REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE.

WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31, 1922. We have employed the Capital Audit Co. to scrutinize and report on the treasurer's books. We accepted the certificate, dated July 1, 1922, of the American Security & Trust Co. regarding notes owned by the academy and deposited for collection; we have examined the securities owned by the academy and papers contained in the box of the National Academy of Sciences at the vault of the American Security & Trust Co. We find them to correspond to the list checked by the auditing committee on July 17, 1922, except as modified by transactions since July 1, 1922, reported by the Capital Audit Co. We find that the coupons falling due during this period have been cut and accounted for, and those due July 1, 1922, have been deposited and are accounted for by appropriate entries in the pass book. We find that interest on loans has been accounted for. Correspondence between vouchers, pass books, and accounts of the treasurer is certified by the Capital Audit Co. We find the net balance reported by the treasurer as of June 30, 1922, to accord with the statement of the American Security & Trust Co. and with the check book. The above paragraph relates to the accounts of the National Academy of Sciences proper.

The Capital Audit Co. has made a special report on the accounts of the National Research Council, whose funds are deposited in two separate accounts to the credit of the academy. We have examined the long-term securities of the National Research Council deposited in the box at the American Security & Trust Co. and find them correct. We accepted the certificate, dated June 30, 1922, of the Riggs National Bank as to United States Treasury certificates of indebtedness owned by the National Research Council and held by the bank for collection. We find that the net balance reported by the treasurer as of June 30, 1922, agrees with the statements of the American Security & Trust Co. and the Riggs National Bank for these accounts. Correspondence between vouchers, pass books, and accounts of the treasurer for the National Reserach Council is certified by the Capital Audit

Co.

WHITMAN CROSS,
DAVID WHITE,
L. O. HOWARD,

Auditing Committee

APPENDIX A.

OFFICERS, MEMBERS, AND COMMITTEES.

OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE Board.

OFFICERS.

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

Chairman of the executive board, John C. Merriam, president, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C.

First vice chairman, Charles D. Walcott, secretary, Smithsonian Institution; president National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C.

Second vice chairman, Gano Dunn, president, J. G. White Engineering Corporation, 43 Exchange Place, New York City.

Third vice chairman, R. A. Millikan, director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

Permanent secretary, Vernon Kellogg, National Research Council, Washington, D. C.

Assistant secretary, Albert L. Barrows, National Research Council, Washington, D. C.

Assistant secretary, Paul Brockett, assistant secretary, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C.

Treasurer, F. L. Ransome, geologist in charge, section of metalliferous deposits, United States Geological Survey; treasurer, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C.

By reciprocal arrangement with the Engineering Foundation—

Assistant secretary, Alfred D. Flinn, secretary, Engineering Foundation; chairman, division of engineering, National Research Council, 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York City.

Chairman, John C. Merriam.

EXECUTIVE BOARD.

MEMBERS EX OFFICIO.

Officers of the council (except assistant secretaries).

President of the National Academy of Sciences, Charles D. Walcott, secretary, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.

Home Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences, C. G. Abbot, director, Astrophysical Observatory, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.

President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, J. Playfair McMurrich, professor of anatomy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Past chairman of the National Research Council, James R. Angell, president, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Chairmen of the divisions of general relations.

Chairmen and vice chairmen of the divisions of science and technology.

MEMBERS AT LARGE.

Edward Dean Adams, engineer, 71 Broadway, New York City.

John J. Carty, vice president, American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 195 Broadway, New York City.

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Gano Dunn, president, J. G. White Engineering Corporation, 43 Exchange Place, New York City.

William M. Jardine, president, Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kans. R. A. Millikan, director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

A. A. Noyes, director of chemical research, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

Raymond Pearl, professor of biometry and vital statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

M. I. Pupin, professor of electromechanics, Columbia University, New York City. S. W. Stratton, director, United States Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C. Ambrose Swasey, president, Warner & Swasey Co., Cleveland, Ohio.

William H. Welch, director, school of hygiene and public health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

President, Sigma Xi Society, ex officio, Henry B. Ward, professor of zoology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES OF THE COUNCIL.

Committee on budget (joint committee with National Academy of Sciences): Chairman, Charles D. Walcott; John C. Merriam, F. L. Ransome.

Committee on building plans: Chairman, George E. Hale; Gano Dunn, H. E. Howe, Vernon Kellogg, John C. Merriam, R. A. Millikan, A. A. Noyes, Augustus Trowbridge, Charles D. Walcott, with H. S. Pritchett in an advisory capacity, representing the Carnegie Corporation.

Committee on building stone (with reference to new building): Chairman, Charles D. Walcott; Vernon Kellogg, John C. Merriam.

Committee on finance: Chairman, John C. Merriam; John J. Carty, Gano Dunn, H. G. Gale, George E. Hale, H. E. Howe, Vernon Kellogg.

Committee on organization and budget: Chairman, H. E. Howe; Vernon Kellogg, F. L. Ransome.

Promotion committee: Chairman, H. E. Howe; Paul Moore.

Committee on publication and publicity: Chairman, Robert M. Yerkes; H .E. Howe, Vernon Kellogg, John C. Merriam.

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COUNCIL ON

Editorial board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: F. G. Cottrell, Alfred D. Flinn, H. G. Gale, L. R. Jones, Vernon Kellogg, E. B. Mathews, John C. Merriam, R. A. Millikan, F. L. Ransome, C. E. Seashore, V. C. Vaughan, Robert M. Yerkes; member of editorial executive committee, Vernon Kellogg. Board of trustees of science service: George E. Hale, Vernon Kellogg, Robert M. Yerkes.

Commission of Swiss Natural Science Association for the Management of the Concilium Bibliographicum: Vernon Kellogg.

TECHNICAL COMMITTEES OF THE COUNCIL.

Committee on Concilium Bibliographicum: Chairman, Vernon Kellogg; L. R. Jones, J. R. Schramm, Robert M. Yerkes.

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, John M. Clarke, Vernon Kellogg, C. E. McClung.

Committee to consider various phases of industrial research: Chairman, Gano Dunn; Comfort A. Adams, John J. Carty, George E. Hale, H. E. Howe.

Committee on cooperation with Research Corporation: Chairman, F. G. Cottrell; H. E. Howe, Augustus Trowbridge, Robert M. Yerkes.

Committee on Federal grants for research: Chairman, Vernon Kellogg; John J. Carty, Gano Dunn, S. W. Stratton, Charles D. Walcott, Robert M. Yerkes.

Committee on filing of sealed documents: Chairman, Paul Brockett; F. G. Cottrell, H. E. Howe.

Committee on Patent Office: Chairman, L. H. Baekeland, honorary professor of chemical engineering, Columbia University; residence, Yonkers, N. Y.; secretary, Edwin J. Prindle, 111 Broadway, New York City; W. F. Durand, Thomas Ewing, Frederick P. Fish, Reid Hunt, R. A. Millikan, M. I. Pupin, S. W. Stratton, C. P. Townsend.

Trustees for the publication of International Critical Tables: Chairman, George P. Adamson, president, General Chemical Co., 25 Broad Street, New York City; secretary, W. M. Corse; H. E. Howe, Edward P. Hyde, Hugh K. Moore, Charles L. Reese, Julius Stieglitz.

Editorial board for publication of International Critical Tables: George K. Burgess, Saul Dushman, John Johnston, C. E. K. Mees, C. E. Mendenhall, R. B. Moore.

Executive committee of the American Geophysical Union: Chairman, William Bowie, Chief, Division of Geodesy, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D. C.; vice chairman, Louis A. Bauer, director, department of terrestrial magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C.; secretary, W. J. Humphreys, professor of meteorological physics, United States Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C.; F. G. Cottrell, Arthur L. Day, H. G. Gale, L. R. Jones, G. W. Littlehales, C. F. Marvin, E. B. Mathews, R. A. Millikan, H. F. Reid, H. S. Washington.

DIVISIONS OF THE COUNCIL.

DIVISION OF FEDERAL RELATIONS.

Chairman, Charles D. Walcott.

Vice chairman, A. P. Davis.

Secretary, H. G. Gale.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Chairman, Charles D. Walcott; vice chairman, A. P. Davis; secretary, H. G. Gale; William Bowie, Brigadier General A. A. Fries, S. W. Stratton.

MEMBERS OF THE DIVISION.

H. G. Gale, professor of physics, University of Chicago; chairman, division of physical sciences, National Research Council, Washington, D. C.

EX OFFICIO.

Robert M. Yerkes, chairman, research information service, National Research Council, Washington, D. C.

The President of the United States, on the recommendation of the president of the National Academy of Sciences, acting as chairman of the division of Federal relations of the National Research Council, has designated the following representatives of the various departments to act as members of this division:

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

Wilbur J. Carr, Director, Consular Service.

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY.

J W. Schereschewsky, Assistant Surgeon General, Public Health Service.

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

Lieut. Col. Edward T. Donnelly, General Staff, United States Army.
Lieut. Col. W. B. Graham, Military Intelligence Division, United States Army.
Col. Clarence H. McNeil, Coast Artillery, United States Army.

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

Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, Engineer Corps, United States Army.

Col. Colden L'H. Ruggles, Ordnance Department, United States Army.

Maj. Gen. George O. Squier, Chief Signal Officer, United States Army.
Maj. Henry W. Harms, Air Service, United States Army.

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

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

William D. Riter, Assistant Attorney General.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

Joseph Stewart, special assistant to the Attorney General.

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY.

Director, Intelligence Division, Office of Naval Operations, United States Navy. Superintendent, Naval Observatory, Bureau of Navigation, United States Navy. Rear Admiral Luther E. Gregory, Chief, Bureau of Yards and Docks, United States Navy.

Bureau of Ordnance, United States Navy.

Rear Admiral D. W. Taylor, Chief Constructor of the Navy, and Chief, Bureau of Construction and Repair, United States Navy.

Rear Admiral R. S. Griffin, Chief, 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 of Patents, Patent Office.
George F. Zook, specialist in higher education, Bureau of Education.
George Otis Smith, Director, Geological Survey.

A. P. Davis, Director, Reclamation Service.
H. Foster Bain, Director, Bureau of Mines.

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, 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.
T. H. MacDonald, Chief, Bureau of Public Roads.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.

Joseph A. Hill, chief statistician, Bureau of the Census.

S. W. Stratton, Director, Bureau of Standards.

Hugh M. Smith, Commissioner, Bureau of Fisheries.

William Bowie, Chief, Division of Geodesy, Coast and Geodetic Survey.