neering Foundation has cooperated with the division in other projects also and from time to time seeks advice from the division's consulting committees on projects of its own. The secretary of the foundation is chairman of the division of engineering.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT.

The major support for the general maintenance expenses of the National Research Council during the past year has come from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Corporation in March, 1919, expressed its readiness to appropriate $5,000,000 for the erection of a building for the joint use of the council and the National Academy of Sciences, and for an endowment for the council, provided a suitable site in Washington should be obtained from other sources and a satisfactory plan for the building should be presented.

A suitable site was obtained and the building is now in process of construction (see later paragraph on "New building"). In the meantime the corporation appropriated $185,000 for current expenses for the year July 1, 1921, to June 30, 1922.

The Rockefeller Foundation has during the year pledged itself to make two new considerable appropriations to the council for special purposes. One is the sum of $250,000, payable in amounts not to exceed $50,000 a year for five years, for the maintenance of advanced fellowships in medicine. A similar sum under similar conditions has been pledged by the General Education Board. This sum of $500,000, added to the $500,000 previously appropriated by the foundation for the maintenance through a five-year period of research fellowships in physics and chemistry, makes a total of $1,000,000 available to the council for fellowships. The other is the sum of $85,000 for the cleaning up of certain outstanding obligations of the Concilium Bibliographicum, an international institution for scientific bibliography, and for assisting in the maintenance of this institution for five years. The following amounts on these accounts and certain others have actually been received from the foundation by the council during the year: For research fellowships in physics and chemistry, $75,208.32; for fellowships in medicine, $231.85; for Concilium Bibliographicum, $30,000; for the division of physical sciences, $6,679.17.

From the General Education Board (already mentioned as having pledged $250,000 at the rate of $50,000 a year for five years for fellowships in medicine) have been received: For the division of educational relations, $2,500; for fellowships in medicine, $231.84.

From the Chemical Foundation: For special work on chemistry by the research information service, $7,500; for work on the standardization of biological stains, $500.

From various organizations, chiefly railroads, for the investigation of injuries to marine piling, $15,797.

From various organizations for the advisory board on highway research, $14,000.

From various organizations for the trustees for the publication of physical and chemical constants, $13,736.73.

Other contributions include: The sum of $2,000 from Julius Rosenwald toward the support of a fellowship in biology; from the Corning Glass Works toward the support of a fellowship in ceramics, $1,000; from the Southern Pine Association, for the use of the committee on forestry, $3,000; from various organizations, for the use of the food and nutrition committee, $1,350; from Glass Container Association of America, for an investigation of food products, $568.28; from various individuals, for international language, $950; from Theodore Lyman, special contribution toward the publication of Kayser's handbook on spectroscopy, $500; from various sources, for the committee on substitute deoxidizers, $400; for the use of the committee on atmosphere and man, $1,000; for expenses of chemical exhibits, $8,317.40; for motion-picture films, chemical exhibits, $1,500; for conference on sex research, $1,000; for national intelligence tests, $1,602.07.

NEW BUILDING.

In conformity with the provision made in connection with the appropriation by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, for the erection of a building for the joint use of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, a desirable site in Washington was obtained for approximately $185,000 by the generous gifts of the following donors: Thomas D. Jones, Harold F. McCormick, Julius Rosenwald, and Charles H. Swift, Chicago; Charles F. Brush, George W. Crile, John L. Severance, and Ambrose Swasey, Cleveland; Edward Dean Adams, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, and the Commonwealth Fund, New York City; George Eastman and Adolph Lomb, Rochester; E. A. Deeds and Charles F. Kettering, Dayton; Henry Ford, Detroit; Arthur H. Fleming, Pasadena; A. W. Mellon, Pittsburgh; Pierre S. du Pont, Wilmington; Raphael Pumpelly, Newport; Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Huntington, Los Angeles; Corning Glass Works, Corning, N. Y.

This site is the entire block between Twenty-first and Twentysecond and B and C Streets, almost directly opposite the Lincoln Memorial.

The building is now under construction and should be ready for occupancy in October, 1923. The architect is Mr. Bertram G. Goodhue, of New York City, and the general contractors are the C. T. Wills Co. (Inc.), of New York City. The Academy and Council

are confident that the new building will be of great architectural interest and beauty and admirably fitted for practical use.

OFFICERS FOR 1922-23.

At the meeting of the executive board on April 23, 1922, the following officers were elected for the year July 1, 1922, to June 30, 1923: Chairman of the executive board, John C. Merriam, president, Carnegie Institution of Washington; first vice chairman, Charles D. Walcott, secretary, Smithsonian Institution and president, National Academy of Sciences; second vice chairman, Gano Dunn, president of J. G. White Engineering Corporation, New York City; third vice chairman, R. A. Millikan, director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. The honorary chairman, George E. Hale, director, Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, Calif., and the permanent secretary, Vernon Kellogg, National Research Council; the treasurer, F. L. Ransome, of the United States Geological Survey and treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences, together with assistant secretaries Albert L. Barrows, National Research Council; Paul Brockett, assistant secretary, National Academy of Sciences, and Alfred D. Flinn, secretary, Engineering Foundation and chairman, division of engineering, National Research Council, continue in office without annual reelection.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

The council continues to maintain close relations with scientific interests and activities in other countries through its membership in the International Research Council and its representation in the various international unions affiliated with the International Research Council. It has been successful in arranging that the American dues to the International Research Council and affiliated unions should continue to be paid by the Government through the State Depart

ment.

Delegates accredited by the council attended the meetings in Rome in May, 1922, of the International Astronomical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, and in Lyons in June, 1922, of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The council has also accredited delegates to the meeting of the International Research Council and the International Union of Scientific Radio-Telegraphy, both to be held at Brussels in July, and to the International Geological Congress to be held at Brussels in August.

By Article XXIV of the League of Nations there is authorized the establishment of a committee of 12 members to propose a plan for international cooperation in intellectual labor. The League has

established such a committee, and Dr. George E. Hale, honorary chairman of the council, was appointed member for America. The committee will hold its first meeting at Geneva in August, 1922.

During the past year and a half the council's committee on Pacific investigations has corresponded with countries and colonies within and bordering upon the Pacific Ocean with a view to the holding of a second pan-Pacific conference similar to that held in Honolulu in August, 1920. Recently the Commonwealth Government of Australia has made an appropriation to the Australian National Research Council, which will make it possible to hold this conference in Australia in the fall of 1923 under the immediate auspices of the Australian National Research Council.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

The council has continued to share in the editorial and financial responsibility of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It has contributed during the year $2,500 to assist in meeting the expenses of the Proceedings, and has been represented on the managing and editorial boards by the following members of the council: Member of the executive committee, Vernon Kellogg; members of the editorial board, the chairman of the executive board and the permanent secretary and Messrs. Cottrell, Flinn, Gale, Jones, Mathews, Millikan, Ransome, Seashore, Vaughan, and Yerkes.

PUBLICATIONS.

From June 30, 1921 to July 1, 1922, 6,967 copies of the various issues in the bulletin series of the council and 10,376 copies of issues of the reprint and circular series were distributed. From the beginning to the present the total number of copies of bulletins distributed is 27,200 and of the reprints and circulars 30,842. The receipts for subscriptions to the bulletin and separate sales of bulletin and numbers in the reprint and circular series for the year totaled $1,751.68.

The following in each series have been issued or have gone to press since June 30, 1921:

BULLETIN OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL.

VOLUME 2.

No. 13. The research activities of departments of the State government of California in relation to the movement for reorganization. By James R. Douglas. June, 1921. Pages, 46. Price, 60 cents.

No. 14. A general survey of the present status of the atomic structure problem. Report of the committee on atomic structure of the National Research Council. By David L. Webster and Leigh Page. July, 1921. Pages, 61. Price, 75 cents.

No. 15. A list of seismologic stations of the world. Compiled by Harry O. Wood. July, 1921. Pages, 142. Price, $2.

VOLUME 3.

No. 16. Research laboratories in industrial establishments of the United States, including consulting research laboratories. Originally compiled by Alfred D. Flinn; revised and enlarged by Ruth Cobb. December, 1921. Pages, 135. Price, $2.

No. 17. Scientific papers presented before the American Geophysical Union at its second annual meeting. February, 1922. Pages, 108. Price, $1.50.

No. 18. Theories of magnetism. By members of the committee on theories of magnetism. August, 1922. Pages, 261. Price, $3.

No. 19. Celestial mechanics.

VOLUME 4.

Report of the committee on celestial mechanics of the National Research Council. (In press.)

No. 20. Secondary radiations produced by X-rays and some of their applications to physical problems. By Arthur H. Compton. (In press.)

No. 21. Electrodynamics of moving media. Report of the committee on electrodynamics of moving media. (In press.)

No. 22. The present status of visual science. By Leonard Thompson Troland. (In press.)

No. 23. Certain problems in acoustics. By members of the committee on acoustics of the National Research Council. (In press.)

No. 24. Algebraic numbers. the National Research Council. No. 25. Celestial mechanics.

tial mechanics. (In press.)

Report of the committee on algebraic numbers of (In press.)

Appendix to the report of the committee on celes

No. 26. Report of the committee on luminescence. By members of the committee on luminescence. (In press.)

REPRINT AND CIRCULAR SERIES OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL.

No. 13. Research problems in colloid chemistry. By Wilder D. Bancroft. June, 1921. Pages, 54. Price, 50 cents.

No. 15. Researches on modern brisant nitro explosives. By C. F. van Duin and B. C. Roeters van Lennep. Translated by Charles E. Munroe. October, 1921. Pages, 35. Price, 50 cents.

No. 18. Industrial benefits of research. By Charles L. Reese and A. J. Wadhams. August, 1921. Pages, 14. Price, 25 cents.

No. 19. The university and research. By Vernon Kellogg. August, 1921. Pages, 10. Price, 15 cents.

No. 20. Libraries in the District of Columbia. By W. I. Swanton. September 1921. Pages, 19. Price, 25 cents.

No. 21. Scientific abstracting. By Gordon S. Fulcher. December, 1921. Pages, 15. Price, 20 cents.

No. 22. The National Research Council. Its services for mining and metallurgy. By Alfred D. Flinn. November, 1921. Pages, 7. Price, 20 cents.

No. 23. American research chemicals. By Clarence J. West. September, 1921. Pages, 28. Price, 50 cents.

No. 24. Organomagnesium compounds in synthetic chemistry. A bibliography of the Grignard reaction, 1900-1921. By Clarence J. West and Henry Gilman. (In press.)

No. 25. A partial list of the publications of the National Research Council to January 1, 1922. February, 1922. Pages, 15. Price, 25 cents.

No. 26. Doctorates conferred in the sciences by American universities in 1921. Compiled by Callie Hull and Clarence J. West. March, 1922. Pages, 20. Price, 20 cents.