Bowman Committee on — 

 Recommended creation of, policies, 

 functions, and basic structure of, as 

 Federal agency to promote science in 

 the interest of public welfare, 75, 

 115-117; recommendations concerning 

 relation to universities, 94-98; recom- 

 mendation that a proposed Science 

 Advisors' Board cooperate with, 106; 

 suggested responsibility of studying 

 technological development in indus- 

 try and of experimenting with meth- 

 ods of aid to industrial research, 107; 

 recommended power to make grants 

 to universities, engineering schools, 

 and nonprofit industrial research in- 

 stitutes, 108; proposed investigation 

 by, of advisability of Federal aid to 

 encourage new scientific enterprises 

 of applied-research nature, 109; rec- 

 ommended functions of, in interna- 

 tional scientific cooperation, 113-114; 

 proposed functions related to improve- 

 ment of library services, 118-121. 



See also National Science Founda- 

 tion; National Scientific Research 

 Foundation. 



National resources: 

 Dr. Bush on — 



Scientific progress related to conserva- 

 tion of, 10-11. 



Bowman Committee on — 

 Conservation of, as dependent upon 

 scientific progress, 74, 77; promotion 

 of research aimed at conservation and 

 better utilization of, as responsibility 

 of proposed National Research Foun- 

 dation, 116. 



Moe Co'mmittee on — 



Intelligence of citizenry included 



among, 137, 144. 



National Resources Committee, Resea^-ch 

 — A National Resotirce, 86, notes 2, 

 4; 100 and note 1. 



National Roster, inventory by, of graduate 

 students in nonprofessional and non- 

 vocational schools and departments, 

 by science and other fields, 178. 



National Science Board: convictions of, 

 concerning an undergraduate program 

 of scholarships, xvi; approval of estab- 

 lishing an Office of Social Sciences in 

 NSF, xx; high calibre of staff, xxi. 



National Science Foundation: Act of 1950 

 creating, vii, xiii; resume of accom- 

 plishments related to Dr. Bush's rec- 

 ommendations for a National Re- 

 search Foundation, vii-xxvi; establish- 

 ment of Division of Biological and 

 Medical Sciences, xi, xii; promotion 

 of international conferences by, xiv; 

 science attache program urged by. 



xiv; funds obligations of, compared 

 to Dr. Bush's proposals on funds re- 

 quirements, .xvi-xvii; support of re- 

 search directed at new approaches to 

 information problems and translation 

 techniques, xviii; scientific informa- 

 tion activity of, xviii-xix; establish- 

 ment of a Science Information Serv- 

 ice and a Science Information Coun- 

 cil, xviii, xix; highlights of early and 

 present organization, present func- 

 tions and relationships, and com- 

 parison with Dr. Bush's proposals, 

 xix-xxvi; relationships of the Director 

 with other Federal agencies and com- 

 mittees, xxii; annual report. Federal 

 Funds for Science, xxiii-xxiv; Federal 

 appropriations for, xxiv-xxvi. See also 

 National Research Foundation; Na- 

 tional Scientific Research Foundation. 



National science policy: need for, and 

 the National Research Foundation as 

 focal point for development of, in 

 Dr. Bush's recommendation, vii, 12, 

 31, 34; active growth of, since 1950, 

 vii-xxvi, passim; role of NSF in, xxii- 

 xxiv; NSF compilations on, xxiii. 



National Science Reserve: 

 Dr. Bush on — 

 Proposals for, 27. 



Moe Committee on — 

 Proposed establishment of, and rec- 

 ommendation that recipients of sci- 

 ence scholarships and fellowships be 

 enrolled in, 138, 153-154; to include 

 veterans trained under the G. I. Bill, 

 163; suggested administrative organi- 

 zation, bases of selection, and pro- 

 cedures for selection of scholars and 

 fellows, 180-185. 



National Scientific Research Foundation: 

 proposed establishment of, and func- 

 tions in the program for discovery 

 and development of talent, 180-185, 

 passim. See also National Research 

 Foundation. 



National security: 

 Dr. Bush on — 



Scientific progress essential to, 5; 

 need for civilian-controlled organiza- 

 tion, in liaison with Army and Navy, 

 with appropriated funds to initiate 

 military research, 6; scientific research 

 related to, 17-18. 



Bowman Comm,ittee on — 

 Scientific progress essential to, 74, 77. 



Stewart Committee on — 



Release of wartime-acquired scientific 



information related to, 190. 



See also National defense; Research 

 Board for National Security; Re- 

 search, military. 



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