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Committee on the atmosphere and man: Chairman, Ellsworth Huntington.

Subcommittee on experiments: Chairman, W. H. Howell, professor of physiology and assistant director, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

Subcommittee on industrial effects of the atmosphere: Chairman, Ellsworth Huntington.

Subcommittee on the atmosphere and mortality: Chairman, Ellsworth Huntington.

Committee on cooperation and coordination: Chairman, F. R. Lillie.

Committee on current problems: Chairman, G. N. Collins.

Committee on educational relations: Chairman, C. E. McClung.

Committee on the Farlow Index: George T. Moore, director, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo.

Committee on fellowships: Chairman, M. F. Guyer, professor of zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.

Committee on fertilizers: Chairman, J. G. Lipman, director, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, N. J.

Subcommittee on physiological salt requirements of cultivated plants: Chairman, A. G. McCall, professor of geology and soils, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.

Committee on food and nutrition: Chairman, J. R. Murlin

Subcommittee on human nutrition: Chairman, H. C. Sherman, professor of food chemistry, Columbia University, New York City.

Subcommittee on animal nutrition: Chairman, E. B. Forbes, chief, department of nutrition, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio.

Committee on forestry: Chairman, Raphael Zon, forest economist, United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C.

Subcommittee on forest products: Chairman, O. M. Butler, forester, American Forestry Association, Washington, D. C.

Subcommittee on forest management: Chairman, H. H. Chapman, Harriman professor of forest management, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Subcommittee on forestry economics: Chairman, S. T. Dana, forest commissioner, Augusta, Me.

Subcommittee on silviculture: Chairman, T. S. Woolsey, jr., secretary-treasurer Connecticut Forestry Association, 242 Prospect Street, New Haven, Conn. Committee on marine biological laboratory: Chairman, F. R. Lillie.

Committee on oceanography: Chairman, Henry F. Moore.

Committee on phytopathology (acting also as the committee of the American Phytopathological Society to cooperate with the division): Chairman, C. R. Orton, plant pathologist, agricultural experiment station, Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa.

Subcommittee on phytopathology in the tropics: Chairman, W. A. Orton, plant pathologist in charge of investigation of cotton, truck, and forage crop diseases, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Committee on biological relation of insects to flowers: Chairman, F. E. Lutz, curator of entomology, American Museum of Natural History, New York City. Committee on standardization of biological stains: Chairman, H. J. Conn, associate bacteriologist, New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y.

COMMITTEES OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES IN COOPERATION WITH THE DIVISION.

American Society of Agronomy: Chairman, Charles V. Piper.

Subcommittee on soils: Chairman, C. F. Marbut.

Subcommittee on fertilizers: Chairman, J. G. Lipman, director, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, N. J.

Subcommittee on crops: Chairman, Charles V. Piper.

Subcommittee on plant nutrition: Chairman, A. G. McCall, professor of geology and soils, University of Maryland; College Park, Md.

Society of American Bacteriologists: Chairman, Samuel C. Prescott.

Botanical Society of America: Chairman, Charles E. Allen, professor of botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.

Ecological Society of America: Chairman, Ellsworth Huntington.

American Association of Economic Entomologists:.Chairman, Wilmon Newell, plant commissioner, Florida State plant board; dean, College of Agriculture and director, Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. American Society for Horticultural Science: Chairman, U. P. Hedrick.

American Society of Naturalists: Chairman, Bradley M. Davis, professor of botany, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

American Society of Zoologists: Chairman, F. R. Lillie.

DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY.

Chairman, C. E. Seashore.

Vice chairman, A. L. Kroeber.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Chairman, C. E. Seashore; vice chairman, A. L. Kroeber; J. Walter Fewkes, W. B. Pillsbury, E. L. Thorndike, Clark Wissler.

MEMBERS OF THE DIVISION.

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.

R. B. Dixon, professor of anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. J. Walter Fewkes, chief, Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.

F. W. Hodge, Museum of the American Indian, Broadway at One hundred and fifty-fifth Street, New York City.

A. L. Kroeber, curator of anthropology, Museum of Anthropology; professor of anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.

Berthold Laufer, curator of anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago,

Ill.

Clark Wissler, curator of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York City.

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.

W. B. Pillsbury, professor of psychology and director, psychological laboratory, Univerity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

C. E. Seashore, dean of the Graduate College, professor of psychology, and head of the department of philosophy and psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. George M. Stratton, professor of psychology, University of California, Berkeley Calif.

H. C. Warren, Stuart professor of psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.

J. B. Watson, consulting psychologist, J. Walter Thompson Co., 244 Madison Avenue, New York City.

G. M. Whipple, professor of experimental education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

MEMBERS AT LARGE.

J. H. Breasted, professor of Egyptology and oriental history, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

George L. Meylan, professor of physical education and medical director of the gymnasium, Columbia University, New York City.

L. M. Terman, professor of education, Stanford University, Stanford University Calif.

E. L. Thorndike, professor of educational psychology, Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York City.

A. M. Tozzer, associate professor of anthropology and curator of Middle American archeology and ethnology, Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

C. S. Yoakum, associate professor of applied psychology and director, bureau of personnel research, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.

A representative from the division of Federal relations.

COMMITTEES.

Committee on State archeological survey: Chairman, Clark Wissler.

State subcommittee for Indiana: Chairman, Amos W. Butler, secretary, Indiana Board of Charities, Indianapolis, Ind.

State subcommittee for Illinois: Chairman, Berthold Laufer.

State subcommittee for Iowa: Chairman, B. F. Shambaugh, professor of political science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

Committee on child-welfare research: Chairman, Bird T. Baldwin, research professor of psychology and director of child-welfare research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

Committee on initiation of a journal of psychological abstracts (joint committee with the American Psychological Association): Chairman, C. E. Seashore. Committee on national intelligence tests: Chairman, G. M. Whipple.

Committee on personnel research in business and industry: Chairman, Beardsley Ruml, assistant to the president, Carnegie Corporation, 522 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

Committee on prediction of success of students entering higher institutions: Chairman, W. V. Bingham, professor of applied psychology, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Advisory committee on problems of military psychology: Chairman, Walter Dill Scott, president, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

Committee on race characters: Chairman, Clark Wissler.

Committee on specific projects outside of the United States: Chairman, J. Walter Fewkes.

Committee on superior attainment of college students: Chairman, C. E. Seashore. Committee on vestibular research: Chairman, C. E. Seashore.

Executive committee on vestibular research: Chairman, J. Gordon Wilson, professor of otology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.

Committee of the National Association of Directors of Educational Research to cooperate with the division: Chairman, M. E. Haggerty, professor of educational psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE DIVISION ON

Committee on Health Examinations of the American Physical Education Association.— E. A. Hooton, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

FELLOWSHIPS.

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP BOARD.

A sum, amounting to $500,000 for the period May 1, 1919, to June 30, 1925, has been pledged to be appropriated by the Rockefeller Foundation to the National Research Council for the maintenance of national research fellowships in physics and chemistry,

under the direction of a research fellowship board appointed by the council of the National Academy of Sciences and the executive board of the National Research Council acting jointly.

The members appointed on this board serve for a period of five years. With them the chairman of the divisions of physical sciences and of chemistry and chemical technology, appointed annually, serve in an ex officio capacity.

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

Simon Flexner, chairman, director of research laboratories, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Sixty-sixth Street and Avenue A, New York City.

George E. Hale, director Mount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, Calif.

John Johnston, Sterling professor of chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Elmer P. Kohler, professor of chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. R. A. Millikan, director, Norman Bridge laboratory of physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

Augustus Trowbridge, professor of physics, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.

EX OFFICIO.

F. G. Cottrell, chairman, division of chemistry and chemical technology, National Research Council, Washington, D. C.

H. G. Gale, chairman, division of physical sciences, National Research Council; professor of physics, University of Chicago; executive secretary, research fellowship board for 1921-22, Washington, D. C.

Fellowships for 1921-22 have been awarded to the following persons, who have demonstrated a high order of ability in research, for the purpose of enabling them to conduct investigations at educational institutions which make adequate provision for research in physics and chemistry.

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APPENDIX B.:

ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION AS AMENDED UP TO JUNE 30, 1922.

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The National Academy of Sciences, under the authority conferred upon it by its charter enacted by Congress, and approved by President Lincoln on March 3, 1863, and pursuant to the request expressed in an Executive order made by President Wilson on May 11, 1918, adopts the following articles of organization for the National Research Council, to replace the temporary organization under which it has operated heretofore:

ARTICLE I-PURPOSE.

It shall be the purpose of the National Research Council to promote research in the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences, and in the application of these sciences to engineering, agriculture, medicine, and other useful arts, with the object of increasing knowledge, of strengthening the national defense, and of contributing in other ways to the public welfare, as expressed in the Executive order of May 11, 1918.

ARTICLE II-MEMBERSHIP.

SECTION 1. The membership of the National Research Council shall be chosen with the view of rendering the council an effective federation of the principal research agencies in the United States concerned with the fields of science and technology named in Article I.

SEC. 2. The council shall consist of representatives of national scientific and technical societies; representatives of the Government, as provided in the Executive order; and representatives of other research organizations and other persons whose aid may advance the objects of the council.

ARTICLE III-DIVISIONS.

SECTION 1. The council shall be organized in divisions of two classes: Divisions dealing with the more general relations and activities of the council and divisions dealing with special branches of science and technology.

SEC. 2. The initial constitution of the divisions of the council shall be as follows: Divisions of general relations: Division of Federal relations, division of foreign relations, division of States relations, division of educational relations, division of research extension, and research information service.

Divisions of science and technology: Division of physical sciences, division of engineering, division of chemistry and chemical technology, division of geology and geography, division of medical sciences, division of biology and agriculture, and division of anthropology and psychology.

SEC. 3. The number of divisions and the grouping of subjects in Article III, section 2, may be modified by the executive board of the National Research Council. SEC. 4. The divisions of general relations shall be organized by the executive board of the National Research Council. (Art. IV, sec. 2.)

SEC. 5. To secure the effective federation of the principal research agencies in the United States, provided for in Article II, a majority of the members of each of

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