published annually in Federal Funds for Science. In addition to statistical 

 surveys of the volume of research and development, the Foundation is also 

 engaged in analytical studies of the close relationship that exists between 

 research and development and the economy in order to achieve a fuller under- 

 standing of the effects of research and development on various economic and 

 industrial activities. The whole effort carries out the directive in the Execu- 

 tive Order "to make comprehensive studies and recommendations regarding 

 the Nation's research effort and its resources for scientific activities. . . ." 



A final word about the Foundation's budget is perhaps of interest. The fol- 

 lowing table summarizes Dr. Bush's projected budget for the National Re- 

 search Foundation and the National Science Foundation's actual appropria- 

 tion for its fifth operating year, fiscal year 1956; 1952 was the first year for 

 which operating funds ($3.5 million) were appropriated for the Foundation 

 by Congress. 



(millions of dollars) 



■^ Except for the "other" category, these were the activities enumerated by Dr. Bush in 

 his projected budget for the Foundation. 



= Fiscal year 1956 data from The Budget of the United States, 1956, p. 159. In fiscal 

 year 1960 the Foundation's total adjusted appropriation amounts to $154.8 million. 

 The total of $159.2 million, shown here, includes $4.4 million carried forward from 

 fiscal year 1959. See part 3, Hearings before the Suhccnnnnttee on Appropriations, 

 House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session, Independent 

 Offices Appropriations for 1961, for further details on program activities. 



■ Funds administered by the Foundation's Biological and Medical Sciences Division are 

 included in the total shown for the Division of Natural Sciences. This total also 

 includes grants for the social sciences. 



' Scientific information program activities are administered in the Foundation by the 

 Office of Science Information Service. 



"^Includes funds for facilities, other program activities, and all adjustments. 



A glance at the chart indicates that by the end of the fifth year the Foun- 

 dation was operating at a level fifty per cent lower than that recommended 

 b\- Dr. Bush for the first year. By the fifth year the National Science Founda- 

 tion was operating at about thirteen per cent of the level suggested by Dr. 

 Bush for that year. By 1960, however, the Foundation's appropriation for all 

 activities was $159,200,000, almost ten times the 1956 level. 



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