Dr. J. B. Conant, president of Harvard University; chairman of the National 



Defense Research Committee. 

 Dr. Watson Davis, editor and director of Science Service. 

 Dr. R. E. Dohertv, president of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. 

 Dr. Paul E. Elicker, executive secretary, National Association of Secondary 



School Principals. 

 Mr. Farnham P. Griffiths, lawyer, San Francisco. 

 Dr. W. S. Hunter, professor of psychology at Brown University. 

 Dr. T. R. McConnell, dean of the College of Science, Literature, and Arts 



at the Universitv of Minnesota. 

 Mr. Walter S. Rogers, director of the Institute of Current World Affairs. 

 Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory. 

 Dr. Hugh S. Taylor, dean of the Graduate School, Princeton University. 

 Dr. E. B. Wilson, professor of vital statistics. Harvard Universitv School of 



Public Health. 



Question 



"What can be done, consistent with military security, and with the prior 

 approval of the military authorities, to make known to the world as soon as 

 possible the contributions which have been made during our war eflfort to 

 scientific knowledge"?" 



Committee 



Dr. lr\'in Stewart, chairman; executive secretary of the Office of Scientific 

 Research and Development; director of the Committee on Scientific Aids 

 to Learning of the National Research Council. 



Mr. Cleveland Norcross, secretary; executive assistant to the executive sec- 

 retary of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. 



Dr. 1. P. Baxter III, president of Williams College; historian of the Office 

 of Scientific Research and Development. 



Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology; chairman of the Research Board for National Security; member 

 of the National Defense Research Committee. 



Dr. 1. B. Conant, president of Harvard University; chairman of the National 

 Defense Research Committee. 



Dr. A. N. Richards, vice president of the University of Pennsylvania in 

 charge of Medical Affairs; chairman of the Committee on Medical Re- 

 search of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. 



Dr. M. A. Tuve, director, applied physics laboratory, Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versitv; staff member of the department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Mr. Carroll L. Wilson, executive assistant to the Director of the Office of 

 Scientific Research and Development. 



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