otherwise eonneeted with the Government and not representative of any 

 special interest, who shoidd be known as National Research Foundation 

 Members, selected b\ the President on the basis of their interest in and 

 capacitv to promote the purposes of the Foundation. 



2. The terms of the Members should be, say, 4 vears, and no Member 

 should be eligible for immediate reappointment prox'ided he has served a 

 full 4-vear term. It should be arranged that the Members first appointed 

 ser\'e terms of such length that at least two Members are appointed each 

 succeeding year. 



3. The Members should serve without compensation but should be en- 

 titled to their expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. 



4. The Members should elect their own chairman annually. 



5. The chief executive oflicer of the Foundation should be a director 

 appointed by the Members. Subject to the direction and supervision of the 

 Foundation Members (acting as a board), the director should discharge all 

 the fiscal, legal, and administrative functions of the Foundation. The direc- 

 tor should receive a salary that is fully adequate to attract an outstanding 

 man to the post. 



6. There should be an administrative office responsible to the director to 

 handle in one place the fiscal, legal, personnel, and other similar admin- 

 istrative functions necessary to the accomplishment of the purposes of the 

 Foundation. 



7. With the exception of the director, the division members, and one 

 executive ofiicer appointed by the director to administer the affairs of each 

 division, all employees of the Foundation should be appointed under Civil 

 Service rcpulations. 



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III. Ormnization 



1. In order to accomplish the purposes of the Foundation, the Members 

 should establish several professional Divisions to be responsible to the Mem- 

 bers. At the outset these Divisions should be: 



a. Division of Medical Research. — The function of this Division should 



be to support medical research. 

 h. Division of Natural Sciences. — The function of this Division should 



be to support research in the physical and natural sciences. 



c. Division of National Defense. — It should be the function of this Divi- 

 sion to support long-range scientific research on military matters. 



d. Division of Scientific Personnel and Education. — It should be the func- 

 tion of this Division to support and to supervise the grant of scholar- 

 ships and fellowships in science. 



e. Division of Pid?lications and Scientific Collaboration. — This Division 

 should be charged with encouraging the publication of scientific knowl- 

 edge and promoting international exchange of scientific information. 



2. Each Division of the Foundation should be made up of at least five 

 members, appointed by the Members of the Foundation. In making such 

 appointments the Members should request and consider recommendations 

 from the National Academy of Sciences which should be asked to establish 

 a new National Research Foundation nominating committee in order to 



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