INDEX 



Abstracting services. See Libraries; Refer- 

 ence aids. 



Adams, John Quincy, support of ideas for 

 Government-sponsored academy, 84. 



Air conditioning, 10. 



Air Force, development of basic research 

 programs by, xiii. See also Armed 

 services; Military services. 



Advisory Board. 

 Board. 



See Science Advisory Airborne infections, 53. 



Advisory committees, recommended for 

 each Government bureau engaged in 

 scientific work, 105-106. 



Aerodynamics, future progress in, to be 

 striking, 78. 



Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Senate 

 Committee on, viii. 



Aeronautics. See National Advisory Com- 

 mittee for Aeronautics; National 

 Aeronautics and Space Council; Sci- 

 ence and Astronautics, House Com- 

 mittee on. 



AFL-CIO, conference on "Labor and Sci- 

 ence in a Changing World," xi. 



Agassiz, Louis, 83. 



Agricultural experiment stations, 86, notes 

 4 and 5. 



Agricultural schools, growth of, as factor 

 in applied research, 90. 



Agriculture: Federal aid to research in, 

 through land-grant colleges, 9, 22, 79; 

 advances based on scientific research, 

 10, 11, 12; subject of study by the 

 Bowman Committee, 73; distribution 

 of undergraduate degrees among al- 

 lied fields and, 177; Ph.D. degrees 

 in, 177, 178. 



Agriculture, Department of: Federal funds 

 obligations for basic research by, xxv; 

 interest in scientific research, 31-32, 

 83; establishment of, 84. 



Allies: continued scientific training by, 

 during World War II, 159; need for 

 agreement with, on release of war- 

 time-developed scientific data, 191. 



Altitudes, development of devices to com- 

 bat effects of, on airmen, 53. 



Alumni associations, as inadequate source 

 of medical research funds, 58. 



American Association of Collegiate Regis- 

 trars, distribution made by, of under- 

 graduate degrees among academic and 

 professional fields, and of Ph.D. de- 

 grees by science fields, 177-178. 



American Council on Education, proposed 

 utilization of the Committee on Meas- 

 urement and Guidance of, in the 

 scholarship and fellowship program, 

 181. 



American Institute of Physics, calculations 

 by, on deficits of scientific and tech- 

 nological personnel, 158. 



American Universities, Association of: sur- 

 vey of universities and colleges ac- 

 credited by, on expenditures for scien- 

 tific research, 122 ff. 



American Youth Commission, socio-eco- 

 nomic study of students related to 

 school attendance, 172, 173. 



Anatomy: development of, basic to medical 

 progress, xi, 14, 56; analysis of re- 

 search in selected university depart- 

 ments of, 130; Ph.D. degrees in, 177; 

 See also Research, medical. 



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