Report of National Research Council

In the report of the chairman of the council to the executive board of the National Research Council concerning activities during May and June 1933, a number of items of considerable interest are noted. In the division of engineering and industrial research, the first of a series of regional conferences planned for the discussion of relationships between industry and the universities in matters of research was held in Chicago. Ill. The purpose of these conferences is to bring out information concerning the nature of the research in progress at these institutions which would be of interest to various industries, and the facilities of these institutions which would put them in position for undertaking certain types of industrial research, and also to consider the ways in which industry can avail itself of these research resources and the conditions under which investigations upon industrial problems might be of advantage to these institutions.