LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



June 4, 1945. 

 Dr. Vannevar Bush, 



Director, Office of Scientific Research and Development, 

 1530 P Street NW., Washington, D. C. 



Dear Dr. Bush: 



To assist you in making recommendations in response to President Roose- 

 velt's letter of November 17, 1944, you assigned consideration of the fourth 

 question in that letter to the following-named committee: 



Dr. Henry A. Barton, director, American Institute of Physics. 



Dr. C. Lalor Burdick, special assistant to the president, E. I. du Pont de 



Nemours & Co. 

 Dr. James B. Conant, ptesident, Harvard University. 

 Dr. Watson Davis, director, Science Service. 



Dr. Robert E. Doherty, president, Carnegie Institute of Technology. 

 Dr. Paul E. Elicker, executive secretary. National Association of Sec- 

 ondary School Principals. 

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

 Dr. W. S. Hunter, professor of psychologv. Brown University. 

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



University of Minnesota. 

 Mr. Henry Allen Moe, secretary general, John Simon Guggenheim 



Memorial Foundation. 

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

 Dr. Harlow Shapley, director. Harvard College Observatory. 

 Dr. Hugh S. Tavlor, dean of the graduate school, Princeton University. 

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

 of Public Health. 

 Mr. Henry Chauncey and Mr. Lawrence K. Frank are the committee's 

 secretaries. 



The committee held onlv two meetings, but there has been constant inter- 

 change of materials by mail and we have conferred frequentlv among our- 

 selves and with others. The report herewith presented is a joint effort and 

 it is agreed to, both as to content and form, by the whole committee. This 

 result has been arrived at, not by compromise, but by study of the relevant 

 facts in the light of the committee members' varied experience, and by dis- 

 cussion and agreement upon the conclusions to be drawn from those facts 

 in the light of our experience. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Henry Allen Moe, 

 Chairman, Committee on Discovery and 



Development of Scientific Talent. 



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