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THE December, 1916, issue of the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences contains reports of meetings of the council on November 13 and 14 last, and of trie meetings of the Executive Committee of the council held during October and November, At these meetings several committees were appointed to deal with specific questions. Among these may be mentioned that to confer with representatives of the National Canners' Association in the conduct of investigations on toxic elements in canned foods; that to co-operate with the Government Committee, on Ocean Surveys and Ice Patrol; that on the,utilisation1 of industrial research facilities for the national de^ fence; that to consider the organisation of research, in anthropological and sociological, sciences; and general committees (in addition to that on chemistry previously established) on mathematics, astronomy, physics, geology and paleontology, geography, botany, zoology and animal morphology, physiology, medicine, hygiene, agriculture, psychology, and anthropology.
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The U.S. National Research Council . Nature 98, 440–441 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/098440a0
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