey.

Elwood Mead, commissioner, Reclamation Service.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

C. F. Marvin, chief, Weather Bureau.

J. R. Mohler, chief, Bureau of Animal Industry.

Karl F. Kellerman, physiologist and associate chief, Bureau of Plant Industry. E. H. Clapp, assistant forester, Forest Service.

Frederick B. Power,1 pharmaceutical research chemist, Bureau of Chemistry. Milton Whitney, chief, Bureau of Soils.

L. O. Howard, entomologist and chief, Bureau of Entomology.

E. W. Nelson, biologist and chief, Bureau of Biological Survey.
Thomas H. MacDonald, chief, Bureau of Public Roads.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Joseph A. Hill, assistant to the director, Bureau of the Census.

George K. Burgess, director, Bureau of Standards.

Henry B. O'Malley, commissioner, Bureau of Fisheries.

George R. Putnam, commissioner, Bureau of Lighthouses.

William Bowie, chief, Division of Geodesy, Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Scott Turner, director, Bureau of Mines.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Ethelbert Stewart, commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Charles D. Walcott,' secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

Paul Brockett, secretary of the division; assistant secretary and custodian of buildings and grounds, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C.

II. DIVISION OF FOREIGN RELATIONS

Chairman, ex officio, R. A. Millikan.

Vice chairman, Wilbur J. Carr.
Vice chairman, Vernon Kellogg.
Secretary, Albert L. Barrows.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Chairman, R. A. Millikan; vice chairmen, Wilbur J. Carr and Vernon Kellogg; Albert L. Barrows, William Bowie, George E. Hale, John C. Merriam.

MEMBERS OF THE DIVISION

EX OFFICIO

President of the National Academy of Sciences: T. H. Morgan, professor of experimental zoology, Columbia University New York City.

Foreign secretary of the National Academy of Sciences: R. A. Millikan, chairman of the division; director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, and chairman of the executive council, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

Chairman of the National Research Council, chairmen of all divisions of the council, and the director of the Research Information Service.

1 Deceased.

Representatives of

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

Burton E. Livingston, professor of plant physiology, and director, laboratory of plant physiology, Johns Hopkins University; permanent secretary, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D. C.

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

W. M. Wheeler, dean of the faculty, and professor of economic entomology, Bussey Institution, Forest Hills, Boston, Mass.

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Robert W. Wood, professor of experimental physics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Wilbur J. Carr, Assistant Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

Capt. W. W. Galbraith, director, Intelligence Division, Office of Naval Operations, Washington, D. C.

DEPARTMENT OF WAR

Lieut. Col. Walter O. Boswell, General Staff, Military Intelligence Division, Washington, D. C.

INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION

George C. Comstock, ex officio, chairman, American section, International Astronomical Union; professor emeritus of astronomy, University of Wisconsin; 635 College Avenue, Beloit, Wis.

INTERNATIONAL GEODETIC AND GEOPHYSICAL UNION

William Bowie, president, section on geodesy, International Geodetic and Geophysical Union; chief, Division of Geodesy, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D. C.

Harry Fielding Reid, vice president, section on seismology, International Geodetic and Geophysical Union; professor of dynamic geology and geography, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

C. F. Marvin, vice president, section on meteorology, International Geodetic and Geophysical Union; chief, United States Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C.

Louis A. Bauer, secretary, section on terrestrial magnetism and electricity, International Geodetic and Geophysical Union; director, department of terrestrial magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C.

G. W. Littlehales, vice chairman, American Geophysical Union; vice president, section on oceanography, International Geodetic and Geophysical Union; hydrographic engineer, United States Hydrographic Office, Washington, D. C.

H. S. Washington, chairman, American Geophysical Union; vice president, section on volcanology, International Geodetic and Geophysical Union; petrologist, geophysical laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C.

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