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HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



of the Harvard University Center for Population Studies. A man of 

 tremendous breadth, he could always be counted on to produce 

 stimulating new ideas, and his interests and activities were legion. 

 During the 1960's, he became concerned with and active in measures 

 to help match productivity, population, and human welfare on an 

 international scale through the International Biological Program. 

 It was quite natural that Roger Revelle should have been named 

 Chairman of the U.S. National Committee for the International 

 Biological Program, sponsored in the United States by the National 

 Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. 

 Through Dr. Revelle's influence, the Daddano subcommittee 

 became interested in the International Biological Program. Chairman 

 Miller of the full committee introduced House Concurrent Resolution 

 273 on March 9, 1967, which expressed the support of Congress for the 

 IBP to— 



provide a unique and effective means of meeting the urgent need for increased 

 study and research related to biological productivity and human welfare in a changing 

 world environment. 



From May through August of 1967, the Daddano subcommittee 

 held hearings on the Miller resolution. Dr. Revelle sounded the 

 keynote on May 9 with these words: 



In our times of unprecedented change, biologists arc aware of the rapidly growing 

 ability of their fellow human beings to alter the face of the earth through technology. 

 But they are equally aware that these alterations can bring about far-spreading and 

 often destructive changes in the web of life that is stretched so thinly over the surface 

 of our planet. 



In its report critically evaluating the program, the Daddario 

 subcommittee in March of 1968 noted that the functions and operations 

 of the IBP stood on shaky ground, organizationally and financially. 

 Even so, the subcommittee urged that the Nation contribute to the 

 program because of the urgency of improved ecological knowledge and 

 the belief that the organizational structure could be improved. The 

 leadership of the IBP responded to the subcommittee's suggestions, 

 and focused the scope of the program on many of the pressing prob- 

 lems the subcommittee had emphasized. In 1967 and again in 1969, 

 Chairmen Miller and Daddario introduced joint resolutions authoriz- 

 ing the transfer of funds from Federal agencies for the support of the 

 IBP. On October 7, 1970, the President signed the joint resolution 

 which had cleared Congress. 



Leland Haworth, Director of the National Science Foundation, 

 noted in a June 30, 1978, letter to Chairman Teague that the Daddario 

 subcommittee hearings on IBP "helped clarify the nature of the pro- 



