ters 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.

Section 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.

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

National Research Fellowships in Physics and Chemistry Supported by the Rockefeller Foundation

General Statement. -The National Research Council has been entrusted by the Rockefeller Foundation with the expenditure of an appropriation of $500,000, within a period of five years for promoting fundamental research in physics and chemistry primarily in educational institutions of the United States.

The primary feature of the plan is the initiation and maintenance of a system of National Research Fellowships, which are to be awarded by the National Research Council to 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 effective prosecution of research in physics or chemistry. The plan will include such supplementary features as may promote its broad purpose and increase its efficiency.

Purposes in View. Among the important results which are expected to follow from the execution of the plan may be mentioned:

(1) Opening of a scientific career to a larger number of able investigators and their more thorough training in research, thus meeting an urgent need of our universities and industries.

(2) Increase of knowledge relating to the fundamental principles of physics and chemistry, upon which the progress of all the sciences and the development of industry depend.

(3) Creation of more favorable conditions for research in the educational institutions of this country.

Administration.

- The plan will be administered by the Research Fellowship Board of the National Research Council. This Board con

sists of six members appointed for terms of five years, and of the chairmen ex-officiis of the Division of Physical Science and the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the National Research Council. The members of the Board are:

Henry A. Bumstead, Professor of Physics, Yale University.

Simon Flexner, Director of Laboratories, Rockefeller Institution for Medical Research.

George E. Hale, Director of Mount Wilson Observatory.

Elmer P. Kohler, Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University.

Robert A. Millikan, Professor of Physics, University of Chicago.

Arthur A. Noyes, Director of the Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wilder D. Bancroft, Professor of Physical Chemistry, Cornell University.

Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology.

Chairman of the Division of Physical Science. Coöperations of Educational Institutions. National Research Fellows will be permitted to conduct their investigations at institutions that will coöperate in meeting their needs. These needs differ widely from those of students seeking only instruction. Able investi

gators, actively engaged in productive research, are needed to inspire and guide the work of the Fellows. Research laboratories, adequately manned with assistants and mechanicians, and amply supplied with instruments, machine tools, and other facilities, are indispensable; and funds to provide supplies and to satisfy the constantly recurrent demands of research must be available. Above all, there must exist the stimulating atmosphere found only in institutions that have brought together a group of men devoted to the advancement of science through pursuit of research.

The Research Fellowship Board expects to make arrangements by which educational institutions will associate the Research Fellows with their graduate departments and offer the most favorable conditions for the prosecution of their researches.

The applicant will indicate one or more institutions at which, in his opinion, his research work can be conducted to the best advantage.

Fellowship Appointments. Appointments. The appointments of National Research Fellows will be made only after careful consideration of the scientific attainments of all candidates, not only of those who apply on their own initiative, but also of those who are brought to the attention of the Fellowship Board by professors in educational institutions and by other investigators

throughout the country. In making the appointments much weight will also be given to the judgment shown by the applicant in selecting and planning his proposed research.

The Research Fellowships will for the most part be awarded to American citizens who have had training equivalent to that represented by the Doctor's degree. The salary will ordinarily be $1500 for the first year. The Research Fellowship Board will not, however, be bound by rigid rules of procedure. Thus it may offer larger salaries to those of exceptional attainment or wider experience, and may give appointment to competent investigators who have had training other than that represented by the Doctor's degree. The Research Fellows will be appointed for one year; but they will be eligible for successive reappointments, ordinarily with increase of salary.

Fellowship Regulations. - Research Fellows are expected to devote their entire time to research, except that during the college year they may at their option give not more than one-fifth of their time (outside preparation included) to teaching of educational value to themselves, or to attendance on advanced courses of study. They may associate graduate students with their researches. They shall not engage in work for remuneration during the term of their appointment. Fellows who have