TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Foreword iii 



Introduction vii 



Letter of Transmittal 1 



President Roosevelt's Letter 3 



Summar\' of the Report 5 



Part One: Introduction: 



Scientific Progress is Essential 10 



Science is a Proper Concern of Go\ ernment 11 



Go\ernment Relations to Science — Past .md Future 11 



Freedom of Inquir\ Must be Preser\ ed 12 



Part Two: The \\\ir A^j^ainst Disease: 



In War 13 



In Peace 13 



Unsoh-ed Problems 14 



Broad and Basic Studies Needed 14 



Coordinated Attack on S|iccial Problems 14 



Action is Necessarx 15 



Part Three: Science mid the Piddic Welfare 



Relation to National Sccuiitx 17 



Science and lobs 18 



The Importance of Basic Research 18 



Centers of Basic Research 19 



Research W^ithin the Cio\ ernment 20 



Industrial Research 21 



International Exchange of Scicntidc Inlormation 22 



The Special Need for EedLial Sup[iort 22 



The Cost of a Program 22 



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