APPENDIX

1. EXECUTIVE ORDER ISSUED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MAY 11, 1918

The National Research Council was organized in 1916 at the request of the President by the National Academy of Sciences, under its congressional charter, as a measure of national preparedness. The work accomplished by the council in organizing research and in securing cooperation of military and civilian agencies in the solution of military problems demonstrates its capacity for larger service. The National Academy of Sciences is therefore requested to perpetuate the National Research Council, the duties of which shall be as follows:

1. In general, to stimulate 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.

2. To survey the larger possibilities of science, to formulate comprehensive projects of research, and to develop effective means of utilizing the scientific and technical resources of the country for dealing with these projects.

3. To promote cooperation in research, at home and abroad, in order to secure concentration of effort, minimize duplication, and stimulate progress; but in all cooperative undertakings to give encouragement to individual initiative, as fundamentally important to the advancement of science.

4. To serve as a means of bringing American and foreign investigators into active cooperation with the scientific and technical services of the War and Navy Departments and with those of the civil branches of the Government. 5. To direct the attention of scientific and technical investigators to the present importance of military and industrial problems in connection with the war, and to aid in the solution of these problems by organizing specific researches.

6. To gather and collate scientific and technical information at home and abroad, in cooperation with governmental and other agencies and to render such information available to duly accredited persons.

Effective prosecution of the council's work requires the cordial collaboration of the scientific and technical branches of the Government, both military and civil. To this end, representatives of the Government, upon the nomination of the National Academy of Sciences, will be designated by the President as members of the council, as heretofore, and the heads of the departments immediately concerned will continue to cooperate in every way that may be required. WOODROW WILSON.

THE WHITE HOUSE, May 11, 1918.

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2. ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION, NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

PREAMBLE

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

1. Representatives of national scientific and technical societies;

2. Representatives of the Government, as provided in the Executive order;

3. Representatives of other research organizations and other persons whose aid may advance the object of the council.

SEC. 3. Membership in the council shall be limited to citizens of the United States. This, however, shall not be construed as applying to membership in committees, appointed by or acting under the council, whose members are not necessarily members of the council, provided that members not citizens of the United States shall in no case form a majority of any such committees.

ARTICLE III.-DIVISIONS

SECTION 1. The council shall be organized in divisions of two classes:

A. Divisions dealing with the more general relations and activities of the council.

B. Divisions dealing with special branches of science and technology.
SEC. 2. The divisions of the council shall be as follows:

A. Divisions of general relations:

I. Division of Federal relations,

II. Division of foreign relations.
III. Division of States relations.
IV. Division of educational relations.

B. Divisions of science and technology:

V. Division of physical sciences.

VI. Division of engineering and industrial research. VII. Division of chemistry and chemical technology. VIII. Division of geology and geography.

IX. Division of medical sciences.

X. Division of biology and agriculture.

XI. 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 the divisions of science and technology shall consist of representatives of scientific and technical societies, who shall be chosen as provided for in Article V, section 2.

SEC. 6. The divisions of the council, with the approval of the executive board, may establish sections and committees, any of which may include members chosen outside the membership of the council.

ARTICLE IV.-ADMINISTRATION

SECTION 1. The affairs of each division shall be administered by a chairman, one or more vice chairmen, and an executive committee, of which the chairman and vice chairman shall be ex officio members. The officers and the executive committee of each of the divisions of general relations shall be appointed by the executive board for such periods as may be determined by the board, except that the foreign secretary of the National Academy of Sciences shall be ex officio chairman of the division of foreign relations. The officers and executive committee of each of the divisions of science and technology shall be elected by the division at its annual meeting, and confirmed by the executive board.

SEC. 2. The affairs of the National Research Council shall be administered by an executive board, of which the officers of the National Research Council, the president and home secretary of the National Academy of Sciences, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or if he be ineligible, another representative duly appointed by the association, the chairman of the Engineering Foundation, the chairmen and vice chairmen of the divisions of science and technology, and the chairmen of the divisions of general relations shall be members. In the absence of the chairman of a division the vice chairman or other executive officer shall represent him. The council of the National Academy of Sciences and the executive board of the National Research Council, acting jointly, may nominate additional members, not to exceed 12 in number, who, if not already members of the National Research Council, shall be appointed thereto by the president of the National Academy of Sciences for terms of three years. Upon their retirement, chairmen of the National Research Council and chairmen of the executive board

shall continue as members of the executive board for two years beyond the period of their appointment. Subject to the approval of the executive board, the business of the council may be transacted by an interim committee constituted as defined in the by-laws.

SEC. 3. The officers of the National Research Council shall consist of a chairman, a chairman of the executive board, one or more vice chairmen, a permanent secretary, and a treasurer, who shall also serve as members and officers of the executive board of the council.

SEC. 4. The officers of the National Research Council, excepting the permanent secretary and the treasurer, shall be elected annually by the executive board. The permanent secretary of the council shall be elected by the execu tive board for a period of one year or more. The treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences shall be ex officio treasurer of the National Research Council.

SEC. 5. The duties of the officers of the council and of the divisions shall be fixed by the executive board.

ARTICLE V.-NOMINATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS

SECTION 1. The Government bureaus, civil and military, to be represented in the division of Federal relations and the scientific and technical societies to be represented in the divisions of science and technology of the National Research Council shall be determined by joint action of the council of the National Academy of Sciences and the executive board of the National Research Council.

SEC. 2. Representatives of scientific and technical societies shall be nominated by the societies, at the request of the executive board, and appointed by the president of the National Academy of Sciences to membership in the council and assigned to one of its divisions.

SEC. 3. The representatives of the Government shall be nominated by the president of the National Academy of Sciences after conference with the secretaries of the departments concerned, and the names of those nominated shall be presented to the President of the United States for designation by him for service with the National Research Council.

SEC. 4. Other members of the council shall be nominated by the executive committees of the divisions, approved by the executive board, and appointed by the president of the National Academy of Sciences to membership and assigned to one of the divisions.

SEC. 5. Members of the council shall be appointed for terms of three years, except when appointed to fill unexpired terms.

SEC. 6. The Government representatives shall serve for periods of three years, unless they previously retire from the Government office which they represent, in which case their successors shall be appointed for the unexpired term.

ARTICLE VI.-MEETINGS

SECTION 1. Meetings of the council may be held on call of the executive board.

SEC. 2. The executive board and the divisions shall hold annual meetings, at which, in the case of the divisions of science and technology, officers shall be

elected; such other meetings may be called as may be required for the transaction of business. The annual meeting of the executive board shall be held in April, in the city of Washington, on a date to be determined as the board may direct.

SEC. 3. Joint meetings of the executive board of the National Research Council and the council of the National Academy of Sciences shall be held from time to time to consider any matters which, in the judgment of the president of the National Academy, require the attention of both bodies.

ARTICLE VII.—PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS

SECTION 1. An annual report on the work of the National Research Council shall be presented by the chairman to the National Academy of Sciences, for submission to Congress, in connection with the annual report of the president of the Academy.

SEC. 2. Other publications of the National Research Council may include papers, bulletins, reports, and memoirs, which may appear in the Proceedings or memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, in the publications of other societies, in scientific and technical journals, or in a separate series of the Research Council.

ARTICLE VIII.-AMENDMENTS

SECTION 1. Power of amendment of these articles of organization shall reside in the council of the National Academy of Sciences.

3. OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE BOARD

OFFICERS

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

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

First vice chairman, A. A. Michelson, president, National Academy of Sciences; professor of physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

Second vice chairman, Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.

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

Fourth vice chairman, John C. Merriam, president, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C.

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

Treasurer, George K. Burgess, treasurer, National Academy of Sciences; director, United States Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C.

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

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

Bursar, J. H. J. Yule, National Research Council, Washington, D. C. Chief clerk, C. L. Wade, National Research Council, Washington, D. C.