Resolutions Passed i:v the Council 117 



This Association, with a membership of over eighteen thousand and representative of 

 all the sciences of nature and of man, is confident that a fully informed public will not 

 support legislation which would seriously interfere with the progress of preventive and 

 curative medicine. 



Resolution on Science and Society 



. Idopted by the Council, December so, 1937 



Whereas, Science and its applications are not only transforming the physical and 

 mental environment of men but are adding greatly to the complexities of their social, 

 economic and political relations ; and 



Whereas, Science is wholly independent of national boundaries and races and creeds 

 and can flourish permanently only where there is peace and intellectual freedom; now 



Therefore, Be it resolved by the Council on this 30th day of December, 1937, that 

 the American Association for the Advancement of Science makes as one of its objec- 

 tives an examination of the profound effects of science upon society ; and that the Asso- 

 ciation extends to its prototype, the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, and to all other scientific organizations with similar aims throughout the 

 world, an invitation to cooperate not only in advancing the interests of science but also 

 in promoting peace among nations and intellectual freedom in order that science may 

 continue to advance and to spread more abundantly its benefits to all mankind. 



Resolution on the Cooperation of Industries and Industrial 

 Laboratories with Other Laboratories and Research 



Organizations 



Adopted by the Executive Committee by Authority of the Council, June 27, 103S 



Resolved, That, in order to bring industries and industrial laboratories into closer 

 relations with other laboratories and research organizations for the purpose of ad- 

 vancing the interests of science, the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science now formulates and adopts the following plan : 



The Association, upon recommendation of its Executive Committee and approval by 

 its Council, will accept and administer funds given in support of specific researches in 

 designated laboratories or research organizations, under the condition that, if the in- 

 vestigations supported by the funds shall lead to patentable inventions or discoveries, 

 the investigators shall take out and assign to the Association patents on the inventions 

 or discoveries at the expense of the respective donors of the funds ; and the Association 

 will either assign the patent subject to usual and reasonable royalties, to the donor of 

 the funds (or grant the donor of the funds an exclusive license under the patent or 

 patents), subject to usual and reasonable royalties, (such exclusive license to be in no 

 case for a period of less than three years from date on which the patent is granted or 

 the product is marketed, whichever is the later date.) The Association will use any 

 royalties so received in the support of such research as it may determine, and it reserves 

 the right to waive the royalties whenever it deems such action to be in the public interest 

 in the use of the products or processes covered by the patents which it assigns. 



