scholarship and fellowship program, 

 181. 



Carnegie Institution, 84, 86 note 6. 



Castle, William B., member, Medical Ad- 

 visory Committee, 43, 48. 



Census, 1940, population under 20 years 

 of age, 166; age and school attend- 

 ance, 166-167. 



Cerebral hemorrhage, 14, 55. 



Chauncey, Henry, asst. sec. Committee 

 on Discovery and Development of 

 Scientific Talent, 44, 136. 



Chemical companies, included in survey 

 of research in industrial laboratories, 

 133, note 2. 



Chemistry: development of, basic to medi- 

 cal progress, xi, 14, 56; development 

 of improved course content for teach- 

 ing, supported by NSF, xvii; future 

 progress to be striking in, 78; analysis 

 of research in, in universities, col- 

 leges, industrial research laboratories, 

 and nonprofit science institutes, 122- 

 134 passim; deficit in personnel 

 trained in, 158, 179; distribution of 

 undergraduate degrees in allied fields 

 and, 177; Ph.D. degrees in, 177; 

 graduate school enrollments in, 178. 



Chemotherapy, committee on, 53. 



Childhood, reduction in death rates in, 

 various diseases, 54-55. 



Cholera, 52, 53. 



Civil Service, establishment of excepted 

 category for scientific personnel, ix; 

 reforms needed in, for scientific per- 

 sonnel, 7, 101-104; regulations of, 

 to apply in proposed establishment of 

 National Research Foundation, 35; 

 separate branch of, recommended for 

 scientific and technical positions, 76; 

 up-grading of scientific positions rec- 

 ommended, 76. 



Civilian controls in military scientific re- 

 search, 33-34. 



Civilian participation in declassification 

 and publication of wartime scientific 

 research data, 29-30, 191. 



Coast and Geodetic Survey, establishment 

 of, 84. 



Coffey, Walter C, member. Committee on 

 Science and the Public Welfare, 

 44-72. 



Cold, common, 14, 55. 



College attendance and graduation, sta- 

 tistics and analyses concerning, 166- 

 176, passim. See also Tables. 



College enrollment, statistics from studies 

 in Indiana, Minnesota, and Pennsyl- 



vania on mental ability, high school 

 attendance and graduation, and on 

 college enrollment, related to socio- 

 economic groups, 144-145. 



College Entrance Examination Board, pro- 

 posed utilization of, in the scholarship 

 and fellowship program, 181. 



Colleges. See Universities and colleges. 



Colleges, small, scientific research in, 123- 

 124. 



Commerce, Department of: Federal funds 

 obligations for basic research by, xx\'; 

 interest in scientific research, 31-32. 



Commerce, Secretary of: study by, con- 

 cerning patent laws as they affect in- 

 dustrial research, 21. 



Committee, Medical Advisory', member- 

 ship, 43, 48; report by, 46-69. 



Committee on Discovery and Development 

 of Scientific Talent, membership, 44- 

 45, 136; report by, 135-185. 



Committee on Publication of Scientific 

 Infonnation, membership, 45, 188; 

 report by, 186-192. 



Committee on Science and the Public 

 Welfare, membership, 43-44, 72; re- 

 port by, 70-134. 



Committees consulted by Dr. Bush, 43-45. 



Communications company, included in 

 survey of research in industrial lab- 

 oratories, 133, note 2. 



Compton, Arthur H., quoted, on deficit of 

 trained scientific personnel, 159. 



Compton, Karl T., member. Committee on 

 Publication of Scientific Information, 

 45, 188. 



Conant, James B., statement by, on de- 

 velopment of scientific talent, 23; 

 member. Committee on Discovery' and 

 Development of Scientific Talent, 45, 

 1 36; member, Committee on Publica- 

 tion of Scientific Information, 45, 

 188; as chairman of the National De- 

 fense Research Committee, 144; 

 quoted, on future of science being 

 dependent upon national educational 

 policy, 144. 



Congress. See United States Congress. 



Contracts, research, need to waive certain 

 statutory and regulatory fiscal require- 

 ments, 38-39. See General Account- 

 ing Office. 



Convalescence, committee on, 53. 



Cooperative Test Service, proposed utiliza- 

 tion of, in the scholarship and fel- 

 lowship program, 181. 



Cox, Oscar S., member, Committee on 



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